Program Manager - Jira Product Discovery

Working at AtlassianAtlassian 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.This role is a Program Manager position focused on Jira Product Discovery (JPD), one of Atlassian’s new products. This Program Manager role is a unique opportunity to work with a fast moving team that is growing quickly. You’ll be the lead program manager on this product, giving you the opportunity to have broad impact across product, engineering, and go to market. At the same, time you’ll be able to leverage the resources, brand, and scale of a global Fortune 100 company.As the ideal Program Manager, you are a dynamic individual who champions delivery excellence, thrives in making order out of moving parts and understands the importance of the teamwork it takes to make programs successful. Alongside colleagues in the JPD team, you will develop and apply practices, plays, and agile frameworks to ensure successful program delivery. Do you enjoy creating over operating, but also bring organization & structure where needed? Then this job could be for you!

You will:

• Apply good program management discipline to programs across the team, focusing on building plans, stakeholder engagement, communication and reporting, dependency management, and risk & issue.
• Work with delivery teams to help ensure they are planning, setting the right goals, and executing on those goals effectively with good tracking and reporting methods.
• For new programs, bring together the program contributors and drivers to scope and kick-off a program of work.
• Lead quarterly planning and resourcing for the JPD team. Work with team to understand resourcing needs, why the resource is needed, impact it will have to the business and priority of needs.
• Facilitate discussions between product and engineering disciplines to drive prioritisation and trade-offs.
• Work closely with business and technical stakeholders to understand and translate business requirements into technical requirements.
• Identify areas where programs or processes are needed across the team, and work with the wider Program Management team to implement solutions for these programs.

About you:

• You thrive in ambiguity and can bring order to chaos.
• You are attentive to detail and meticulously organized.
• You proactively create new relationships where needed to bridge teams together.
• You are able to effectively and collaboratively identify and synchronize project interdependencies across multiple teams, navigate risks, and can creatively think on your feet to adapt to change along the way.
• You have the ability to balance priorities among the long-term vision and short-term execution strategy.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills adjusted for different audiences.
• You know when to run with something on your own and when to ask for help.

On your first day, we’ll expect you to have:

• 5+ years of relevant professional experience, demonstrating success as a Project / Program Manager in a dynamic environment.
• Familiarity with the Atlassian product portfolio.
• Bachelor's or Master's degree in a related field (or equivalent experience).
• Have experience in diagnosing pain points for teams, moving them to 'good', and committing to ensuring they get to 'great'.

More about Jira Product DiscoveryJPD is the tool for product teams. At its core, JPD helps teams build better products by getting them behind a common vision and helping them build customer empathy and take action. We believe that better product decisions are made when they’re made as a team, and it doesn’t have to be hard. Whether its aggregating customer feedback, working with users, prioritizing key initiatives, or pivoting to a new idea, JPD makes it easy for you and your team to truly champion the build, measure, learn mentality to create products that delight. Learn more about Jira Product Discovery. Atlassian and JPD were recently listed as one of the most innovative workplaces in the Fast Company magazine: The 10 most innovative companies in the workplace in 2022#LI-RP1Our perks & benefitsTo 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 AtlassianThe 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.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 learn more about our culture and hiring process, explore our Candidate Resource Hub.