Senior Data Scientist

Working at Atlassian
Atlassian can hire people in any country where we have a legal entity. Assuming you have eligible working rights and a sufficient time zone overlap with your team, you can choose to work remotely or return to an office as they reopen (unless it’s necessary for your role to be performed in the office). Interviews and onboarding are conducted virtually, a part of being a distributed-first company.
Do you have a passion for creating products and insights with data and do you love finding the next big ‘aha’ which changes the way a business thinks about their customers?
We’d love you to join us!
We are looking for a Senior Data Scientist to join our Product Data Science team. We’re seeking someone with strong business instincts, creativity and analytics mastery, who is passionate about applying these skills to build data and analytics foundations that drive smarter product decisions and ultimately, delight our customers.
You’ll be part of Atlassian’s newly formed multi-discipline Point A organisation whose mission is to build the next generation of products to power the future of teamwork. Point A connects our early adopters to our product teams so we can build the tools together!

In this role you'll get to:

• Collaborate with product leaders to identify high impact opportunities for analysis and align analytics & data science priorities with the company strategy and product roadmap
• Design targeted explorations of our seriously big data, in order to understand trends, find opportunities, and make recommendations to improve user journeys and customer value
• Drive the measurement culture and understand the impact our product strategy
• Envision, scope, and execute projects by collaborating with partners, customer research, data engineers and other analysts
• Share your high-quality insights and recommendations to various levels of leadership to drive critical business decisions
• Be part of building an outstanding analytics culture at Atlassian. Leading by example, through education and creation of self-service tools, to make a lasting change in how your partners use data to make decisions

On the first day, we'll expect you to have:

• Experience applying your analytics skills to projects which have had a positive impact to company level business and product decisions
• An agile development mentality, appreciating the benefit of constant iteration and improvement
• A very high bar for output quality, balancing "having something now" vs. "perfection in the future"
• Strong ability to communicate and influence; create compelling insights, explaining data science concepts to diverse audiences, and building decision confidence by sharing expertise of facts and uncertainties
• Familiarity working with Product Management, Engineering, Design, Customer Research and Data Engineering teams
• Expertise in data manipulation and statistical programming languages (e.g. SQL, R, Python), and knowledge of cloud data environments (e.g. AWS)
• Proficiency in at least one visualization tool (e.g. Tableau)
• 5+ years of experience in using statistics as part of your role (e.g. regressions, A/B tests, forecasting)

It's a bonus, but not required, if you have:

• 5+ years of experience in customer or product analytics, particularly in delivering outputs which can be used to advance analytics projects across an organisation
• 5+ years of experiencein building ETL pipelines using any tools or scripting languages
• Are an active member of the broader analytics and data science community
• A degree in a quantitative field (e.g. statistics, mathematics, physics, econometrics, or computer science)

Our perks & benefits
To support you at work and play, our perks and benefits include ample time off, an annual education budget, paid volunteer days, and so much more.
About Atlassian
The world’s best teams work better together with Atlassian. From medicine and space travel, to disaster response and pizza deliveries, Atlassian software products help teams all over the planet. At Atlassian, we're motivated by a common goal: to unleash the potential of every team.
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