Senior Manager Data Science at Atlassian

Atlassian can hire people in any country where we have a legal entity, assuming candidates have eligible working rights and a sufficient timezone overlap with their team. As our offices re-open, Atlassians can choose to work remotely or return to an office, unless it’s necessary for the role to be performed in the office. Interviews and onboarding are conducted virtually, a part of being a distributed-first company. 
Job description
Do you get excited by the challenge of scaling a fast-growing company through strong analytics insight and data science solutions? Do you find it rewarding to navigate through complexity and solve problems nobody had solutions before? Are you enthusiastic about experimentation, fast learning and innovation?
We’re looking for a senior leader to grow a high-performing Workforce Analytics team with a passion to solve business problems with advanced analytics. You and your team will be the strategic partners with senior business leaders, identify opportunities and problems, test and measure hypotheses, build analytics and data science solution, and surface insights to drive transformative changes.
More about you
The perfect candidate will be a seasoned people leader with a background in applied statistics, economics or a related quantitative field. You have strong business acumen, you are comfortable with ambiguity and complexity, and you have experience working with senior leaders and cross functional teams. You are a self-starter, a strategic thinker, a data-driven problem solver, and a humble learner. You have demonstrated success in using data science to drive understanding, progression, and decision making for large organizations. You have domain knowledge in workforce analytics and people analytics.
In this role you will get to:
Hire, lead, and grow a team of data scientists with great technical skills, business acumen, and value fitPartner with senior leaders to identify business opportunities and build KPIsPartner with cross-functional teams (program management, workforce planning team, etc) to drive transformative initiatives and make impactBe the thought leader to build analytics strategy, provide transparency of roadmap, and drive sprint planningBuild shared vision, empower a team of missionaries, and deliver high quality outcomeDrive actionable analytics insights, build data science solutions, and measure impactManage roadmapping, sprint planning, stakeholder engagement, and remove blockers when neededBe a great communicator to share complexed ideas simple, advocate team's work and coach data storytelling
On your first day, we'll expect you to have:
8+ years experience as a people leader with proven success 15+ years experience in analytics and data science fieldSuccess at hiring, managing, and growing a global team remotelyStrong business acumen and strategic thinking - when there is complexity and ambiguity, you can help your team identify the right problem to solveSuccess at building a culture of data-informed decision making, fast learning and innovationStrong communication skills to tell data stories to non-technical audienceStrong technical background in statistics, measurement, experimentation, modeling, SQL, R/Python, data instrumentationExperience applying advanced analytics knowledge to the real worldRoadmap planning, sprint planning, and project management skillsYou have domain knowledge in workforce analytics and people analytics
It's great, but not required, if you have:
Experience in B2B, customer support, customer successExperience in product analytics, people analyticsExperience with large data sets and distributed computing (Hive/Hadoop)Experience in using Jira, Team Central, Confluence to manage and share team's work