Software Engineering Leadership Advisor

Job title: Software Engineering Leadership Advisor

About the Role

DX recently joined Atlassian, expanding resources behind our mission. We’re looking for a Software Engineering Leadership Advisor to join the DX team as a practitioner voice and executive-level advisor. The ideal candidate has scaled engineering organizations and made real decisions about developer productivity with tangible impact, and is respected by Fortune 500 VPs of Engineering and CTOs.

What You'll Do

• Practitioner commentary and thought leadership: Provide practitioner-grounded commentary on research findings, data analyses, and frameworks produced by the research team; translate data into guidance for running a 500-person engineering organization.

• Co-author and contribute to flagship reports, essays, and talks.

• Develop and contribute to practitioner frameworks, playbooks, and maturity models drawn from your own experience and your network's collective wisdom.

• Executive advisory and customer engagement: Serve as a trusted advisor to DX's largest customers and prospects; lead workshops, advisory sessions, and executive briefings where engineering leaders seek guidance.

• Participate in customer inquiries and consultations helping engineering leaders apply DX's research and data to their specific organizational challenges.

• Build and maintain relationships with senior engineering leaders across the industry; you should already have a network of VPs of Engineering, CTOs, and Heads of Platform/DevEx.

• External presence and industry influence: Represent DX on conference stages, executive panels, industry podcasts, and at invite-only dinners and roundtables; be a visible, recognized voice in the developer productivity and engineering leadership community.

• Shipping cadence: Two small ships per month and one big ship per quarter; examples include: trend takeaways with practical guidance, lessons or frameworks from your experience, and executive dinner takeaways.

• What We're Looking For

• You've led engineering organizations or platform/developer experience teams at scale—typically as a VP of Engineering, Head of Platform, Head of Developer Experience, Senior Director of Engineering, or similar. You've made real decisions about developer productivity, tooling, and team design with real consequences.

• You are known and respected by senior engineering leaders; VPs of Engineering and CTOs at Fortune 500 companies would take your call, attend your talk, or want you at their dinner table.

• You've been on stages, on panels, on podcasts, or in rooms where senior engineering leaders gather.

• You can provide sharp, credible commentary on data and research without needing to run the analysis yourself. You know how to read a dataset, provide commentary or reactions, and translate it into guidance that a busy CTO would act on.

• You're a strong writer and communicator.

• You're opinionated but intellectually honest. You have strong views on how engineering organizations should be run, but you update those views when the evidence changes.

• Nice to Have

• Not specified in posting.

• Compensation & Benefits

• Salary not disclosed; details to be discussed during interview. You are trained on data up to October 2023.