Senior Manager, Solutions Engineering Strategic EMEA - DACH

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Atlassian is looking for a Senior Manager to lead the Solutions Engineering (SE) team within some of our Strategic market segments across EMEA. You will manage a partial EMEA remit.
This leader will be vital in shaping a rapidly growing team and a critical function within the Atlassian sales team. Atlassian's Solutions Engineering team partners with our direct sales and channel sales teams to deliver technical expertise in the sales cycle and assist in qualifying and closing high-value strategic opportunities while shaping the customer's solutions purchasing decisions across the full Atlassian suite of products. The ideal candidate will possess a unique blend of technical expertise, strategic thinking, and leadership skills.
As the Senior Manager of the EMEA Strategic organization, you will focus on building credibility and trust with the technical leaders in our customers & prospects by developing cross-functional strategies and solutions. Our team brings technical expertise, real-world experience, strong executive engagement skills, and an inspirational mindset to help our customers understand the opportunities of Atlassian's "System of Work" Platform. We act as technical leaders, assisting customers to solve their most complex business challenges through the value they realize from Atlassian solutions. We do this by leveraging best practices and industry standards to build customer trust, align with business outcomes, and architect best-in-class solutions.
Leadership & Team Development:

• Lead, mentor, and inspire a growing team of Solutions Engineers, fostering a culture of excellence, innovation, and continuous learning in an AI-first sales environment.
• Develop and implement training programs that enhance the team's technical depth, AI fluency, and consultative sales skills - with a focus on delivering live value demonstrations over traditional presentations.
• Build and optimize scalable processes that support rapid growth, including structured DRI (Directly Responsible Individual) models that protect contributor focus and maximize field impact.
• Provide thought leadership across Atlassian business units and stakeholders, helping shape the go-to-market model for the Strategic and Enterprise market segments.
• Continue building team domain disciplines across AI and Intelligent Automation, Cloud Migration, IT Service Management, Enterprise Agile, DevOps, and Work Management - with particular emphasis on positioning Atlassian's AI capabilities in complex accounts.
• Establish performance metrics and conduct regular evaluations, connecting individual excellence to team-level outcomes and measurable business impact.

Strategic Planning & Execution:

• Collaborate with senior leadership to define and execute a Solutions Engineering strategy aligned to the Strategic segment, with clear input into annual and quarterly planning cycles.
• Define and operationalize "Metrics that Matter" to manage the business effectively - including AI-assisted deal velocity, SE influence on win rate, and POC-to-close conversion rates.
• Champion field-led feedback loops as a strategic input to product and GTM prioritization, ensuring SE insights are systematically surfaced to Product and Marketing teams.
• Identify and prioritize key market opportunities, with emphasis on cloud platform consolidation, AI adoption, and enterprise-wide Atlassian deployments.
• Ensure proper alignment of SE resources across regions, account tiers, and solution domains - balancing reactive deal support with proactive pipeline-building activity.

Customer Engagement & Solution Design:

• Lead high-impact sales pursuits across EMEA engaging Executive Architects, Directors, VPs, and C-suite stakeholders throughout the full customer lifecycle.
• Provide technical leadership during discovery, solution design, executive briefings, demonstrations, and POC engagements - with an emphasis on co-creating outcomes with the customer.
• Drive AI-led demo and value engineering capabilities within the team, enabling SEs to deliver personalized, data-driven presentations that resonate with executive buyers.
• Partner with Marketing to design effective pipeline generation activities in the Strategic segment, including account-based plays and new routes to market.
• Leverage customer success stories and Voice of Customer (VOC) insights as proof points in active sales motions, connecting real-world outcomes to prospect priorities.
• Demonstrate strong executive alignment with key Partner and Channel resources, building joint engagement models for strategic accounts.

Cross-Functional Collaboration:

• Serve as the primary liaison between Solutions Engineering and Product, Marketing, R&D, and Sales Enablement - translating field signals into actionable product and roadmap input.
• Maintain a rigorous and structured feedback loop with Product teams, delivering prioritized field perspectives on roadmap investment through a repeatable, DRI-accountable model.
• Partner with Sales Enablement to evolve SE-specific training, certification paths, and role readiness frameworks that keep pace with a rapidly changing product and competitive landscape.
• Drive the creation of high-quality technical collateral - including whitepapers, solution briefs, AI use case narratives, and customer case studies - in partnership with Product Marketing.
• Collaborate on event strategy and content programming to amplify SE expertise and customer success narratives at scale, including flagship events and customer summits.

Market & Industry Expertise:

• Stay current on industry trends, competitive dynamics, and emerging technologies - with particular depth in enterprise AI platforms, ITSM modernization, and agile-at-scale transformations.
• Understand and navigate regional market nuances across the global customer base, including cultural and organizational decision-making differences that influence enterprise buying behavior.
• Represent Atlassian at industry conferences, customer events, and advisory forums - contributing thought leadership on AI adoption, team productivity, and enterprise transformation.
• Develop and maintain strong relationships with key industry analysts, partners, and customer stakeholders to build Atlassian's strategic presence in the market.

The SE team's expertise is critical to developing solution-based opportunities in our high-growth business and shaping the enablement and go-to-market perspective around those solutions. You will partner with a diverse set of stakeholders - direct sales, channel sales, field marketing, product marketing, and sales enablement - to define and drive areas of joint execution. Given the broad demand for your team's time and expertise, you will need to negotiate prioritization to ensure SE involvement is deployed where it creates the greatest business impact.

• Proven experience in sales engineering, with at least five years in a leadership role within a global, high-growth technology
• Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Computer Science, or a related field; MBA or advanced technical degree preferred.
• Successfully led diverse teams to reach challenging goals and can leverage organizational networks to get things done. Be Hungry and Humble.
• Passion and energy for building business relationships, and is accustomed to driving the simplification of complex concepts into compelling customer proposals
• Drive for results using out-of-the-box innovative thinkin,g together with excellent problem-solving skills
• The ability to multiply the effect of a team through situational leadership, constant challenge, and a team-first mindset
• Strong written and oral communication skills and the ability to manage your time effectively are critical.
• Ideally, we're looking for someone with a prior background in solutions selling to Software Development or IT c-suite/SVPs/VP leadership and who understands the ecosystem of potential integrations and partnerships we would work with.
• Experience managing distributed remote teams is a plus.
• You want to be part of something big. You are up for the challenge of running a team within a fast-growing organization and balancing the team's needs with the business's needs.
• You enjoy mentoring and inspiring your team with a growth mindset.
• Fluent in German and English

Compensation
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This role may also be eligible for benefits, bonuses, commissions, and equity.
Benefits & Perks
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