Principal Data Scientist

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Hiring Remotely in India
Remote
Senior level
Cloud • Information Technology • Productivity • Security • Software • App development • Automation
Atlassian provides tools to help every team unleash their full potential.
The Role
Partner with cross-functional teams to design and execute quantitative analyses, experiments, forecasting, and visualizations that influence product and business strategy. Translate data into stories and actionable recommendations, measure impact, and present findings to senior leadership.
Summary Generated by Built In
Are you an analytics champion with a deep toolset who thrives on helping business partners strategize, implement and measure data-driven initiatives? Do you relish the opportunity to dive headfirst into vast, high-impact projects and make foundational contributions across analytics, strategy and operations? Are you energized working closely with the business to turn data into beautiful, high impact visualizations to power leadership decisions? If so, this role is for you!
As a Principal Data Scientist on our Team, you will partner closely with key business leads, focusing on some of the most exciting challenges Atlassian faces.
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.
  • Collaborate on a variety of product and business problems with a diverse set of cross-functional partners and become a trusted strategic partner through the structure and clarity of your work.
  • Apply technical expertise with quantitative analysis, experimentation, and the presentation of data to develop strategies for our business and help solve the business's biggest challenges.
  • Focus on developing hypotheses through analytical approaches, different methodologies, frameworks, and technical approaches to test them.
  • Define, understand, and test opportunities to improve the products and business and influence roadmaps through insights and recommendations.
  • Partner with cross-functional teams to inform, influence, and execute strategy decisions
  • Identify and measure the success of product efforts through forecasting and monitoring of key product metrics to understand trends.
  • You will use data to shape product development, quantify new opportunities, identify upcoming challenges, and ensure the products we build bring value to people, businesses, and Atlassian.
  • You will use storytelling techniques to communicate insights broadly, including to company leadership teams.

At Atlassian, we strive to design equitable, explainable, and competitive compensation programs. We follow consistent hiring practices and account for each candidate's skills, knowledge, and experience when setting base pay within the range.
This role may also be eligible for benefits, bonuses, commissions, and equity.
Minimum Qualifications / Your background:
  • 8+ Years of Experience in Data Science or related fields
  • Proficiency in SQL AND another data manipulation programming language (e.g Python, R)
  • Expertise at telling stories with data and familiarity with at least one visualization tool (e.g. Tableau, R-Shiny, Microstrategy, SAP Business Objects, Looker, etc.)
  • Expertise in applying a broad variety of statistical concepts (e.g. regressions, A/B tests, clustering, probability) to business problems and a strong sense of when to adapt/combine approaches to suit the problem at hand
  • Experience driving projects or programs which have had proven impact on business strategy and performance through your analytics skills
  • A proven track record for crafting analysis into well-written content
  • Experience advising, presenting to and serving as a thought partner to senior executives

Desirable Qualifications
This section is standardized across all P60 Data Science roles.
  • 10+ Years of Experience in Data Science or related fields
  • An understanding of the SaaS business model and key metrics

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 .
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.

Skills Required

  • 8+ years of experience in Data Science or related fields
  • Proficiency in SQL and another data manipulation language (e.g., Python, R)
  • Expertise in data storytelling and familiarity with at least one visualization tool (e.g., Tableau, R-Shiny, Microstrategy, SAP Business Objects, Looker)
  • Strong applied statistical skills (regressions, A/B tests, clustering, probability) and methodological flexibility
  • Experience driving analytics projects or programs with measurable business impact
  • Proven ability to craft analyses into well-written content
  • Experience advising and presenting to senior executives as a strategic thought partner
  • 10+ years of experience in Data Science or related fields
  • Understanding of SaaS business model and key metrics

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Atlassian Compensation & Benefits Highlights

  • Parental & Family Support Generous paid parental leave (26 weeks for birthing parents and 20 weeks for non‑birthing parents) is paired with inclusive family‑formation benefits such as fertility, adoption, and surrogacy support. Caregiving resources, onsite Mother’s Rooms in some locations, and breastmilk shipping for business travel reinforce a family‑friendly approach.
  • Retirement Support A company 401(k) match with immediate vesting, along with retirement planning support and broader financial wellbeing resources, strengthens long‑term security. These offerings complement market‑based cash compensation to round out total rewards.
  • Flexible Benefits The “Team Anywhere” model is backed by a monthly remote‑work allowance, ergonomic resources, and a Flex Wallet that can be applied to a wide range of reimbursable expenses. Learning budgets and paid volunteer time further expand choice and lifestyle flexibility.

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The Company
HQ: San Francisco, CA
11,000 Employees
Year Founded: 2012

What We Do

Atlassian creates teamwork solutions for high-performing teams. Our portfolio of collaboration and work management software products includes Jira, Confluence, Trello, Loom and Rovo. More than 300,000 businesses worldwide rely on Atlassian’s technology, including 80 percent of Fortune 500 companies. Our solutions support various business teams and they help organizations plan, track, and deliver their biggest ideas together.

Why Work With Us

At Atlassian, we believe we can accomplish so much more together than apart — which is why everything from our tooling — to our distributed workforce — to how our teams are structured is rooted in collaboration. Come join us and help unleash the potential of every team.

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