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Principal Strategist, Sales & Success Strategy

Atlassian

Seattle, WAFull-time$184–240K/yrPosted 1w agoStill listed today

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At a glance

Compensation
$184–240K/yr
Location
Seattle, WA
Schedule
Full-time
Work Authorization
Not specified

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Job overview

Atlassian seeks a Principal Strategist to develop go-to-market strategy across initiatives, evaluating opportunities and designing initiatives that support customer-driven P&L growth. The role partners with executives and stakeholders to shape long-term business direction, using qualitative and quantitative methods to identify opportunities and guide decisions. The team focuses on sustainable growth, market share, profitability, and customer experience; understanding SaaS business models is ideal.

Skills & qualifications

RequiredNice to have

Skills

Sales PlanningCustomer SuccessData AnalysisStakeholder ManagementInterpersonal CommunicationsCollaborationFinancial AnalysisMarket AnalysisProblem SolvingGo-to-Market StrategyQualitative AnalysisQuantitative AnalysisFinancial ModelingData VisualizationCritical ThinkingCreative ThinkingPresentation SkillsLeadershipP&L ManagementPricing StrategyMonetization StrategyChurn Mitigation

Qualifications

10+ Years ExperienceGeneral Management or Corporate Development or Management Consulting or Corporate Strategy or Business Development or Equivalent FieldSaaS Business Models

Full job description

Overview

Your future team The Sales and Success Strategy team develops pragmatic, customer-centric GTM strategies that are responsive to changing market dynamics and drive sustainable, profitable growth. Dedicated to continuous improvement, we harness the power of data-driven insights to uncover growth opportunities while continually optimizing our sales process and empowering our GTM teams to build rich customer experiences and increase market share. This results in effective strategies to drive decisions on what we do and don’t do to provide a sustainable, monetizable advantage in the market. We measure success by the positive impact on our profitability, market share, and customer delight. Atlassian is seeking a Principal Strategist to develop our GTM strategy across different initiatives. Using qualitative and quantitative methods, this role will evaluate opportunities and design initiatives that fuel P&L growth from our customers. This work will be pivotal to delivering value and delight at scale to our customers, partners and across Atlassian, while creating outcomes that unlock the Atlassian System of Work. We are looking for a highly-capable individual contributor who will partner closely with cross-functional executives and stakeholders across the organization to define critical strategy that will help set the long-term direction of the business. This individual should thrive in a fast-paced environment, evaluate challenges from multiple angles to cogently structure a plan of action, and be able to operate independently. A strong understanding of SaaS business models is ideal.

Responsibilities

  • Develop actionable GTM strategies from ideation to design, which includes conducting internal and market due diligence, utilizing relevant frameworks, and creating scalable options to achieve our fiscal year goals, and our longer term performance targets.

  • Analyze complex information using qualitative and quantitative methods to inform and drive our GTM strategy and meet/exceed our revenue targets.

  • Proactively identifies opportunities and champions novel approaches with a willingness to test and iterate new ideas to solve complex problems that positively impact Atlassian and our customers.

  • Seamless transition from high-altitude to diving deep into details to uncover insights, perform financial and market analysis, synthesize a point of view to make recommendations to executive leadership.

  • Lead multi-layered stakeholder management with significant cross-functional engagement.

  • Influence across all levels from the front lines to C-suite through effective communication and collaboration.

  • Create trust and build relationships throughout the organization to marshal cross-functional support and resources needed to accomplish your goals.

Compensation

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: $183,600 - $239,700 Zone B: $165,240 - $215,730 Zone C: $152,388 - $198,951

Pay Ranges

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: $182,700 - $238,525 Zone B: $164,430 - $214,673 Zone C: $151,641 - $197,976

Qualifications

  • Have 10+ years of experience of a combination of general management, corporate development, management consulting / corporate strategy, business development or an equivalent field

  • A strong track record of delivering quantifiable business impact derived from developing actionable adoption, retention and engagement strategies.

  • Adept at navigating a P&L, business metrics and financial statements; awareness of pricing structures, monetization and churn mitigation strategies.

  • Experienced at breaking down problems, diagnosing the root causes, and creating realistic solutions that can be executed across the organization.

  • Exceptional critical and creative thinking skills including evaluating risks and contingencies, developing structure in ambiguity, connecting the dots and flexibility in accepting new ideas or pivoting.

  • Deep analytical and data visualization skills from consuming significant information with the ability to determine the salient components needed for analysis and insights. Likewise, comfort with operating with asymmetrical and incomplete information, adapting and making forward progress.

  • Ability to work quickly in a fast-paced environment while seamlessly transitioning from high-level to a detailed view.

  • Effective at influencing across the levels from the front lines to the C-suite through strong communication, collaboration and presentation skills. You set the bar in terms of communication effectiveness from bringing teams, peers and leadership along on the journey.

  • Demonstrate leadership qualities throughout your work – taking ownership of challenges, supporting your colleagues and setting the standard for quality in your deliverables.

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. In line with local law, identity verification (which may include use of biometric data) is a condition of employment with Atlassian for employment fraud purposes.

How this job compares

Set against the 515 open Sales Strategy jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 5, 2026.

Pay
  • This posting$184–240K/yr
  • Washington median$141–251K/yr24 salary ranges
  • US median$133–219K/yr377 salary ranges

This range's midpoint, $212K, is 6% above the Washington median midpoint ($201K) — in the middle half of Sales Strategy salary ranges in Washington.

Openings
Olive Jobs lists 26 open Sales Strategy jobs in Washington and 515 across the US. 15% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
Hiring the most in Washington
Experience
This posting asks for at least 10 years of experience — more than three in four Sales Strategy postings that state a minimum ask for (median 7 years, across 468 postings).
Education
121 of the 515 open Sales Strategy jobs (23%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.

Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on November 5, 2026. Pay medians are the middle values of the low ends and of the high ends of postings that list both ends of a range in the same cadence (a yearly salary or an hourly rate); a range's midpoint is halfway between its ends. Pay and experience figures resting on fewer than 20 postings are left out.

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