Field CTO -Public Sector (AMER)

Overview

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.

Responsibilities

Overview

Atlassian is seeking a visionary and influential Public Sector Field Chief Technology Officer (fCTO) to serve as a trusted technology advisor to government agencies, defense organizations, educational institutions, and companies that support public-sector missions.

The Public Sector Field CTO helps executives navigate technology modernization, organizational transformation, security, compliance, and cloud adoption. This role connects customer mission needs to Atlassian’s product and platform strategy, helping public-sector organizations modernize collaboration, service delivery, software development, and enterprise work management at scale.

This is not a traditional CTO or sales engineering role. You will represent Atlassian with CIOs, CTOs, CISOs, digital leaders, agency executives, and industry partners while influencing Atlassian internally through customer insight, roadmap feedback, public-sector thought leadership, and cross-functional leadership. You will operate at the intersection of mission outcomes, technology strategy, regulatory requirements, and business value.

Mission and Impact

Public-sector customers operate in complex environments shaped by mission priorities, procurement requirements, security controls, sovereignty concerns, legacy systems, and heightened expectations for operational resilience. The Public Sector fCTO makes these challenges understandable and actionable for both customers and Atlassian teams.

• Help public-sector leaders connect Atlassian solutions to measurable mission, service-delivery, and modernization outcomes.
• Build trust by translating technical capabilities, cloud boundaries, and compliance considerations into clear executive narratives.
• Bring the voice of government customers into product, engineering, security, compliance, and go-to-market decisions.
• Help scale repeatable patterns for executive engagement, customer adoption, field enablement, and public-sector transformation.

Key ResponsibilitiesPublic-Sector Executive Advisory

• Act as a trusted advisor to CIOs, CTOs, CISOs, agency executives, digital service leaders, and mission owners on technology strategy, modernization, governance, risk, and organizational agility.
• Lead executive briefings, board-level discussions, roundtables, advisory sessions, and strategic 1:1 engagements.
• Understand agency missions, operating models, procurement realities, and stakeholder priorities, then connect them to practical technology strategies.
• Frame Atlassian’s value in terms of mission effectiveness, service resilience, workforce productivity, software delivery, transparency, and risk reduction.

Public-Sector Technology and Compliance

• Provide architectural guidance for enterprise-scale adoption, cloud migration, platform consolidation, and operational best practices.
• Help customers understand the relevance and boundaries of offerings such as Atlassian Government Cloud, including FedRAMP Moderate use cases and shared-responsibility considerations.
• Engage credibly on FedRAMP, NIST, RMF, CUI, ITAR, DoD Impact Levels, sovereign cloud, air-gapped environments, data residency, identity, access, and operational resilience.
• Partner with security, legal, compliance, product, and eng...

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