Head of Engineering - Collaboration Sydney

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We are looking for a very special Senior Engineering Manager who wants the responsibility of defining, leading and executing the technical strategy for a specific $40m plus, product family of collaboration tools including Confluence and HipChat. You'll shape the architecture, team structure, product strategy, engineering processes, and you'll be contributing to the broader growth and company culture of Atlassian - we want you to be part of the team, not just another employee. This job is for you if you've grown a team globally across multiple continents, know how to spot a 10x team from 100 meters out, and have scaled a platform with both people and by driving a strong technical long term vision. But also sweat the details and are passionate for building products. You'll be reporting to the VP Engineering, this role is challenging, ever-changing, rewarding, and vital for our company strategy.  You will need genuine technical management abilities and sublime people management skills.  Your most important function is to inspire your teams to build better products.  You'll do this by combining your charming and pragmatic personality with your constant drive to understand, question and improve development tools and processes.  Your superhuman levels of innovation and persistence will ensure you get high quality, lustworthy software releases out the door and lead your team to dizzying new peaks of performance.   Responsibilities Co-ordinate multiple streams of software development across several teams and a couple of geographies, including the US, Australia, and Vietnam Onboard teams from different geographies by spreading our engineering culture, principles, and how we get stuff done Work closely with the Collaboration Platform Group Product Manager to validate the roadmap, set priorities and provide estimates Make and meet iteration and release plan commitments Use your inclusive management style to guide and grow your team of 70+ developers, and help them achieve their best performance Assess employee performance, address under-performance, and recognise and promote excellent performance Provide project visibility through well-chosen metrics and concise status reporting Ensure the quality of your product keeps getting better & better with each release Collaborate with Customer Support to ensure our customers' success Promote, define, refine and enforce best practices and process improvements that fit Atlassian's Agile methodology Collaborate with your fellow Engineering Managers to share ideas that will continue to improve our awesome Engineering Group Key Skills You are passionate about great software You have managed large software product teams with outstanding success You know when to ask tough questions about projects You recognise great software architecture You are a frustrated coder You can debate ideas with both developers and non-technical people You can make technical deep-dives into code while balancing business-objective discussions with executives You are listened to You are up to date on industry trends and want to run ahead of the pack You've adopted, rejected, and/or adjusted processes like XP, Scrum and Kanban You have an unusually effective blend of intelligence, integrity, domain knowledge, communications skills, and diplomacy You will be comfortable recruiting and managing a team of 70+ very bright, experienced engineers at a scale and pace few other software teams can match

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