Principal Data Scientist

Overview

At Atlassian, we are looking for a Principal Data Scientist to join our world-class Data Science team. This team leverages data to drive insights about our products and customers, partnering closely with Product Managers, Engineers, Designers, Researchers, Data Engineers, Markets, and the Executive team across Atlassian to drive and influence outcomes.

Your Future Team

The Data Science team is responsible for using a variety of analysis and data-science techniques to understand how Atlassian’s customers engage with our AI products, identify gaps and opportunities, and measure the success of our product investments.

Responsibilities

In this role, you will:

• Collaborate on a variety of product and business problems with a diverse set of cross-functional partners, becoming a trusted strategic partner.
• Apply technical expertise with quantitative analysis, experimentation, and the presentation of data to develop strategies for our business.
• Focus on developing hypotheses through analytical approaches, different methodologies, frameworks, and technical approaches to test them.
• Define, understand, and test opportunities to improve the products and business and influence roadmaps through insights and recommendations.
• Partner with cross-functional teams to inform, influence, and execute strategy decisions.
• Identify and measure the success of product efforts through forecasting and monitoring of key product metrics to understand trends.
• Use data to shape product development, quantify new opportunities, identify upcoming challenges, and ensure the products we build bring value to people, businesses, and Atlassian.
• Use storytelling techniques to communicate insights broadly, including to company leadership teams.

Qualifications

Minimum Qualifications

• 8+ Years of Experience in Data Science or related fields.
• Proficiency in SQL and another data manipulation programming language (e.g., Python, R).
• Expertise at telling stories with data and familiarity with at least one visualization tool (e.g., Tableau, R-Shiny, Microstrategy, SAP Business Objects, Looker, etc.).
• Expertise in applying a broad variety of statistical concepts (e.g., regressions, A/B tests, clustering, probability) to business problems.
• Experience driving projects or programs that have had a proven impact on business strategy and performance through your analytics skills.
• A proven track record for crafting analysis into well-written and persuasive content.
• Experience advising, presenting to, and serving as a thought partner to senior executives.

Desirable Qualifications

• 10+ Years of Experience in Data Science or related fields.
• An understanding of the SaaS business model and key metrics.
• Experience in developing insights for Chat, Search, or LLM-based products.

Compensation

At Atlassian, we strive to design equitable, explainable, and competitive compensation programs. The base pay for this role ranges from $181,200 to $268,400 per year, depending on the geographic pay zone. This role may also be eligible for benefits, bonuses, commissions, and equity.

Working at Atlassian

Atlassians can choose where they work – whether in an office, from home, or a combination of the two. 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.