At Atlassian, we work with over 300,000 customers worldwide, including organizations like NASA, IBM, Hubspot, Samsung, and Coca-Cola. Our goal is to unleash the potential of every team through the power of incredible software solutions, delivering exceptional customer impact and ensuring ongoing revenue growth. What makes us unique is our belief in our value of 'play as a team'. We support each other, celebrate our wins together and share knowledge. Our employees work with Atlassian, not for Atlassian.
There's a strong earning potential for our sales team which is supported by the vast enterprise market awaiting our exploration, along with the consistent preference of our customers for Atlassian products.
We're leading the way in responsibly integrating artificial intelligence into our cloud products as we aim to migrate our customers to the cloud while building trust through transparency of cost, moving faster with our collaborations, and accelerating our customers' business outcomes and are tasked with constructing and executing a powerful sales strategy. The role involves steering the utilization of various products and services for our most significant and strategically important customer base. This includes overseeing a specific set of high-value customers, comprehending their long-term business goals, and formulating customized strategies to foster mutual growth and success.
The responsibilities also encompass nurturing strong relationships with key decision-makers, identifying opportunities for upselling or cross-selling, as well as closely collaborating with internal teams, Channel Partners, Product Specialists, Account Managers, and Solution Engineers to deliver solutions that align with customer objectives.
Working directly with Indian Global Capability Centers of Atlassian largest global accounts you wil drive the success, understanding and revenue of these Strategic Accounts with ownership of their Indian presence and targets working collaboratively with your peer account executives operating with the company head quarters.
What You'll Do:
- Develop and implement named Account or Territory plans geared at both maximising expansion opportunities across a wide portfolio of products and ensuring high bar of customer success for you GCC accounts.
- Be the main Atlassian point of contact or escalation point for designated strategic Accounts Indian presense
- Developing and implementing strategic sales plans to acquire and retain high-value expansions and opportunities
- Identifying key decision-makers within target accounts and building strong relationships with them.
- Building and maintaining relationships with C-level and other executive relationships in India.
- Understanding the business objectives and challenges of potential customers and positioning solutions to address their needs.
- Collaborating with internal teams, Account Executives, Channel Partners, Product Specialists, Account Managers, and Solution Engineers to streamline sales processes and enhance overall customer satisfaction
- Conducting market research and staying informed about industry trends to identify new opportunities and maintain a competitive edge in the Indian market
- Providing regular updates and forecasts on sales performance to senior management.
- Developing and maintaining a deep understanding of the company's products and services to effectively communicate their value proposition to customers.
- Traveling as necessary to meet with clients, attend industry events, and participate in conferences.
- Mentoring and providing guidance to junior members of the sales team, if applicable.
our Background:
- 10+ years of quota-carrying Software Sales Experience
- Experience driving transformation deals in large global accounts with multi-million dollar spend thresholds
- Deep customer and market expertise with India's largest GCC's across banking, government, Solution Integrators and Technology.
- Experience engaging and building C-level and other executive relationships
- Experience navigating complex procurement processes with multiple stakeholders and complex purchasing needs
- Proficient in leading and guiding a highly matrixed support team across geographies, getting cross functional teams aligned and marching toward the same goals
- Experience managing key customer relationships and closing strategic sales opportunities
- Extensive experience utilising a CRM to achieve and correlate key performance metrics
- Building and leading territory & strategic account plans
- Experience leading or coordinating accounts to drive successful customer outcomes
- Proactively engages customers with a consultative, solution-oriented approach in discovering new opportunities
- Proven track record of meeting or exceeding performance targets
- Excited to engage and influence your team, driving strength, passion, and excitement to your colleagues
Skills Required
- 10+ years of quota-carrying Software Sales Experience
- Experience driving transformation deals in large global accounts
- Deep customer and market expertise with India's largest GCC's
- Experience engaging and building C-level relationships
- Experience navigating complex procurement processes
- Proficient in leading a matrixed support team
- Experience managing key customer relationships
- Extensive experience utilising a CRM
- Experience leading territory & strategic account plans
- Proven track record of meeting or exceeding performance targets
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How does Atlassian ensure its pay and bonus plans are competitive?
Atlassian approaches compensation through a total rewards strategy that combines salary, bonuses, equity, healthcare benefits, flexibility and long-term career development opportunities. The company competes for talent across enterprise software, cloud infrastructure, AI, product development and global technology markets while supporting employees across engineering, product, sales, customer success and operations organizations.
Competitive compensation and equity opportunities: Atlassian offers market-based compensation packages that may include salary, annual bonuses, commissions and RSUs depending on role and level. Employees frequently reference strong compensation, equity participation and competitive pay relative to the broader technology industry. Atlassian is often recognized positively on compensation-related workplace rankings and employee review platforms.
Healthcare and wellness support: Benefits include medical, dental and vision coverage, mental health resources, wellness programs, disability insurance, life insurance and broader wellbeing support initiatives. Atlassian also emphasizes employee wellness through flexibility, mental health resources and work-life balance programs designed to support distributed employees globally.
Retirement and financial wellbeing: Employees receive retirement planning support, 401(k) programs with company matching in eligible regions and broader financial wellness resources. Atlassian’s compensation philosophy emphasizes supporting both immediate financial wellbeing and long-term employee growth.
Flexibility and distributed work support: Atlassian’s Team Anywhere model is a major part of its broader employee value proposition. Employees frequently cite remote flexibility, work-life balance and distributed work support as meaningful contributors to overall job satisfaction and retention.
Career growth and long-term investment: Compensation is reinforced through internal mobility, mentorship, leadership development and opportunities to work on highly visible enterprise software and AI initiatives. Employees often describe career development and ownership opportunities as major strengths of the overall Atlassian experience.
Culture and workplace experience: Employees frequently highlight collaborative coworkers, approachable managers and transparent leadership communication as important parts of the company’s overall value proposition beyond compensation alone. Atlassian’s culture is often associated with strong employee experience and sustainable work practices.
External signals:
- Compensation Reputation: Employees on Glassdoor and Comparably frequently rate Atlassian’s compensation, RSUs and benefits positively relative to peer enterprise software companies.
- Benefits Satisfaction: Comparably reports strong employee satisfaction scores tied to compensation, benefits and work-life balance categories.
- Flexibility as Total Rewards Value: Atlassian leaders reported applications per role doubled after implementing Team Anywhere, reinforcing flexibility as a major component of the company’s broader employee value proposition.
- Retention and Talent Competitiveness: Atlassian continues competing aggressively for cloud, AI and enterprise software talent while expanding investments in AI-powered collaboration and enterprise technologies.
- Equity and Long-Term Incentives: Employees frequently reference equity opportunities and long-term career growth as important parts of the overall compensation experience.
Bottom line: Atlassian supports competitive compensation through a combination of salary, bonuses, equity, benefits, flexibility and long-term career growth opportunities tied to enterprise software and AI innovation at global scale.
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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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