Atlassian

Lead Program Manager, People Team

Job Locations US-CA-San Francisco | AU-Sydney
ID REQ-2025-0924
Category
Program Management

Overview

Working at Atlassian

Atlassians can choose where they work – whether in an office, from home, or a combination of the two. That way, Atlassians 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.

Responsibilities

As a leader within the People Program Team, you will be responsible for leading a Program Portfolio for Atlassian’s Talent, DEI and Employment Relations. You will partner with key stakeholders across CoE, HRBP, Program Management and Engineering teams to deliver scalable and intelligent solutions that amplify our impact on Atlassian’s most important asset—its people.

In this role, you will:

  • Lead and develop a high-performing team of program managers to deliver complex large scale projects independently across different People functions including Talent, ER, and DEI

  • Partner with key Program stakeholders to define program scope, roadmap, success criteria, roles & responsibilities, governance and change management.

  • Build relationships with and influence cross-functional partners and stakeholders across the People Team, People Technology, and People Insights in order to deliver our roadmap and programs of work

  • Proactively manage program progress, risks, decisions, dependencies, reporting and outcomes

  • Work with program stakeholders and enablement teams to achieve program milestones while managing dependencies, communications and downstream impacts

  • Drive programs to deliver organizational efficiencies by building scalable solutions that leverage automation and AI capabilities

Qualifications

  • 10+ years program management experience with at least 5 years of extensive experience in managing HR programs

  • Experience leading teams to deliver large-scale transformations, including knowledge of stakeholder engagement and change management best practices

  • Successful track record in building, implementing, and delivering key people programs and showing direct, positive linkages to the achievement of business strategy or OKRs

  • Experience in project management and delivering high quality presentations, communications, and artifacts to a wide variety of stakeholder audiences

  • High levels of resourcefulness, influence, organizational savviness, execution skills (strategy through implementation)

  • Prior experience in using Jira & Confluence

  • Agile / PMP Certification is highly desirable.

  • Location in PST or Australia to facilitate time zone collaboration.

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: $198,500 - $264,600

Zone B: $178,600 - $238,100

Zone C: $164,700 - $219,600

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.

Our perks & benefits

Atlassian offers a variety of perks and benefits to support you, your family and to help you engage with your local community. Our offerings include health coverage, paid volunteer days, wellness resources, and so much more. Visit go.atlassian.com/perksandbenefits to learn more.

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.

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