Chief of Staff to Head of Product Work Management

Overview

Title: Chief of Staff to Head of Product Work Management

Overview

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.

Responsibilities

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

Qualifications

• 10+ years of relevant work experie