Serve as the commercial specialist in Professional Services to drive demand, shape services engagements, lead consultative discovery, manage the services sales cycle, develop account-level strategies, collaborate cross-functionally, influence complex enterprise opportunities, and own services bookings and pipeline targets.
Atlassian Professional Services helps customers maximize the value of their Atlassian investment by delivering outcome-based solutions that accelerate adoption, reduce implementation risk, and enable long-term business success through the Atlassian System of Work.
As the commercial specialist within Professional Services, the Services Solutions Advocate (SSA) drives demand for professional services by partnering with customers to shape the right services engagement for their business needs. Working closely with Atlassian Sales, the SSA helps customers understand their business objectives and recommends the services engagement and delivery model best suited to achieve them, including when to engage the Atlassian Partner Ecosystem.
As a trusted advisor, the SSA works with business and technical decision makers to identify customer priorities, navigate complex opportunities, and align services solutions to customer goals. In doing so, the SSA balances customer value, commercial priorities, and delivery considerations to help customers achieve successful business outcomes.
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.
This role may also be eligible for benefits, bonuses, commissions, and equity.
Knowledge & Skills
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.
As the commercial specialist within Professional Services, the Services Solutions Advocate (SSA) drives demand for professional services by partnering with customers to shape the right services engagement for their business needs. Working closely with Atlassian Sales, the SSA helps customers understand their business objectives and recommends the services engagement and delivery model best suited to achieve them, including when to engage the Atlassian Partner Ecosystem.
As a trusted advisor, the SSA works with business and technical decision makers to identify customer priorities, navigate complex opportunities, and align services solutions to customer goals. In doing so, the SSA balances customer value, commercial priorities, and delivery considerations to help customers achieve successful business outcomes.
- Generate and influence professional services pipeline by identifying customer needs, shaping services opportunities, and creating demand throughout the sales cycle
- Lead consultative discovery to understand customer priorities, business objectives, and organizational challenges
- Lead the services sales cycle from discovery through commercial recommendations, and facilitating the handover to delivery upon deal close
- Shape customer-specific services engagements by aligning business objectives with the most appropriate services approach and engagement model
- Develop account-level services strategies in partnership with Atlassian Sales to identify expansion opportunities ad maximize customer value
- Bring together cross-functional stakeholders across Atlassian Sales, Professional Services, Customer Success, and the Atlassian Partner Ecosystem to shape the services engagement that best supports customer outcomes
- Influence complex enterprise opportunities by balancing customer outcomes, commercial priorities, and delivery expectations
- Own a professional services sales target by delivering services bookings, pipeline growth, forecast accuracy and opportunity management
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.
This role may also be eligible for benefits, bonuses, commissions, and equity.
- 5+ years of experience in professional services sales, enterprise solution sales, or consultative enterprise software sales
- Demonstrated success meeting or exceeding sales targets and closing complex, consultative opportunities
- Experience generating pipeline, developing account-level opportunity strategies, and maintaining accurate forecasts
- Experience leading discovery and engaging business, technical, and executive stakeholders
- Proven ability to influence cross-functional teams and navigate complex enterprise sales cycles
- Experience with the Atlassian ecosystem or enterprise software solutions
- Fluency in German and English, both written and verbal, is required
Knowledge & Skills
- Understanding of Atlassian products, including Jira and Confluence, with familiarity across Enterprise Agility, ITSM, DevOps, and Cloud transformation
- Experience selling professional services or other outcome-based services within enterprise software organizations
- Strong discovery, consultative selling, negotiation, and commercial acumen
- Ability to translate business objectives into customer specific services recommendations
- Excellent executive communication, relationship management, and cross-functional collaboration skills
- Ability to influence without authority across customer, sales, and cross-functional stakeholders
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.
Atlassian Chicago, Illinois, USA Office
Chicago, IL, United States
Similar Jobs at Atlassian
Cloud • Information Technology • Productivity • Security • Software • App development • Automation
Manage mid-market renewals to maximize retention and identify expansion opportunities. Lead renewal negotiations across products and partners, maintain pipeline and CRM activity, communicate product updates, and collaborate with sales and customer success to mitigate churn.
Cloud • Information Technology • Productivity • Security • Software • App development • Automation
Lead and coordinate solutions engineering programs: manage cross-functional projects, stakeholder communication, delivery timelines, process improvements, and success metrics to ensure scalable technical solution deployment.
Cloud • Information Technology • Productivity • Security • Software • App development • Automation
Drive enterprise sales in the DACH region by developing territory and account plans, engaging C-level stakeholders, negotiating complex contracts, collaborating with internal teams (channel, product, customer success), forecasting, and closing strategic deals to expand Atlassian product adoption and ensure customer success.
Top Skills:
CRM
What you need to know about the Chicago Tech Scene
With vibrant neighborhoods, great food and more affordable housing than either coast, Chicago might be the most liveable major tech hub. It is the birthplace of modern commodities and futures trading, a national hub for logistics and commerce, and home to the American Medical Association and the American Bar Association. This diverse blend of industry influences has helped Chicago emerge as a major player in verticals like fintech, biotechnology, legal tech, e-commerce and logistics technology. It’s also a major hiring center for tech companies on both coasts.
Key Facts About Chicago Tech
- Number of Tech Workers: 245,800; 5.2% of overall workforce (2024 CompTIA survey)
- Major Tech Employers: McDonald’s, John Deere, Boeing, Morningstar
- Key Industries: Artificial intelligence, biotechnology, fintech, software, logistics technology
- Funding Landscape: $2.5 billion in venture capital funding in 2024 (Pitchbook)
- Notable Investors: Pritzker Group Venture Capital, Arch Venture Partners, MATH Venture Partners, Jump Capital, Hyde Park Venture Partners
- Research Centers and Universities: Northwestern University, University of Chicago, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Illinois Institute of Technology, Argonne National Laboratory, Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory

