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.
With a sufficient timezone overlap with the team, we're able to hire eligible candidates for this role from any location in Australia and New Zealand. If this sparks your interest, apply today and chat with our friendly Recruitment team.
Your future team
We are looking for a Principal Data Scientists to join our team. We're looking for someone with business instincts, creativity and analytics mastery, who is passionate about applying these skills to build data and analytics foundations that inform smarter product decisions and, delight our customers. You will report to an Analytics Manager
Design a system of measurement that allows teams to measure their product performance success.
Design targeted explorations of our big data, to understand trends, find opportunities, and make recommendations to improve performance at scale.
Guide the measurement culture and understand the impact on our product strategy.
Be the subject matter expert in D&A being a mentor to your broader team
Envision, scope, and implement projects by collaborating with partners, customer research, data engineers and other analysts.
Share your high-quality insights to multiple levels of leadership to guide important decisions.
Be part of building an outstanding analytics culture at Atlassian. Leading by example, through education and creation of self-service tools, to make a lasting change in how your partners use data to make decisions.
Your background
Experience applying analytics skills to projects which have had a positive impact to company level business and product decisions.
An Agile development mentality, appreciating the benefit of constant iteration and improvement.
A very high bar for output quality, balancing "having something now" vs. "perfection in the future".
Communication and influence; create compelling insights, explaining data science concepts to diverse audiences, and building decision confidence by sharing expertise of facts and uncertainties.
Previously worked in global teams and high-growth companies.
Familiarity working with Product Management, Engineering, Design, Customer Research and Data Engineering teams.
Expertise in data manipulation and statistical programming languages (e.g. SQL, R, Python), and knowledge of cloud data environments (e.g. AWS).
Experience applying statistical or machine learning methodologies as part of your role (e.g. predictive modelling, Experimentation, Time Series Analysis).
Experience communicating with data visualisation (e.g. Tableau, Looker).
A degree in a quantitative field (e.g. statistics, mathematics, physics, econometrics, or computer science).
It's great, but not essential, if you have:
Customer or product analytics experience
An understanding of the SaaS development, business model and metrics.
Built ETL pipelines using any tools or scripting languages.
Are an active member of the broader analytics and data science community.
Advanced degree in Computer Science, Math or Statistics.
More about our team
The Analytics teams at Atlassian is tasked to find insights and inform better decision making from our rich datasets across user behavioural, products and customer data. We aim to positively impact the way our stakeholders shape their roadmaps and better improve our customers experiences. The teams are collaborative across all departments with a high bar for rigorous analyses, having fun along the way.
We have multiple opportunities across the Data & Analytics team for Principal Data Scientists so please reach out if you are interested on hearing more.
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.
To learn more about our culture and hiring process, explore our Candidate Resource Hub.