Global Mobility Operations Lead

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.

Atlassian is seeking a driven and experienced Global Mobility Operations Lead to join our team, reporting to the Head of People Operations. This is a 12 month fixed-term contract to cover Parental Leave.

This leadership position will be responsible for designing and implementing effective global mobility programs, policies, and strategies. This includes immigration, relocation and assignment programs, with a focus on employee-centric mobility experience, operational excellence and compliance. This role also involves managing an amazing global team of Global Mobility Managers and Specialists.

In this role, you will be responsible for the following:

• Setting Global Mobility strategy and direction for global immigration and relocations
• Managing a global team with direct reports in Australia, USA, Poland and the Philippines
• Setting Global Mobility OKRs and being accountable for related team performance
• Managing Global Mobility budgets and multiple Global Mobility vendors
• Being the Global Mobility escalation point of contact for for policy, exceptions and processes
• Overseeing ad-hoc projects e.g. company footprint expansion, M&A, company initiatives, vendor RFI/RFP
• Partnering closely with Leadership from internal teams on all Global Mobility related items - Talent Acquisition, Internal Mobility, HR, Team Anywhere, Payroll, Finance, Legal, Tax, Equity, Compensation, Benefits, Business Travel, HRIT
• Managing Atlassian's Global Mobility profile in a constantly shifting immigration and travel landscape; partnering with our immigration vendors and internal teams including Corporate Affairs and Crisis Management to influence immigration policy and reform and respond appropriately to global events

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree with at least 8 years of relevant working experience in Global Mobility, global immigration experience preferred
• Demonstrated experience managing a global team, with strong leadership and coaching skills
• Proven experience managing global vendor relationships
• Excellent communication skills and stakeholder management
• Strong attention to detail and accuracy
• High level of integrity and discretion
• Ability to prioritise workload and competing deadlines
• Enthusiastic, positive and keen to learn and develop
• Workday experience a plus

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.

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.

Client-provided location(s): Flexible / Remote, Sydney, Australia

Job ID: Atlassian-21299

Employment Type: OTHER

Posted: 2025-08-02T04:15:06