Working at Atlassian
Atlassian can hire people in any country where we have a legal entity. Assuming you have eligible working rights and a sufficient time zone overlap with your team, you can choose to work remotely or return to an office as they reopen (unless it's necessary for your role to be performed in the office). Interviews and onboarding are conducted virtually, a part of being a distributed-first company.
Job description
We are looking for a passionate and inspiring leader to run and grow our Cloud Customer Support operations. Collaborating with Regional Managers from other geographies and heads of departments, this position will define strategic direction and operational strategies for Jira Cloud products for Cloud support teams based in North America. They will identify areas for continuous improvement, contribute to policies and frameworks, and most importantly, develop the talent.
To service our customers effectively, you need to be able to build an environment that attracts top talent and nurtures them through training programs, accountability for stretch goals, regular performance management, and calibration exercises. You will join our Customer Support Services (CSS) department at a really exciting time! Atlassian is growing rapidly year over year and we want to scale intelligently while helping our customers unlock value from our products faster. This is an opportunity to play a major role in achieving that goal.
Your success will be based on your ability to:

• Lead your team through hyper-growth transformation by scaling intelligently and improving customer experience
• Grow the leadership capability in the org - senior managers, front-line managers, and their teams.
• Attract and nurture top talent, continuously improve employee engagement and satisfaction
• Monitor and optimize critical business processes and operational metrics
• Foster an environment of legendary customer support - positively influencing Atlassian products' NPS & CSAT scores
• Anticipate the evolution of Cloud customers and their needs in partnership with Product leadership
• Drive cross-functional and cross-geo initiatives to execute against broader company strategy

Your key responsibilities will be to:

• Define and implement support strategy to improve customer experience, scale the team, develop talent, balance cost and coverage
• Present strategy, key insights, financial/non-financial achievements, monthly/quarterly progress updates to leadership in a compelling manner
• Coach and develop strong leadership capabilities and a continuous improvement mindset to your directs and their teams
• Inspire and motivate support leadership and support engineers to be the best they can be
• Develop an environment and culture of legendary support throughout the Cloud support team
• Analyze operational metrics to determine strategic wins and drive improvements that will increase value for Cloud customers
• Collaborate with key partners (Cloud product leadership, Support & Success leadership, etc) to drive visibility of cloud support customer needs and ensure multi-functional and cross-geo collaboration

On day one we'll expect you to have:

• Demonstrated experience in designing and implementing talent-nurturing programs that grow strong leaders and strong Support Engineers
• Experience with presenting to support platform heads and senior leadership with clear and concise successes and challenges and the impact on the overall health of the business
• Leadership experience managing large teams to meet and exceed operational performance goals
• Exceptional behavioral assessment capability and the ability to teach this to others
• Experience in building a customer-centric culture that champions the customer's needs
• Experience with interpreting data analytics to derive insight and drive customer value
• Demonstrated experience and success in multi-functional influence and inspiring change
• Strong communication and organizational skills to support the company's stellar team initiatives
• 15+ years of experience in fast-growing global support operations serving a complex customer base

More about our team
Our team is filled with top-notch technical individuals who are excited to be building a new service offering and experience for our customers. We challenge one another every day and hold ourselves accountable for our work, product as well as our customer's overall success. We all enjoy the interactions with the customers, problem-solving, digging into complex issues, and actively championing for customers within Atlassian. We wake up every morning asking ourselves how we can improve the customer's experience, the quality of our product, the quality of our support system, or our individual weaknesses. We are not scared of challenges, nor do we back down or get deterred by tough problems. When problems seem the hardest we are at our best, pushing harder for the root cause and a solution. We are a combination of passion and persistence. We feel that through our roles we can positively impact millions of end-users and their experience with Atlassian products.
We believe we can add significant value to the business by listening to the customer's experience, translating these into actions, and championing their short-term issues and long-term needs throughout the organization. Our team is open, filled with varied backgrounds and talents, respectful, focused, located around the globe, and is all about providing legendary service to our customers.
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Our perks & benefits
To support you at work and play, our perks and benefits include ample time off, an annual education budget, paid volunteer days, and so much more.
About Atlassian
The world's best teams work better together with Atlassian. From medicine and space travel, to disaster response and pizza deliveries, Atlassian software products help teams all over the planet. At Atlassian, we're motivated by a common goal: to unleash the potential of every team .
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.
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