Head of Strategy and Business Operations
Working at Atlassian
Atlassian can hire people in any country where we have a legal entity. Assuming you have eligible working rights and a sufficient time zone overlap with your team, you can choose to work remotely or return to an office as they reopen (unless it's necessary for your role to be performed in the office). Interviews and onboarding are conducted virtually, a part of being a distributed-first company.
Atlassian is seeking a Head of Strategy and Business Operations (SBO) to a) drive our long-term company strategy, from product/go to market (GTM) strategy to building a multi-year vision with our co-founders and executive team, leading to annual OKRs b) re-envision our company operating system, planning and review and scale-up our capability to drive a $10bn+ revenue company and c) build a diverse, high performing, world-class team that embodies a supportive, values-driven culture.
In this role, you will partner with the core leaders across our executive, R&D leadership, operations, and finance teams. You will have a unique seat on our Product Leadership committee and drive cross-functional initiatives, hence will be expected to have well defined points of view, spar with our exec team and challenge us to rethink how we operate.
You will lead a team that is passionate about delivering high stakeholder impact and hence partners deeply with our business leaders across R&D and GTM. Team building and mentorship will be expected from you - SBO is a team we will continue to invest in as Atlassian grows.
You will be instrumental in paving the way forward for Atlassian to achieve scale that few software companies have realized: $10bn in revenue, 100m in MAU. We think long-term as a company and want you to challenge us on how to drive towards these long-term goals and accomplishing our mission.
In this role, you'll get to:
- Formulate and present critical strategy recommendations to Atlassian's executive team, including our CEOs and the rest of C-suite
- Manage and develop a growing team of 40+ SBO managers and associates
- Partner directly with Atlassian's product leadership team to help Atlassian achieve its goal of reaching 100M MAU (unheard of in enterprise SaaS!)
- Iterate and drive the business cadence, including weekly, monthly, quarterly and annual business reviews to set, up-level, and create accountability to company OKRs and long-term goals.
- Monitor, measure and assess how critical initiatives and investments are performing and delivering results for the company
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams, including product, marketing, sales, analytics, finance, and other teams
On your first day, we'll expect you to have:
- Extensive experience in high growth software / tech industry, consulting, investment banking / venture capital, buy-side investment
- Empowerment - Experience building and leading large, distributed teams; and building on a values-based culture
- Mentor, coach and empower a group of highly intellectual, performance driven individuals and maximize their individual potential towards an even better collective sum
- Strong business acumen and experience with different GTM models (Product-led-growth a plus, but not required)
- Strong leadership and communication skills - written and verbal -- to work with CxOs across various geographies and functions; proficient with business and technical discussions
- Strong analytical skills - ability to analyze data, derive key insights, diagnose business issues, and craft strategic outcomes
- Passion for learning and innovation - build new methodologies and techniques to tackle business problems and attain a higher level of leadership responsibilities within the company
- MBA or advanced technical degree a strong plus
More about our team
The Strategy & Business Operations team is a high-impact and visible team that works closely with product & business leaders across the company. Atlassian is at a pivotal moment in our trajectory as a company. We see our potential to grow into both a $10bn+ revenue software industry leader. We make decisions through our values, and take an agile, iterative, and open approach to each decision we make. We are passionate about our mission, to unleash the potential of any team, and the potential for positive impact realizing that mission can have for users and customers.
Our perks & benefits
To support you at work and play, our perks and benefits include ample time off, an annual education budget, paid volunteer days, and so much more.
About Atlassian
The world's best teams work better together with Atlassian. From medicine and space travel, to disaster response and pizza deliveries, Atlassian software products help teams all over the planet. At Atlassian, we're motivated by a common goal: to unleash the potential of every team .
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