Atlassian · 3 hours ago
Principal Technical Program Manager - Search and AI
Seattle, WA
Full-time
Hybrid
Lead/Staff
$201K/yr - $262K/yr
8+ years expAtlassian is a company that focuses on unleashing the potential of every team through innovative software products. They are seeking a Principal Technical Program Manager to lead the development of AI and Search platforms, collaborating with engineering teams to define strategies and manage complex technical programs.
CollaborationEnterprise SoftwareSaaSSoftware
Responsibilities
Understand and stay up-to-date on latest innovations in AI and Search. Partner closely with engineering teams to translate these into practical platform evolution for Atlassian bringing value to our customers
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 capacity planning, migration efforts, high availability, network architecture, performance optimization, reliability improvements 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
Qualification
Required
8+ years of experience on software teams as Development Manager, Technical Product Manager or TPM leading technical platforms areas
Deep domain experience in AI and/or Search. Example: Model Inference, Model Evaluation, Model Training, LLM Ops, Semantic Search, Search Relevance, Search Indexing, etc
Partner with Engineering in defining direction, strategy and execution at Platform level
Strategic thinking and ability to understand business objectives to translate them into technical problems and programs
Technical understanding of systems involved. Willingness to develop domain expertise in the area they operate - storage, networking, authentication, capacity management, service deployments, etc
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
Preferred
A B.S. in Software Engineering, Computer Science, or Technical Discipline
(Hiring Manager to add here any specific skills or experience they require for a given position)
Benefits
Health and wellbeing resources
Paid volunteer days
Company
Atlassian
Atlassian is a software company that offers proprietary software products for teamwork, project management, and software development.
10001+ employees
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Funding
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Public CompanyTotal Funding
$210MKey Investors
T. Rowe PriceAccel
2015-12-10IPO
2014-04-08Secondary Market· $150M
2010-07-14Series A· $60M
Leadership Team
Michael Cannon-Brookes
CEO and Co-Founder
Scott Farquhar
Co-Founder and Board Member
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