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Anu Bharadwaj

President at Atlassian

San Francisco, California

Overview

Work Experience

  • President

    2023 - Current

    Focused on bringing Product, Business, Design and Engineering teams closer together to deliver innovative products that customers love while supercharging the growth of Atlassian’s businesses.

  • Chief Operating Officer

    2021 - 2023

    Responsible for Enterprise business - Data Center & Cloud, Cloud Platform, Data & Analytics, Marketplace, Partnerships, Corp Dev, M&A, Strategy & Bizops, Programs & Practices, Remote Work

  • VP of Product

    2020 - 2021

    Head of the Enterprise Cloud business & Data Center business across Jira, Confluence, Bitbucket and other product lines.

  • Head of Product, Atlassian Cloud

    2017 - 2020

    Head of Product at Atlassian. Responsible for multi-million dollar portfolio across: 1/ Enterprise Cloud business 2/ Atlassian Marketplace & Ecosystem 3/ Atlassian Platform services My primary responsibilities include: 1/ Running the Atlassian Cloud business, with a specific focus on Enterprise customers. Atlassian Access & Atlassian Cloud Premium are offerings in an Enterprise product line aimed at delivering enhanced security, unified administration and management across Atlassian Cloud products like Jira, Confluence, Trello & Bitbucket. Goals on MRR & MAU growth 2/ Running the Atlassian Marketplace business & growing the Atlassian Cloud ecosystem. Goals on GMV, growth of app availability, overall developer ecosystem health 3/ Owning Atlassian Platform Services, designed to deliver differentiation and scale across Atlassian Cloud products. Responsible for cross product search, data science platform, identity management, mobile platform, growth & experimentation platform, notifications, privacy, compliance & security. OKRs are around NPS, MAU, SLOs and adoption metrics 4/ Incubating new venture bets : run innovation engine to do rapid design and validation of products plus services like Atlassian Home, People Directory etc. 5/ Running the product management team across the portfolio. Built an all-star team of 50 product managers across the world.

  • Head of Product Strategy, Atlassian

    2017 - 2017

    Head of Product Strategy, reporting to the CEO, responsible for articulating, driving and organizing corporate product strategy across the Atlassian product lines. This was an individual contributor role, where I worked with the CEO and GMs of product at Atlassian to plan company strategy. Primary job function included market analysis & trendspotting, advising on company M&A strategy, product reviews and cross-product strategy planning

  • Limited Partner

    2021

  • Board Member

    2021 - 2024

  • Head of Product, Jira

    2014 - 2015

    Head of product management for the Jira family of products. Built a superstar PM team that transformed Jira from a product to a family of products targeted at different markets: Jira Software, Jira Service Desk and Jira Core. Primary responsibilities include: 1/ Growing user base and revenue across Jira family of products. Launched major releases for Jira Server and Cloud delivering devops tooling for Agile software dev teams, scaling for high availability on large deployments and making it easy for non-technical teams to adopt Jira. OKRs are around NPS, Total Server Users, Cloud MAU & MRR 2/ Platformizing Jira to go from one generic monolithic product to a line of products targeted at different markets - Software Development, IT Systems and non-technical teams 3/ M&A for product line - Acquired and launched Jira Portfolio, a product designed for project and portfolio management. OKRs were around NPS, MAU and MRR.

  • Principal Group Program Manager

    2011 - 2013

    Product Owner for all quality enablement scenarios in Visual Studio ALM 2012. Led a team of 12 Program Managers to ship scenarios targeted at enabling software development teams to build high quality software quickly and easily. Toolset includes manual testing for Agile teams using Microsoft Test Manager, functional testing via Coded UI tests, constructing build-deploy-test workflows using virtualized infrastructure via Lab Manager. Managed acquisition of Release Management tooling for Visual Studio ALM 2013 to enable teams to do faster and more frequent releases via continuous deployment. Shipped Preview of Load Testing Service to enable developers to simulate load generation in the cloud to stress their web applications. Drove customer driven development at scale across both releases

  • Senior Program Manager

    2009 - 2011

    Owned tooling and scenarios targeted at manual testers for Visual Studio ALM 2010. Conceptualized, designed and released the Agile testing scenarios in Microsoft Test Manager and Visual Studio. Spearheaded Agile adoption in product team leading to better and faster releases. Contributed to James Whittaker's book on Exploratory Testing and represented Microsoft at several software conferences globally. Was awarded 2 patents - one as sole-inventor and another as primary-inventor for work in advanced automated exploratory testing techniques.

  • Lead Software Design Engineer/Test

    2006 - 2009

    Worked as a lead SDET responsible for overall quality of the product. Led a team of 8 SDETs to ship scenarios centered around build automation in Visual Studio, core development scenarios for J# developers and UI testing APIs. Built a team of high performing engineers with strong focus on upfront quality using a foundation of sound engineering systems. Was awarded a patent as sole inventor for innovative test automation engine work in the MSBuild test automation system

  • Software Design Engineer

    2003 - 2006

    Joined Microsoft Developer Division as a developer working on the Vista WPF SDK and .NET framework. Was responsible for development of Terrarium - an ecosystem evolution based game shipping as part of the .NET SDK. Contributed to development on "Object Test Bench", a tool targeted at academia to make it easy to learn OOPS concepts within the context of Visual Studio IDE.

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