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🌟 Principal Data Scientist – Workforce Management Analytics
📍 Location: San Francisco, CA
🏢 Department: Analytics & Data Science
📅 Employment Type: Full-Time
🚀 About Atlassian
At Atlassian, we offer the flexibility to choose your preferred work environment—whether in the office, remotely, or a mix of both. Our distributed-first approach allows us to hire from any country with a legal entity, and our interviews and onboarding are conducted virtually. We are committed to ensuring you can balance your family, personal goals, and professional aspirations.
💼 Role Overview
We are seeking a Principal Data Scientist to join our team and drive key initiatives in Workforce Management Analytics. In this role, you will work on high-impact projects, collaborating closely with business partners to turn data into actionable insights and visually compelling analytics that inform business strategy. You will play a central role in shaping foundational contributions to analytics, strategy, and operations at Atlassian.
🎯 Key Responsibilities
- Lead a team of data scientists to advance core data artifacts (e.g., Tableau, Redash), improving both functionality and visual impact.
- Collaborate with business and operations leaders to deliver data-driven insights that influence key business decisions.
- Drive efficiency improvements in a rapidly scaling customer support environment by applying analytic capabilities to business challenges.
- Use data visualization, statistics, and operational metrics to support business strategy and execution.
- Propose rapid experiments or A/B tests to assess new strategies or initiatives, iterating quickly for maximum impact.
- Serve as the analytic visualization expert for cross-functional teams, focusing on measurement, opportunity sizing, and understanding complex systems to generate actionable business insights.
🎯 Required Skills & Qualifications
- 8+ years of experience working with data, with a BS in Statistics, Mathematics, Economics, Computer Science, or another quantitative field.
- Proven expertise in data visualization, statistical analysis, and developing operational metrics.
- Extensive experience using SQL, Tableau, R/Python, and Excel for data analysis and reporting.
- Strong business acumen and ability to influence operational teams with data-driven insights.
- Demonstrated success in driving analytic initiatives, engaging non-technical stakeholders, and delivering impactful solutions.
- Excellent communication skills—able to articulate complex data findings in a clear and actionable manner to non-technical partners.
- Ability to tackle ambiguous problems, propose solutions, and iterate quickly to deliver measurable value.
- Enthusiasm for mentoring and growing less experienced analysts.
🎁 Compensation & Benefits
- Competitive base pay within the following ranges based on location:
- Zone A: $175,100 – $233,400
- Zone B: $157,500 – $210,100
- Zone C: $145,300 – $193,700
- Eligibility for bonus, commissions, and equity.
- Comprehensive health coverage, paid volunteer days, wellness resources, and more.
- Flexible work options to support work-life balance.
🌍 Why Atlassian?
At Atlassian, we believe that collaboration is key to unlocking the potential of teams. Our diverse culture and commitment to inclusion fuel our success. We are an equal opportunity employer, and all applicants will receive consideration without regard to race, religion, gender identity, sexual orientation, or disability status. We also provide accommodations throughout the recruitment process upon request.
📩 Apply Now
🔗 Apply Today to make an impact at Atlassian as a Principal Data Scientist!
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