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Confluence transforms how teams everywhere work by getting everyone on the same page. As a Program Manager on the Confluence team, you will directly impact this mission by partnering closely with our leadership teams to bring our strategies to life - driving and executing on key top priority programs that span multiple teams.

In this role, you will understand the 'why' behind strategic plans and help Confluence teams understand their alignment to the bigger picture and coordinate work to execute on them. You will guide reporting mechanisms, craft communications for various audiences (including executives), set processes for cross team projects, and/or jump into a team to help connect and unblock teams. You are a center of team spirit, and you craft and implement pathways to up-level the team.

Confluence’s success is instrumental for Atlassian to hit its business goals and OKRs and you will have a direct hand in this. Does this sound exciting to you? Then you might be the person we're looking for.

In this role, you'll get to:

• Ensure the Confluence leadership teams are planning, setting the right goals, and executing on those goals effectively with good tracking and reporting methods.
• Champion and cultivate cross-team relationships to coordinate and manage dependencies.
• Run and report on key strategic projects (ranging from technical delivery and analytical deep dives to operational efficiencies).
• Be a trusted partner to R&D practices across product, engineering, and design to facilitate prioritization and trade-offs.
• Apply healthy project management methodologies to projects across Confluence, focusing on partner engagement, dependency management and risk & issue management.
• Coordinate work “on the team” such as team health exercises, decision-making plays, and org size/shape assessment. Lead strategic off-sites and associated planning rituals.

About you:

• You are an excellent collaborator and communicator that can expertly inspire change across teams.
• You have a track record of setting appropriate expectations, crisp execution, and timely delivery.
• You are familiar with Agile methodologies and are able to draw upon best practices, patterns and agile frameworks to build pathways for autonomous, empowered, and lasting teams for a Future Atlassian.
• You thrive in ambiguous, complex, challenging and/or changing environments.
• You are able to prioritize and ask the right questions.
• You are attentive to detail and meticulously organized.
• You know when to run with something on your own and when to bring in additional help.
• You promote a healthy decision making culture and identify when it is appropriate to escalate.
• You are able to effectively and collaboratively identify and synchronize project interdependencies across multiple teams, and navigate risks and change along the way.
• You have the ability to balance priorities among the long-term vision and short-term execution strategy.
• You’re a coach, a facilitator and a multiplier, passionate about software product teams, with a focus on teamwork and how we can work better together.

On your first day, we'll expect you to have:

• 5+ years of relevant professional experience working with product, engineering, design and related functions.
• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Business, Computer Science or related field (or equivalent experience).
• You fully understand the software development lifecycle and ensure teams are driving toward delivery of high quality, operationally sound products and services.

It's great, but not required if you have:

• Experience working on programs with web and mobile applications, microservices and relational and non-relational databases.
• Experience working with remote, global, and cross-functional teams and matrix organizations, and an understanding of SaaS business models and enterprise sales.

More about our team

We are a team on a mission to ensure that R&D can successfully scale. Specifically, R&D Program Managers at Atlassian build trusted networks, seek clarity, and serve as the grease and the glue to ensure teams deliver complex cross-functional programs as seamlessly as single team projects. Our impact is amplified beyond delivery through our work to advance the program management craft. We band together to develop and apply practices, patterns (plays), and agile frameworks to build pathways for autonomous, empowered, and lasting teams for a Future Atlassian.

More about our benefits

Whether you work in an office or a distributed team, Atlassian is highly collaborative and yes, fun! To support you at work (and play) we offer some fantastic perks: ample time off to relax and recharge, flexible working options, five paid volunteer days a year for your favourite cause, an annual allowance to support your learning & growth, unique ShipIt days, a company paid trip after five years and lots more.

More about Atlassian

Creating software that empowers everyone from small startups to the who’s who of tech is why we’re here. We build tools like Jira, Confluence, Bitbucket, and Trello to help teams across the world become more nimble, creative, and aligned—collaboration is the heart of every product we dream of at Atlassian. From Amsterdam and Austin, to Sydney and San Francisco, we’re looking for people who want to write the future and who believe that we can accomplish so much more together than apart. At Atlassian, we’re committed to an environment where everyone has the autonomy and freedom to thrive, as well as the support of like-minded colleagues who are motivated by a common goal to: Unleash the potential of every team.

Additional Information

We believe that the unique contributions of all Atlassians is the driver of our success. To make sure that our products and culture continue to incorporate everyone's perspectives and experience we never discriminate on the basis of race, religion, national origin, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, age, or marital, veteran, or disability status.

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.

If your experience looks a little different from what we’ve identified and you think you can rock the role, we’d love to learn more about you.

Learn more about Atlassian’s culture, interviewing flow, and hiring process by checking out our Candidate Resource Hub.