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Overview

Atlassian is seeking a visionary and influential Public Sector Field Chief Technology Officer (fCTO) to serve as a trusted technology advisor to government agencies, defense organizations, educational institutions, and companies that support public-sector missions.

The Public Sector Field CTO helps executives navigate technology modernization, organizational transformation, security, compliance, and cloud adoption. This role connects customer mission needs to Atlassian’s product and platform strategy, helping public-sector organizations modernize collaboration, service delivery, software development, and enterprise work management at scale.

This is not a traditional CTO or sales engineering role. You will represent Atlassian with CIOs, CTOs, CISOs, digital leaders, agency executives, and industry partners while influencing Atlassian internally through customer insight, roadmap feedback, public-sector thought leadership, and cross-functional leadership. You will operate at the intersection of mission outcomes, technology strategy, regulatory requirements, and business value.

Mission and Impact

Public-sector customers operate in complex environments shaped by mission priorities, procurement requirements, security controls, sovereignty concerns, legacy systems, and heightened expectations for operational resilience. The Public Sector fCTO makes these challenges understandable and actionable for both customers and Atlassian teams.

• Help public-sector leaders connect Atlassian solutions to measurable mission, service-delivery, and modernization outcomes.

• Build trust by translating technical capabilities, cloud boundaries, and compliance considerations into clear executive narratives.

• Bring the voice of government customers into product, engineering, security, compliance, and go-to-market decisions.

• Help scale repeatable patterns for executive engagement, customer adoption, field enablement, and public-sector transformation.

Key Responsibilities

Public-Sector Executive Advisory

• Act as a trusted advisor to CIOs, CTOs, CISOs, agency executives, digital service leaders, and mission owners on technology strategy, modernization, governance, risk, and organizational agility.

• Lead executive briefings, board-level discussions, roundtables, advisory sessions, and strategic 1:1 engagements.

• Understand agency missions, operating models, procurement realities, and stakeholder priorities, then connect them to practical technology strategies.

• Frame Atlassian’s value in terms of mission effectiveness, service resilience, workforce productivity, software delivery, transparency, and risk reduction.

Public-Sector Technology and Compliance

• Provide architectural guidance for enterprise-scale adoption, cloud migration, platform consolidation, and operational best practices.

• Help customers understand the relevance and boundaries of offerings such as Atlassian Government Cloud, including FedRAMP Moderate use cases and shared-responsibility considerations.

• Engage credibly on FedRAMP, NIST, RMF, CUI, ITAR, DoD Impact Levels, sovereign cloud, air-gapped environments, data residency, identity, access, and operational resilience.

• Partner with security, legal, compliance, product, and engineering teams to address customer requirements without overstating authorization scope or product capability.

• Champion enterprise-grade capabilities including scalability, performance, security, compliance, governance, availability, disaster recovery, and resilience.

Product, Platform, and Customer-Driven Strategy

• Serve as the voice of the public-sector customer inside Atlassian, representing requirements across product, engineering, security, compliance, legal, and go-to-market teams.

• Influence product and platform roadmaps using customer evidence, mission needs, regulatory developments, industry trends, and competitive insight.

• Translate complex public-sector requirements into clear problem statements, design considerations, and actionable product feedback.

• Establish structured feedback loops that include customer needs, field observations, enablement gaps, and post-engagement outcomes.

• Define customer success criteria and track whether adoption creates measurable mission and business value.

Customer and Revenue Impact

• Partner with sales, account, solutions engineering, customer success, partners, and marketing teams to accelerate strategic opportunities.

• Support qualification and executive alignment for public-sector pursuits, including security, authorization level, sponsor, procurement, and contract-vehicle considerations.

• Position Atlassian solutions in terms of mission outcomes, modernization priorities, risk mitigation, and total value.

• Identify opportunities to expand adoption across Jira, Confluence, Jira Service Management, Software and Strategy collections and related platform capabilities where appropriate.

• Build durable relationships with strategic agencies, defense organizations, system integrators, technology partners, and government contractors.

Field Enablement and Industry Influence

• Mentor account executives, solutions engineers, customer success teams, partners, and other field leaders on public-sector executive engagement and technical storytelling.

• Create repeatable playbooks, reference architectures, executive narratives, and enablement materials that improve field readiness.

• Represent Atlassian at public-sector conferences, industry forums, analyst briefings, customer advisory boards, and executive events.

• Publish or contribute to thought leadership on government modernization, secure collaboration, responsible AI, enterprise agility, cloud adoption, and transformation at scale.

• Stay current on evolving public-sector policy, regulatory, procurement, and technology landscapes.

Qualifications

• Proven senior technology leadership experience as a Field CTO, CTO, Chief Architect, government technology executive, or equivalent.

• Direct experience advising public-sector executives, government agencies, defense organizations, regulated enterprises, or government contractors.

• Deep understanding of enterprise cloud architecture, distributed systems, security, compliance, governance, identity, resilience, and risk management.

• Working knowledge of public-sector frameworks and requirements such as FedRAMP, NIST SP 800-53, RMF, CUI, ITAR, DoD Impact Levels, or comparable national security and sovereignty frameworks.

• Demonstrated ability to influence product strategy and roadmaps through customer evidence and market insight.

• Experience with Atlassian products, including Jira, Confluence, Jira Service Management, Jira Align, Bitbucket, or Atlassian Access, and the ability to articulate their value in complex environments.

• Strong executive presence, storytelling, facilitation, and written communication skills, with the ability to engage at the C-suite and board level.

• Proven ability to work across sales, product, engineering, security, compliance, legal, marketing, partners, and customer success.

• Track record of driving measurable customer, adoption, influence, or revenue outcomes through technology leadership.

Preferred Experience

• Experience in federal civilian, defense, intelligence, state and local government, education, healthcare, or other regulated sectors.

• Experience with public-sector procurement, contracting vehicles, system integrators, and government partner ecosystems.

• Cloud-native, high-scale SaaS, platform, DevSecOps, or mission-critical systems experience.

• Experience leading customer advisory boards, executive briefings, public-sector events, or industry thought leadership.

• Experience navigating regulated or sovereign environments across multiple countries.

Education and Location

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, Public Policy, or a related field required.

• Master’s degree in a technical, public administration, security, or business discipline preferred.

• Distributed-first work model with frequent domestic and international travel for customer, partner, and industry engagements.

• Role location, travel expectations, and any citizenship or clearance requirements will be determined by the applicable territory, customer portfolio, and engagement scope.

Success Measures

• Improved executive access, trust, and strategic alignment across priority public-sector accounts.

• Measurable customer adoption and mission value from Atlassian solutions.

• Customer insights converted into clear product, platform, security, or compliance improvements.

• Increased field readiness through scalable enablement, playbooks, and repeatable engagement patterns.

• Strategic opportunities accelerated through credible technical leadership and outcome-based storytelling.

• Stronger Atlassian influence across public-sector ecosystems, partners, and industry forums.

Public-sector trust matters: The successful candidate must communicate authorization scope, security capabilities, product availability, and roadmap information accurately. Customer commitments should be coordinated with the appropriate product, security, compliance, legal, and go-to-market teams.

Benefits & Perks

Atlassian offers a wide range of perks and benefits designed to support you, your family and to help you engage with your local community. Our offerings include health and wellbeing resources, paid volunteer days, and so much more. To learn more, visit go.atlassian.com/perksandbenefits.

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.

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