Principal Technical Program Manager

Working at Atlassian
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Your future team
Join the People Team, a dynamic group within Atlassian Corporate Engineering (ACE) focused on creating exceptional employee experiences that attract, hire, and grow our talent.
This role sits at the intersection of Product and AI, shaping how intelligent, data-driven systems power critical People experiences across the employee lifecycle. You will be responsible not just for delivering AI-enabled capabilities, but for ensuring they are high quality, trusted, and measurably impactful.
A core part of this role is defining how success is measured. You will establish the metrics, evaluation frameworks, and feedback loops that guide product and model decisions across the People domain.
Product Leadership

• Define product vision and roadmap for AI-powered capabilities in the People space, grounded in employee and business outcomes.
• Work backwards from user and business problems, translating ambiguity into clear product direction and success criteria.

AI & Evaluation Ownership

• Define and own evaluation frameworks for AI-powered People experiences, including metrics, quality thresholds, LLM-as-a-judge approaches, and automated and human-in-the-loop eval pipelines.
• Use quality and adoption signals to drive product decisions, model iteration, and rollout strategy.

Technical & Cross-functional influence

• Demonstrate strong understanding of the systems and workflows involved, and apply that understanding to shape product direction and solution design.
• Partner with Engineering, Data, Security, and People teams to influence decisions, drive alignment, and deliver complex initiatives across organizational boundaries.

By taking on these responsibilities, you will drive meaningful change in how Atlassian delivers high-quality, trusted employee experiences at scale.

• 8+ years of experience as a Technical Product Manager
• Strong product judgment and strategic thinking, with a proven ability to translate People and business objectives into clear priorities, success criteria, and outcomes.
• Deep experience working with AI-powered products, including defining evaluation frameworks, success metrics, and quality thresholds.
• Hands-on experience with AI evaluation approaches, such as LLM-as-a-judge, human-in-the-loop review, and automated evaluation, and using these signals to guide product decisions.
• Strong understanding of complex systems and workflows, with the ability to engage meaningfully with partners without being hands-on in implementation.
• Proven ability to lead complex, cross-functional initiatives, influencing without authority across senior stakeholders.
• Excellent communication, organizational, and collaboration skills, especially in highly ambiguous problem spaces.

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: USD $200,700 - USD $262,025
Zone B: USD $180,900 - USD $236,175
Zone C: USD $167,400 - USD $218,550
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.
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 .