Hi, I’m Jonno Katahanas
I’m a Director of Product leading teams @Atlassian to build AI-powered collaborative software.
My current focus is all core creation, consumption and collaboration experiences in Confluence.
Born and raised in Australia, I’m now based in the Bay Area and loving it!
Recent Experiences
DIRECTOR OF PRODUCT | CONFLUENCE CREATION
2025 - Present
Leading the org that builds all AI-native creation experiences in Confluence, and the core content modalities these are built on. This includes docs, whiteboards, databases, and peripheral experiences like commenting.
GROUP PM | CONFLUENCE CONTENT TYPES
2023 - 2025
Leading the org transforming Confluence from a knowledge base to a collaborative workspace through the introduction of whiteboards and databases as new content modalities.
Also led >250 Atlassian’s across >30 teams to successfully integrate the ~$1B Loom acquisition into the Atlassian business and platform. Fastest in history.
PRINCIPAL (FOUNDING) PM | WHITEBOARDS
2021 - 2023
Built team and product from 0 - 1 for new collaborative whiteboard with tight workflow integrations with Jira and Confluence.
SENIOR (FOUNDING) PM | LINKING PLATFORM
2020 - 2021
Built team and platform experience from 0 - 1 for ingesting link-backed data into Atlassian cloud products to create rich user experiences.
Patents
Inter platform control interface
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Virtual whiteboarding application for visualizing and organizing issues from an issue tracking system
[Continuation] Virtual whiteboarding application for visualizing and organizing issues from an issue tracking system
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Virtual whiteboard platform having an interface for issue object creation in an issue tracking platform
User interface with command-line link creation for generating graphical objects linked to third-party content
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Systems and methods for providing software components as a service
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User interface for searching and generating graphical objects linked to third-party content
Data storage and retrieval system for subdividing unstructured platform-agnostic user input into platform-specific data objects and data entities
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