Portfolio Management Lead - Atlassian Ventures

Overview

The Atlassian Ventures is hiring an essential member of the team to expand portfolio management function. This role will have direct exposure to senior leaders at Atlassian and an opportunity to network and organize with the Atlassian Ventures portfolio and industry leaders. 

Reporting to the Head of Atlassian Ventures, this role will drive and maintain robust operations and community surrounding the Atlassian Ventures portfolio. With an eye on customer service and a passion for scaling partner-based motions, this role will be highly cross functional. You will collaborate with Atlassian internal product, GTM, marketing/comms, channel and marketplace teams to ensure Atlassian Ventures’ portfolio companies can grow and expand within Atlassian’s ecosystem. This isn’t an investment role, but rather centered around post-investment support of the growing portfolio.

The ideal candidate will have exposure to SaaS/cloud software and a combination of business operations, business development, customer success and/or strategy experience within an enterprise technology company or a platform team at a VC firm. This individual should be comfortable collaborating with technical teams, communicating with internal and external executives, driving cross-functional alignment, and context switching between implementation details and high-level strategy. This individual should be a self-starter and comfortable jugging competing priorities.

Working at Atlassian

Atlassians can choose where they work – whether in an office, from home, or a combination of the two. That way, Atlassians have more control over supporting their family, personal goals, and other priorities. We can hire people in any country where we have a legal entity. Interviews and onboarding are conducted virtually, a part of being a distributed-first company.

Responsibilities

• Manage a community of startup founders and operators 

• Plan and execute online and offline events to foster collaboration and learning across The Atlassian Ventures community; may include workshops, founder forums, dinners, and events

• Liaise and coordinate with technical strategy team on product integrations and support sales enablement of portfolio companies within Atlassian’s GTM organization

• Develop instructional online content/portal to guide portfolio companies how to leverage Atlassian resources

• Develop content marketing materials to build Atlassian Ventures brand

• Build a metrics driven organization through evolved reporting, dashboards, and tracking channels to provide actionable insight on performance and growth opportunities

• Experiment and refine new channels to drive value to Atlassian Ventures portfolio

• Quarterback partner marketing requests and track effectiveness of co-marketing activities 

• Drive regular communication with portfolio companies to understand what they need in order to scale; Be a proactive partner to help them achieve those goals. 

• Network with Atlassian’s internal teams to build strong relationships and connections for Atlassian Ventures

• Connect startups to other companies and founders within our network for business development and internal mentors for guidance and support  

• Participate in Venture Capital partnership/platform communities to leverage best practices

Qualifications

• 5-10 years of directly relevant professional experience (e.g. VC platform team, marketing or community at a startup/accelerator, business development/ sales or customer success).

• Demonstrated a strong passion for and experience with tech startups and VC ecosystem 

• Founder-first mentality. Customer-service oriented. Executive presence and committed empathy to the startup journey. Winning mindset - match our founder’s passion for results and bias to action

• Consistently demonstrate a passion for Atlassian’s core values: Open company, no bullshit, Build with heart and balance, Don’t #AI% the customer, Play, as a team, Be the change you seek

• Ability to adapt to challenges and opportunities with a solutions perspective –a natural problem solver.

• Social, curious, outgoing, networker with the ability to develop and maintain strong relationships with various stakeholders and enjoy connecting people to others 

• Initiator, builder, creative multi-dimensional thinker

• Comfortable working in an unstructured environment and taking on new challenges proactively and effectively managing competing priorities 

• Experience engaging with corporate senior executives and startup founders

• Demonstrated experience leading and scaling a community

• Comfortable working in a hybrid environment

• Exceptional written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to conceptualize and communicate complex subject matter to a variety of audiences

• Proven ability to multitask, prioritize assignments, and organize in a fast-paced, high-intensity environment, both independently and as part of a team

• Motivated self-starter, with high productivity, and excellent follow-through. A belief that no job is too small

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. In the United States, we have three geographic pay zones. For this role, our current base pay ranges for new hires in each zone are:

Zone A: $175,500 - $234,000

Zone B: $158,000 - $210,600

Zone C: $145,700 - $194,200

This role may also be eligible for benefits, bonuses, commissions, and equity.

Please visit go.atlassian.com/payzones for more information on which locations are included in each of our geographic pay zones. However, please confirm the zone for your specific location with your recruiter.

Our perks & benefits

Atlassian offers a variety of perks and benefits to support you, your family and to help you engage with your local community. Our offerings include health coverage, paid volunteer days, wellness resources, and so much more. Visit go.atlassian.com/perksandbenefits to learn more.

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.