Head of Engineering & Site Leader

Working at Atlassian
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Role Overview:
We are seeking a visionary Engineering Leader to drive product strategy and critical business decisions across the organization. This role involves leading a world-class engineering division, shaping technical strategy and product architecture, and developing innovative products. You will play a pivotal role in transforming Atlassian, with engineering excellence at the heart of our operations.
As the Engineering Site Leader, you will be responsible for overseeing operations of the engineering site, ensuring alignment with global strategies, and fostering a collaborative and inclusive culture. Additionally, you will focus on growing and scaling the engineering team in the region, attracting top talent, and developing existing team members to meet the evolving needs of the organization.
Key Responsibilities:

• Lead and manage a set of teams within our EMEA based engineering organization (primarily in Poland), focusing on delivering highly technical multi-quarter roadmaps.
• Develop and implement strategies for future development projects based on the company's overall objectives and resources.
• Foster an inclusive environment where diverse perspectives are welcomed and encouraged.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams, including product management and design, to build a feature roadmap and deliver high-quality experiences to our customers.
• Drive technical excellence, innovation, and quality across engineering teams.
• Recruit, hire, and mentor top engineering talent, fostering career growth and engagement.
• Ensure operational and quality metrics are achieved, and champion developer productivity.
• Steward other local leaders' efforts towards branding, talent acquisition, retention, and to build a robust sustainable culture.
• Build bridges with global leadership and remote managers from other sites to make sure that the new site is well integrated into the company fabric.
• Represent Atlassian Poland Sp. z o.o. internally and externally, helping to inform global initiatives with the local context, playing a supporting role with people-related matters and being the "voice of the region".

Qualifications:

• 15+ years of experience in building and scaling engineering teams with a focus on engineering strategy, infrastructure planning, and architecture.
• Demonstrated experience in developing influential relationships and trust with senior leaders across different functions.
• Proven experience hiring and mentoring high-caliber engineers with diverse technical strengths and backgrounds.
• Exceptional communication skills, with the ability to translate technical concepts into easy-to-understand language for business partners.
• A graduate degree in Computer Science or a related technical field.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience working for SaaS companies.
• Experience managing managers and scaling organizations with over 150 engineers.
• Experience leading teams across geographies and working in a distributed-first company.

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.
562,500 PLN - 734,375 PLN annually
This role may also be eligible for benefits, bonuses, commissions, and equity.

• 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 .