Atlassian products are used and loved by millions of users worldwide to drive innovation - be it outstanding software, electric cars, spaceships or robotic surgeries. Atlassian fuels the best teams to build products better and faster with world-class products like Jira, Trello, Confluence, Bitbucket and more. Atlassian's can choose where they work – whether in an office, from home, or a combination of the two. That way, Atlassian's have more control over supporting their family, personal goals, and other priorities. We can hire people in any country where we have a legal entity. Interviews and onboarding are conducted virtually, a part of being a distributed-first company.
The Role:We're Hiring a Chief Of Staff (CoS), to Support our Head of Product for Work Management for All. Our Work Management products, including Confluence, Loom, and Trello, empower all teams within organizations to effectively plan, track, communicate, and collaborate both within and across their teams. The primary objective is to enhance our customers' efficiency in teamwork while minimizing unnecessary tasks. The goal is to enhance our customers' efficiency and collaboration while minimizing unnecessary tasks.
As Chief Of Staff (CoS), your role is critical - you will help to unlock new opportunities and act as an advisor and force multiplier for our ambitious growth objectives. You will provide strategic support in managing day-to-day operations, drive cross-functional alignment, and foster effective decision-making. You will serve as a trusted advisor and proxy to our Head of Product, collaborating closely with other functional leaders and senior executives across design, engineering, sales, and product marketing. This position will be responsible for enabling seamless communication, orchestrating key initiatives, and ensuring successful execution.
This role necessitates leadership skills, organization , written and verbal communication, strategic thinking, and the capacity to excel in a fast-paced, dynamic environment.
Some of the great work you will do:
Strategic Support: Collaborate with the Head of Product and executive team to define and execute Atlassian's strategic goals and initiatives, ensuring alignment across the organization. Assist with facilitating key business meetings and staying on-top of org-wide initiatives.
Operations Optimization: Streamline operational processes, identify opportunities for efficiency gains, and drive effective resource allocation to enhance overall productivity. Identify areas for opportunity and set up operations, systems and teams when necessary.
Cross-functional Collaboration: Facilitate collaboration and communication among different departments and teams, bridging gaps and fostering alignment. Stay Ultimately fostering a culture of transparency and shared goals.
Project Management: Directing strategic business initiatives from development through successful execution, overseeing timelines, milestones, and deliverables to ensure successful outcomes.
Executive Leader: Manage initiatives on behalf of the leader and team, echoing key priorities and planning action on next steps. Attend meetings, take notes and help prioritize to execute executive vision.
Your background:We don’t expect you to be able to tick every box. We prioritize culture and values fit above everything. If you tick a couple of the below boxes, great! Throw your hat in the ring and let’s go from there:
Solutions oriented leader with demonstrated success in leading high-impact, cross-functional programs in fast-growing organizations.
Experience turning strategy into executable plans and driving high visibility projects.
Experience diagnosing pain points and collaborating to provide solutions and actions that allow us to move forward on a common goal.
Success leading without influence, earning trust with key stakeholders and serving as a proxy to augment the leader with the single purpose of making the TEAM successful.
Relationship Manager, with an ability to navigate several organizations and leaders, bridging gaps and fostering collaboration.
An analytic prowess, drive to support decisions with data, and the ability to make data digestible to varied audiences.
Experience communicating complex concepts to a variety of audiences, connecting dots and people, and capturing and sharing important messages.
Qualifications
10+ years of relevant work experience in program management, operations, product management, or business strategy is required, including at least 1 year in a Chief of Staff role.
Exceptional verbal, written, and facilitation skills, with experience in conducting meetings and interacting with an executive audience.
This is a remote position, however to help our teams work together effectively, this role requires you to be located in the Pacific time zone.
Compensation
At Atlassian, we strive to design equitable, explainable, and competitive compensation programs. To support this goal, the baseline of our range is higher than that of the typical market range, but in turn we expect to hire most candidates near this baseline. Base pay within the range is ultimately determined by a candidate's skills, expertise, or experience. 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: $231,500 - $308,600
Zone B: $208,300 - $277,800
Zone C: $192,100 - $256,200
This role may also be eligible for benefits, bonuses, commissions, and equity.
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.
More about our benefits
Whether you want to 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.
Atlassian is committed to providing reasonable accommodations to all individuals participating in the application and interview process, and while performing job functions. Please note that you will have the opportunity to request accommodations at each stage of the assessment process. To request accommodations before scheduling an interview, please reach out to atlassian-accommodations@atlassian.com and someone will follow up shortly.
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.
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