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Senior Principal Technical Program Manager

Posted Yesterday
In-Office or Remote
Hiring Remotely in Seattle, WA
196K-308K Annually
Senior level
In-Office or Remote
Hiring Remotely in Seattle, WA
196K-308K Annually
Senior level
Lead complex technical programs spanning platform and product components. Define long-term strategies, roadmaps, technical objectives, and action plans; translate business needs into prioritized systems problems; influence engineers and architects; manage dependencies, budgets, schedules, forecasting, and end-to-end program lifecycles. Programs may involve agentic platforms, machine learning, enterprise search, conversational AI, reliability, performance, and enterprise readiness.
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  • Analyze business objectives, customer needs, product adoption inhibitors and opportunities, industry trends, and based on these, in close collaboration with your stakeholders, define a long-term strategy and roadmap for your platform and product components.
  • Understand business objectives and translate them into technical systems problems that need to be prioritized solved in the current business environment.
  • Define specific systems programs and create a plan of action for realizing those programs. Such programs could be around agentic platforms, machine learning systems, enterprise search, conversational AI, performance optimization, reliability improvements, enterprise grade readiness and more.
  • Use your technical understanding of Atlassian and related systems to partner with and influence engineers and architects in making progress on these problems.
  • Responsible for taking a systematic approach to engineering problems. This includes: prioritizing tasks, scoping out the project, defining objectives, and making consistent progress against each of these.
  • Be accountable for the success of these technical programs by managing the entire lifecycle from initiation to forecasting, budgeting, scheduling, etc.
  • Manage complex dependencies and projects with a broad scope across the company

At Atlassian, we strive to design equitable, explainable, and competitive compensation programs. We follow consistent hiring practices and account for each candidate's skills, knowledge, and experience when setting base pay within the range.
Please visit go.atlassian.com/payzones for more information on which locations are included in each of our geographic pay zones. However, please confirm the zone for your specific location with your recruiter.
This role may also be eligible for benefits, bonuses, commissions, and equity.
In The United States, we have three geographic pay zones. For this role, our current base pay ranges for new hires in each zone are:
Zone A: $235,800 - $307,850
Zone B: $212,220 - $277,065
Zone C: $195,714 - $255,516
Minimum Qualifications
  • 12+ years of experience on software teams as Development Manager or Technical Program Manager
  • Strategic thinking and ability to understand business objectives to translate them into technical problems and programs
  • Proven technical understanding of systems involved
  • Willingness to develop deep domain expertise in the area they operate
  • TPMs are not expected to write or read code, but are expected to understand system flows, block architectures, APIs and such
  • Experience defining and running end-to-end complex technical programs
  • Strong leadership, organizational, and communication skills

Additional Desired Experiences
  • Deep familiarity in Conversational & Generative AI and/or Enterprise Search technologies
  • Proven technical excellence in building and shipping agentic platforms and workflows

Benefits & Perks
Atlassian offers a wide range of perks and benefits designed to support you, your family and to help you engage with your local community. Our offerings include health and wellbeing resources, paid volunteer days, and so much more. To learn more, visit go.atlassian.com/perksandbenefits .
About Atlassian
At Atlassian, we're motivated by a common goal: to unleash the potential of every team. Our software products help teams all over the planet and our solutions are designed for all types of work. Team collaboration through our tools makes what may be impossible alone, possible together.
We believe that the unique contributions of all Atlassians create our success. To ensure that our products and culture continue to incorporate everyone's perspectives and experience, we never discriminate based on 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.
To provide you the best experience, we can support with accommodations or adjustments at any stage of the recruitment process. Simply inform our Recruitment team during your conversation with them.
To learn more about our culture and hiring process, visit go.atlassian.com/crh .
In line with local law, identity verification (which may include use of biometric data) is a condition of employment with Atlassian for employment fraud purposes.

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