Senior Manager

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We are looking for a Senior Recruiting Manager to drive Atlassian's Executive R&D hiring strategy, with a key focus on global executive hiring for technical roles. As a strategic Talent Acquisition leader, you will own the execution of Executive R&D growth objectives, collaborating closely with senior business leaders to shape the future of our teams while recruiting for a small number of key roles. As an Executive Recruiting Manager, you will lead executive hiring initiatives within Engineering and technical specializations, ensuring we attract top-tier talent for critical roles. Your strategic insight and leadership will be essential in building a dynamic, high-performing workforce to support Atlassian's continued growth and success.

Here's what you'll care about:

Building for the Future: You are looking to build, rather than maintain. Through a close partnership with the business and our global team.Promoting a Team: You are highly focused on achieving our hiring goals and not losing sight of team health. You lead by example as you will be recruiting for key executive roles while leading the team to hiring excellence.Optimising for Scale: You're an important driver as we look to land the right people, in the right role, at the right time. This includes partnering and influencing executive stakeholders.Experience and skills we require;

• A track record owning hiring objectives across multiple teams and ability to plan, organise and implement projects to meet established goals on time.

• Experience using complex data to drive distinctive perspectives, insights and actions to improve the hiring lifecycle.

• Capable of leading a global dispersed team of executive recruiters while holding reqs. Ability to support employees through the change process and also mentor them to become change leaders.

• Stakeholder management with executive and senior leadership in R&D and a track record of partnering with these leaders, using data lead strategies to improve hiring outcomes.

• Ability to mentor and coach TA teams, and adopt strategies to elevate performance.

• Alignment to our values and experience exhibiting them in your actions and communication with colleagues and candidates.

• Extensive experience leading executive and senior leadership recruiting within a fast-scaling environment within a global company or executive search firm

• A minimum of 5 years experience leading a team of senior talent professionals

• Proven ability to partner with C-level and senior executives to define hiring strategies, influence decision-making, and deliver top-tier leadership talent.

• Track record of building and mentoring high-performing dispersed recruiting teams, with a focus on executive search, candidate experience, and equitable hiring practices.

• Deep knowledge of market mapping, talent intelligence, and creative sourcing strategies to engage diverse leadership talent globally.

Benefits & Perks

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About Atlassian

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