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Senior Account Executive, Public Sector

Atlassian


Job Location:

Washington DC, WA - USA

Monthly Salary: $ 150100 - 196025
Posted: 14 May 2026 (30+ days ago)
Application Deadline: 8 October 2026
Vacancies: 1 Vacancy
The job posting is outdated and position may be filled

Department:

Sales

Job Summary

Overview

Working at Atlassian

Atlassians can choose where they work whether in an office from home or a combination of the two. That way Atlassians have more control over supporting their family personal goals and other priorities. We can hire people in any country where we have a legal entity.

Responsibilities

As a Public Sector Enterprise Advocate you are responsible for deeply understanding your customers and how they are leveraging Atlassians suite of products. You will be nurturing and growing existing relationships and working diligently to build new ones. Through strategic account planning client management and consistent demonstration of value creation you will drive the execution of our profound goals most notably our customers migration to our FedRAMP cloud offering.

At the same time you will be the customer account lead setting direction and guiding orchestration for all of our support and cross functional teams who engage with our customers on their journey with Atlassian such as Channel Partners Solutions Engineers and more. You will be a critical liaison between our executives in product and engineering and our customers to help guide direction of future roadmap and constantly improve our customer experience.

Are you customer-obsessed and creative Can you effectively organize resources to meet the needs of our customers Do you love the Enterprise Sales process and can help us apply your knowledge to the Atlassian sales model If so wed love you on our team!

This is a career changing opportunity for the right Enterprise professional. You would report directly into the Director of Federal Sales.

Qualifications

Qualifications

  • 8 years experience of Federal software sales experience focusing on strategic account management

  • Strong relationships with Government Agencies Solutions Partners and Resellers

  • Deep knowledge of Government contracts and procurement vehicles

  • Experience with achieving success in customer-first SaaS organizations

  • You excel when engaging directly with enterprise customers with a consultative relationship-oriented approach

  • Experience using CRM Pipeline Management and Analytic tools

  • You are someone who wants to challenge the traditional Sales Model and improve sales processes.

  • You love working cross-departmentally take the initiative to get stuff done try new things and are willing to be an advocate and voice for the public sector business

  • Experience working with and advising C-level customers and stakeholders to drive outcomes

It would be great if you also had:

  • Experience transitioning customers from traditional on premise deployment models to FedRAMP certified SaaS solutions

  • Entrepreneurial spirit combined with experience navigating the cross-departmental ecosystem of a larger matrix organization

  • Background in some or all of Atlassians products

  • Experience selling DevSecOps or ITSM solutions

Compensation

At Atlassian we strive to design equitable explainable and competitive compensation programs. To support this goal the baseline of our range is higher than that of the typical market range but in turn we expect to hire most candidates near this baseline. Base pay within the range is ultimately determined by a candidates skills expertise or experience.

In the United States we have three geographic pay zones. For this role our current base pay ranges for new hires in each zone are:

Zone A: $180900 - $236175

Zone B: $162800 - $212558

Zone C: $150100 - $196025

This role may also be eligible for benefits bonuses commissions and equity.

Please visit for more information on which locations are included in each of our geographic pay zones. However please confirm the zone for your specific location with your recruiter.

Benefits & Perks

Atlassian offers a wide range of perks and benefits designed to support you your family and to help you engage with your local community. Our offerings include health and wellbeing resources paid volunteer days and so much more. To learn more visit Atlassian

At Atlassian were motivated by a common goal: to unleash the potential of every team. Our software products help teams all over the planet and our solutions are designed for all types of work. Team collaboration through our tools makes what may be impossible alone possible together.

We believe that the unique contributions of all Atlassians create our success. To ensure that our products and culture continue to incorporate everyones perspectives and experience we never discriminate based on race religion national origin gender identity or expression sexual orientation age or marital veteran or disability status. All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.

To provide you the best experience we can support with accommodations or adjustments at any stage of the recruitment process. Simply inform our Recruitment team during your conversation with them.

To learn more about our culture and hiring process visit line with local law identity verification (which may include use of biometric data) is a condition of employment with Atlassian for employment fraud purposes.


Required Experience:

Senior IC


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