- Ms Bharadwaj joined Atlassian in 2014 as the Head of Product for Jira and has held a variety of roles at the company during her tenure
- Her remit with the new structure brings the design, product, and engineering teams closer to enhance overall productivity: Atlassian
Atlassian Corporation, a leading provider of team collaboration and productivity software, recently 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. She is a member of OutSystem’s board of directors and serves as the Director of Atlassian Foundation.
Calling her an accomplished executive with a track record of growing $500M+ businesses, the company added that she is building great teams and shipping blockbuster products while being passionate about making the world a better place through technology and effective philanthropy. It further noted that her remit with the new structure brings the design, product, and engineering teams closer to enhance focus, efficiency, and speed.
The newly-promoted official remarked: “Atlassian has always been long-term focused. Despite the current macroeconomic environment, we’re bullish on embracing our largest growth opportunities. 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.”
Ms Bharadwaj holds a Bachelor of Engineering in Computer Science from R.V. College of Engineering and resides in San Francisco, California. Before her stint at Atlassian, Ms Anu was at Microsoft and launched several products for Microsoft Visual Studio for over 10 years.
Most recently, she served as Atlassian’s Chief Operating Officer, a role she has held since August 2021. As per the company, she is known for leading transformative initiatives across product lines at Atlassian, including the enterprise business, cloud platform teams and operations.
Co-founder and co-CEO of Atlassian, Mike Cannon-Brookes stated, “Anu has had an extraordinary impact on Atlassian over the last 9 years. 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.”
Atlassian’s team collaboration and productivity software aim to help teams organize, discuss, and complete shared work. The company claims that teams of over 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.
