Principal Product Manager — IAM & Identity Platform / Guard

Role Description

We are the product team behind Guard — the enterprise control plane for Atlassian: the layer that governs who can do what, under what policy, with what proof. The most defensible thing we build is the ability to govern Atlassian from inside Atlassian — at the identity, the permission, the policy decision, the configuration, the action, and the data. External SIEM, CASB, and agent-governance vendors look at Atlassian; only we can govern inside it.

Our work spans five pillars:

• Identity & access foundations — SCIM, Units, External Users, Tenant Access Restrictions, service account lifecycle, API token management, FedRAMP parity.
• Roles & permissions — Custom Roles, Delegated Admin Roles, Unit Admin Role, PAM, granular admin permissions.
• Policy platform — one unified, composable policy model, enforced across Rovo, connectors, MCP, and admin APIs.
• AI & agent governance — the permission gateway (identity → policy → scoped token), MCP governance, on-behalf-of consent, and agent attribution.
• Governance experience — Governance Manager, continuous monitoring, and auditor-ready evidence.

Because this is a broad, ambiguous, high-leverage role, the day-to-day will vary. Over time, this person is likely to take on a mix of activities such as:

• Owning ambiguous, cross-cutting problems that don't sit cleanly inside one existing team's remit.
• Driving strategy and technical product direction for foundational primitives.
• Partnering deeply with engineering across teams whose ownership is split.
• Shaping and sequencing hard platform tradeoffs.
• Working cross-org with adjacent teams.
• Wedge-driven delivery — standing up end-to-end scenarios.
• Representing the team with enterprise customers and internal stakeholders.

Qualifications

• A Principal-level product manager comfortable operating with significant ambiguity.
• Depth in platform/infrastructure product management — identity, access management, security, policy, or a closely related domain.
• Strong technical fluency — able to earn the trust of senior engineers and architects.
• A track record of owning cross-cutting, multi-team problems.
• Ability to turn strategy into sequencing — making principled tradeoffs.
• Enterprise and customer instincts — able to translate deep platform work into outcomes.
• A bias toward wedge-first delivery over framework-first platform work.

Benefits

• A wide range of perks and benefits designed to support you and your family.
• Health and wellbeing resources.
• Paid volunteer days.

Company Description

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.

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.