Anu Bharadwaj

CEO

San Francisco, California, United States21 yrs 3 mos experience

Highly Stable

Key Highlights

Led Atlassian's SaaS transformation and cloud enterprise growth.
Built billion-dollar businesses for high-growth startups.
Passionate about empowering diverse founders and teams.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS executive with extensive experience in product management and engineering leadership.

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Agile MethodologiesTFSVisual StudioSoftware DevelopmentAgile Project ManagementAgile TestingSoftware DesignTest AutomationProduct ManagementScrumSoftware Quality AssuranceSoftware Project ManagementProgram ManagementWeb ServicesSoftware Engineering

About

President of Atlassian, a leading technology company that helps millions of teams transform the way they collaborate. As an accomplished executive with 20+ years of experience in leading transformations and building billion-dollar businesses for high-growth startups and enterprises, I bring deep expertise across Product, Operations, Strategy, CorpDev and Engineering to help teams deliver customer-focused growth. As COO of Atlassian, I was responsible for scaling a distributed workforce in 13 countries while leading Atlassian’s SaaS transformation, building the Cloud enterprise business, and scaling cloud platform teams. Before Atlassian, I held various leadership roles at Microsoft, and launched multiple products in Visual Studio. I am deeply passionate about growing diverse teams and making the world a better place with technology. I love helping diverse founders on their mission of building bold and exciting companies. I served on the board of Outsystems, advise young and emerging companies and am part of the Operator Collective venture fund that pioneered the collective venture model to empower diverse founders. Contact: please reach out to press@atlassian.com

Experience

21 yrs 3 mos

Total Experience

6 yrs

Average Tenure

7 mos

Current Experience

Toast

Member Board of Directors

Sep 2025 – Present · 7 mos

Atlassian

6 roles

President

Feb 2023 – Mar 2026 · 3 yrs 1 mo

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

Promoted

Aug 2021 – Feb 2023 · 1 yr 6 mos

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

Promoted

Mar 2020 – Jul 2021 · 1 yr 4 mos

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

Head of Product, Atlassian Cloud

Promoted

Sep 2017 – Mar 2020 · 2 yrs 6 mos

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

Jan 2017 – Sep 2017 · 8 mos

Head of Product Strategy, reporting to the CEO, responsible for articulating, driving and organizing corporate product strategy across the Atlassian product lines. Primary job function included company strategy, market analysis & trendspotting, advising on company M&A strategy, product reviews and cross-product strategy planning

Head of Product, Jira

Jan 2014 – Dec 2015 · 1 yr 11 mos · Sydney, Australia

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.

Operator collective

Limited Partner

Oct 2021 – Present · 4 yrs 6 mos

Outsystems

Board Member

Jun 2021 – Jul 2024 · 3 yrs 1 mo

Microsoft

4 roles

Principal Group Program Manager

Aug 2011 – Dec 2013 · 2 yrs 4 mos

Product lead in Visual Studio. Shipped Release Management & Load Testing services to enable teams to do faster and more frequent releases via continuous deployment.

Senior Program Manager

Promoted

Aug 2009 – Jul 2011 · 1 yr 11 mos

Conceptualized, designed and released Microsoft Test Manager and Visual Studio Quality. 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

Promoted

Aug 2006 – Jul 2009 · 2 yrs 11 mos

Worked as a lead engineer responsible for build automation in Visual Studio, core development scenarios for J# developers and UI testing APIs. Built a team of high performing engineers, was awarded a patent as sole inventor for innovative test automation engine work in the MSBuild test automation system