Principal Technical Program Manager - Accessibility

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About the role

We're looking for an experienced Principal Technical Program Manager to help make Atlassian products accessible for every team, especially our largest enterprise customers.

In this role, you'll lead complex, multi-product accessibility programs across engineering and design. You'll turn regulatory and customer requirements into pragmatic technical plans, drive alignment across multiple teams, and help us find reusable, efficient ways to meet accessibility expectations at scale.

You won't write code day to day, but you'll be deeply technical, credible with senior engineers and designers, and comfortable shaping end-to-end solutions that span shared components, design systems, and product surfaces.

What you'll do

• Define and own the multi-quarter accessibility program roadmap across multiple products.
• Translate enterprise accessibility requirements and standards into clear problem statements, technical initiatives, and success measures.
• Lead cross-team programs that involve design systems, platform components, and individual product teams (e.g., Jira, Confluence, JSM).
• Partner with engineers and designers to develop reusable patterns and components that make accessible experiences the default.
• Embed accessibility into product development workflows (design reviews, technical design, testing, rollout), not just as a post-launch checklist.
• Work with customer-facing and compliance teams to design efficient engagement models for enterprise accessibility (e.g., VPATs, escalations, CAB workflows).
• Drive adoption of automation, tooling, and metrics for accessibility (e.g., automated checks, shared test plans, defect and cycle-time metrics).
• Communicate program status, risks, and trade-offs clearly to senior leaders and stakeholders.

On your first day, we'll expect you to have

• 10+ years of experience in technical program management, engineering management, or similar roles in software.
• A track record of leading high-impact, cross-functional technical programs that span multiple teams and surfaces.
• Strong technical acumen: you're comfortable reviewing technical designs, understanding architecture trade-offs, and partnering with senior engineers.
• Experience working in or closely with one of: accessibility (WCAG, ARIA, assistive tech), compliance, or other regulated environments.
• Demonstrated ability to:
  
  
  • Build and execute multi-quarter roadmaps.
  • Manage complex dependencies and de-risk delivery.
  • Use data and metrics to inform priorities and track outcomes.
  • Communicate clearly with executives, engineers, designers, and customer-facing teams.
• Comfort working in ambiguous problem spaces and creating structure where it doesn't yet exist.

Compensation

At Atlassian, we strive to design equitable, explainable, and competitive compensation programs. To support this goal, the baseline of our range is higher than that of the typical market range, but in turn we expect to hire most candidates near this baseline. Base pay within the range is ultimately determined by a candidate's skills, expertise, or experience. 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: $200,700 - $262,025

Zone B: $180,900 - $236,175

Zone C: $167,400 - $218,550

This role may also be eligible for benefits, bonuses, commissions, and equity.

Please visit go.atlassian.com/payzones for more information on which locations are included in each of our geographic pay zones. However, please confirm the zone for your specific location with your recruiter.

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): San Francisco, CA, Flexible / Remote

Job ID: Atlassian-23673

Employment Type: OTHER

Posted: 2026-01-01T19:10:57