Atlassian is expanding product development into Asia

By Jean-Michel Lemieux
Developer, News
On October 8, 2012

We are looking for the perfect team to partner with us to further grow our product development muscle. The region is home to hundreds of thousands of talented technical people and we would love them to help us solve the challenges of designing and building our world class products.

We are global and we have an expanding international team outside of our Sydney and San Francisco centres. Expanding in Asia will maximize the time overlap with our Sydney product teams as both teams will be closely collaborating on projects.

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The right fit

We are looking for a kick-ass multi-disciplined team of 15+ engineers, designers, and product managers. We are also open to starting with a smaller team, if they can show that they can recruit, build, and motivate a team of talented engineers.

Atlassian is not your standard company, and we’re not looking for a typical offshore partner. We’re looking for a team that is as passionate about creating awesome products as we are, and one who shares our values and innovative culture.

This is a massive opportunity for a small start up or small established software company looking for an opportunity to expand and grow. The selected partner will experience a similar speed of growth to that of Atlassian.

If you’re keen, here’s the link to find out more. If this sounds like your team then apply now!

Tags: Atlassian

Comments (28)

Sounds a lot like atlassian is Offshoring. And i thought you guys were cool.

By James on October 8, 2012 / Reply
- Just like we opened a San Francisco office to service the US market, and a Gdansk office to expand our development team, and a Sao Paulo office to support customers in different time zones, we’re going to expand our development. We’re a global company and we’re looking for talent everywhere. As much as we’d love to relocate tons of people to Sydney, it’s not realistic — they have families, commitments, and roots in their home countries — so we’re bringing Atlassian to them.
  
  By Jean-Michel Lemieux on October 9, 2012
- There’s a difference between moving talent offshore and increasing the pool that you can source talent from. Atlassian is doing the latter.
  
  By James Roper on October 9, 2012
- @Jean-Michel Lemieux, the support office in Brasil is not in Sao Paulo. It’s in Porto Alegre.
  
  By Luzia on October 23, 2012
In the same way as the center in Amsterdam?

By Sandeep Mahajan on October 8, 2012 / Reply
- We are looking for a partner first who is open to transferring to Atlassian over time. Amsterdam was an Atlassian entity from the start.
  
  By Jean-Michel Lemieux on October 9, 2012
Have you considered open an office in Mexico? there is a lot of talent in Mexico. I would love to work with you.

By Cesar on October 9, 2012 / Reply
- Yeah, I hear you. We’ve limited the search to +/-5 hours from Sydney as timezone overlap is an important criteria for us.
  
  By Jean-Michel Lemieux on October 9, 2012
How about Perth? We’re at ;east close to Asia

By Scott on October 10, 2012 / Reply
- Close enough For the right team, Perth would could work too.
  
  By Jean-Michel Lemieux on October 11, 2012
That’s really good news. I’m genuinely interested. You say the new team will be located in South-East Asia. Do you actually include or exclude China?

By George on October 11, 2012 / Reply
- If you have a badass team in China, we are open to considering. Apply and tell us about yourself.
  
  By Jean-Michel Lemieux on October 11, 2012
Good News for Asia

By JITESH UAKNI on October 11, 2012 / Reply
Very Good News for Asian Peoples

By DRC INFOTECH on October 11, 2012 / Reply
Great link. However can I send our details per your email? Tks.

By Maria N on October 11, 2012 / Reply
- Please fill out the application and tell us a bit about yourself.
  
  By Jean-Michel Lemieux on October 11, 2012
You people not considering Bangalore. You should be able to get some Kick ass guys here . Why not explore that.

By Baburaj on October 11, 2012 / Reply
Done. However, we’d like to show our details answer in other way, can we? Tks.

By Maria N on October 11, 2012 / Reply
Thinking out of the box. Good.

Why don’t you also look at setting up your own badass teams in these countries using the multi-cultural talent you have within your own company. For example if you have people who have migrated from some of these countries and work for you directly, they are ideally placed to setup small direct teams for you guys with your backing and funding.

But don’t think you can eliminate the need for good technical guys over here. It needs to have the right balance. Don’t go and put in some non-technical layer to manage this like most of what the rest of the big companies do when outsourcing. That is creating another inefficient layer. But if you build teams that is setup so that they are just an extension to your onsite team, that is a model that will have a better chance of succeeding. And yes don’t do it to purely save costs. Do it to get access to great talent.

By Travis De Slva on October 12, 2012 / Reply
- Travis, it looks like we’re on the same wavelength — we will build the team around a kickass and passionate product and technical leader. Otherwise we would of just partnered with one of those boring, large multinationals. That isn’t our style.
  
  By Jean-Michel Lemieux on October 12, 2012
Emulation is providing Outsource software development. First

of all I will tell u the exact meaning of outsourcing. It means that any job, project, task, problem, operation or process that

could be performed by employees within an organization, but is instead contracted to a third party for a significant period

of time. The functions that are performed by the third party can be performed on-site or off-site. Means outside of Indian

company or Big hearted companies hiring the other companies to complete their side project for broad our business.

Because big hearted companies are concentrate on their core activities.

By emulation on October 18, 2012 / Reply
I missed adding the NDA when I submitted our application. Is there a way I can provide that without having to complete the application again?

Thanks,
Vernon

p.s. Despite being a publicly traded company we’re the antithesis of large, boring multinational.

By Vernon Stinebaker on October 23, 2012 / Reply
Greate news for Asia,

hope to see a atlassian dev office in Viet Nam (if posible),
I have running many excellent products from Atlassian, and can’t imagin how to getting things done without JIRA, Conf today

By Thanh Ly on November 2, 2012 / Reply
It sounds like you are looking for my team Unfortunately I saw the post too late.

By Ivaylo on November 8, 2012 / Reply
I see you have opened a weibo account. That is so cool!

By Simon on December 22, 2012 / Reply
Any decision made?
Have you considered India ops?

By Prakash on December 24, 2012 / Reply
Any thoughts on ‘setting up shop’ in the UK?

By Rachel on January 2, 2013 / Reply
Is this still open @@India ? What are the expectations to partner with a small shop ?? Can we have a small chit-chat to understand each other ???

By Madhu Kiran on January 7, 2013 / Reply