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title: "Jira Admin"
company: "South Geeks"
company_url: "https://www.remjobs.works/companies/south-geeks"
url: "https://www.remjobs.works/job/south-geeks-jira-admin-ed160d07-cefa-479a-ae46-7c6edd79c352"
apply_url: "https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/southgeeks/96864a5c-52d1-46eb-a578-28a92d7a6c6e"
workplace: remote
location: "Remote"
employment_type: full-time
seniority: mid
role: software-engineering
region: other
skills: ["graphql", "jira"]
date_posted: 2026-09-08T21:20:33.905Z
first_seen_by_remjobs: 2026-09-15T18:13:01.371Z
---

# Jira Admin

**South Geeks** · Remote

Apply: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/southgeeks/96864a5c-52d1-46eb-a578-28a92d7a6c6e

## About the role

Hi there :)

Thanks for checking in to find out about our open position. We´ll provide as much information as possible, but please feel free to reach us if you have further questions. We´ll be happy to see your application, even if there are skills you don't quite master!

**ABOUT US**

At South Geeks, we connect top-performing engineers from Latin America with global organizations building meaningful, long-term products. We focus on high-impact work, strong technical environments, and creating spaces where professionals can grow, contribute, and thrive.

**ABOUT THE CLIENT**

Our client is a global nonprofit technology organization dedicated to helping people discover, preserve, and connect family history data. They operate large-scale, cloud-based platforms used by millions worldwide, and portfolio and strategy management inside Jira is becoming central to how their work gets planned and funded.

**ABOUT THE ROLE**

We're looking for a hands-on Jira Admin with deep expertise in Atlassian's ecosystem to design, validate, implement, and own an outcome-based planning system across Jira Premium, Atlassian Goals, and Jira Product Discovery (JPD).

You'll lead the client's move from a custom Jira hierarchy (Initiative → Work Plan → Milestone → Epic → Story) into outcome-based quarterly planning (Objectives → Strategic Plays → Business Outcomes → Product Outcomes → Epics → Stories), run a small Planning Center of Excellence that teaches product groups how to work in the new model and build the cost visibility leadership needs to decide what to fund.

**KEY RESPONSIBILITIES**

- Lead the Planning Center of Excellence: hands-on training, documentation, office hours, and pairing with teams adopting the new model.

- Assess the current Jira Premium hierarchy, workflows, boards, reporting model, and internal executive-reporting tool.

- Validate whether Atlassian Goals is the right foundation for the strategy layer.

- Design the model for Strategic Objectives, Strategic Plays, Business Outcomes, and Product Outcomes, and their relationships to Teams, Jira work items, and success measures.

- Develop an approach for calculating and tracking the cost of Objectives, Strategic Plays, and Business Outcomes.

- Define when to use Atlassian Goals, Jira Premium hierarchy/custom issue types, Jira Product Discovery, native Jira, marketplace apps, or custom development.

- Establish the quarterly outcome-based planning operating model: approvals, cross-team capacity/time-boxing, milestone/release patterns, workflow/board/permission design.

- Prototype the recommended approach in a sandbox and define a safe migration path to production.

- Design reporting patterns for executives, product leaders, and delivery teams.

- Document the recommended architecture, workflows, governance model, and implementation roadmap.**REQUIRED SKILLS & EXPERIENCE**

- Deep hands-on expertise with Jira Cloud Premium and Advanced Roadmaps/Plans.

- Strong, current expertise with Atlassian Goals (nested goals, measures, Teams, work-item links, permissions, APIs).

- Practical experience with Jira Product Discovery and its connection to product strategy and delivery planning.

- Experience designing Jira hierarchy models for large or complex product organizations.

- Experience moving organizations from output/project-based planning to outcome-based, quarterly planning.

- Strong understanding of Jira workflows, boards, permissions, custom fields, automation, releases, and reporting.

- Experience with capacity planning, estimation, or cost modeling for product/portfolio work.

- Experience evaluating and implementing Atlassian Marketplace apps.

- Experience training and enabling teams adopting portfolio and strategy management in Jira.**NICE TO HAVE**

- Experience leading or standing up a Center of Excellence or similar enablement function.

- Experience with Lean Portfolio Management, OKRs, or similar outcome-management approaches.

- Familiarity with GraphQL/API integrations and data-platform-driven metric updates.

- Experience with Jira migrations, sandbox pilots and phased rollout plans.

- Atlassian certifications are a plus, though practitioner experience matters more.**WHAT WE OFFER**

- Long-term project

- 100% remote work

- Payment in USD

- Paid Time Off (PTO)

- Work-from-home & training reimbursement

- English lessons

- Technical training

- Career coaching

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