Some conversations stay with you for days. This one did. Last week at Team '26 in Anaheim, I spoke to my favourite Tamar Yehoshua, Chief Product and AI Officer at Atlassian. A week later, I'm still thinking about three things she said.
Here's the thing about Tamar. I always learn something new every time we talk. She's one of those rare leaders who can zoom from a product detail to a 5-year vision in the same breath without missing a beat.
What makes her perspective so useful: Tamar has shipped product at Google Search, led product at Slack through their tenfold growth and IPO, and ran product and technology at Glean. Three different eras of how knowledge workers find what they need at work. And now she's leading Atlassian's AI strategy at the moment the entire category is being redefined.
Team '26 was her first Team event as CPO and AI Officer. You could feel the weight of that moment in the room.
Here's what we got into:
- Day one through her eyes. What it actually felt like to walk on stage as the new CPO and announce the biggest set of AI launches in Atlassian's history.
- The connective thread. Atlassian covered massive ground in the keynote. AI for developers, service teams, product teams, agents in Jira. I asked Tamar how she wants people to think about Atlassian's AI strategy as one story instead of five. Her answer reframed the whole keynote for me.
- How customers are actually using Rovo. Not the marketing version. The real version. What's working, what's surprising, where the patterns are forming.
- The shifts that matter. Tamar has lived through search becoming the default interface, then SaaS becoming the default workplace, then chat-based collaboration becoming the default for distributed teams. I asked what excites her most about this moment. Her answer wasn't what I expected.
- The next 5 years. How teams will actually work differently. Not predictions. Patterns she's already seeing inside Atlassian's own teams.
The throughline across everything she shared: context is the moat. Models will keep getting better and cheaper. What separates the winners is what your AI knows about how your company actually works.
Big thank you to Tamar for the time and the candor, and for being so generous with her thinking every time we connect. And to the Atlassian team for hosting me at Team '26.
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