Atlassian Announces Promotion of Anutthara Bharadwaj to President

Global role expansion brings design, product and engineering teams together under one umbrella 

Bangalore, February 20, 2023 – Atlassian Corporation (NASDAQ: TEAM), a leading provider of team collaboration and productivity software, announced the promotion of Anutthara Bharadwaj to President. In her new role, Ms. Bharadwaj will lead and support the newly unified ‘Markets and Transformations’ organization. With a focus on accelerating product innovation and driving enterprise adoption, her remit with the new structure brings the design, product, and engineering teams closer together than ever before to execute with more focus, efficiency, and speed. 

“Atlassian has always been long-term focused. Despite the current macroeconomic environment, we’re bullish on embracing our largest growth opportunities,” said Ms. Bharadwaj, President, Atlassian. “And that starts with uniting our products cohesively. Being focused and disciplined in this environment means we can remain nimble while executing with efficiency, emerging stronger than ever.” 

An accomplished executive with a track record of growing $1 billion+ businesses, building cohesive teams and shipping great products, Anu joined Atlassian in 2014 as the Head of Product for Jira. Most recently, she served as Atlassian’s Chief Operating Officer, a role she has held since August 2021. She is known for leading transformative initiatives across product lines at Atlassian, including the enterprise business, cloud platform teams and operations. 

“Anu has had an extraordinary impact on Atlassian over the last 9 years,” said Mike Cannon-Brookes, Co-Founder and Co-CEO, Atlassian. “She’s a force of nature with a strong bias for taking action, on top of her ability to lead teams at scale that build on Atlassian's culture of innovation. A close partner to Scott and me over the years, Anu's expanded scope will see us work even more closely as we continue to serve our customers, helping them to unleash the potential of every team.” 

Prior to joining Atlassian, Ms. Bharadwaj served in various leadership positions at Microsoft Corporation. She is passionate about making the world a better place through technology and effective philanthropy, serving as a member of OutSystem’s board of directors and as the Chairperson of Atlassian Foundation. Ms. Bharadwaj holds a Bachelor of Engineering in Computer Science from R.V. College of Engineering and resides in San Francisco, California. 

About Atlassian 

Atlassian unleashes the potential of every team. Our team collaboration and productivity software help teams organize, discuss, and complete shared work. Teams of more than 250,000 customers, across large and small organizations - including Bank of America, Redfin, NASA, Verizon, and Dropbox - use Atlassian’s project tracking, content creation and sharing, and service management products to work better together and deliver quality results on time. Learn more about our products, including Jira Software, Confluence, Jira Service Management, Trello, Bitbucket, and Jira Align at https://atlassian.com/.