As the global home for all developers, GitHub is the complete AI-powered developer platform to build, scale, and deliver secure software. Over 100 million people, including developers from 90 of the Fortune 100 companies, use GitHub to build amazing things together across 330+ million repositories. With all the collaborative features of GitHub, it has never been easier for individuals and teams to write faster, better code.

Locations

In this role you can work from Remote, United States

Overview

GitHub is changing the way the world builds and secures software, and we want you to help build GitHub!

Millions of developers and companies use GitHub to build, ship, and maintain their software. With over 65 million users, hundreds of thousands of registered apps and billions of API calls every day, GitHub provides the core infrastructure that binds the open source community together. As a product manager, you will be expected to bring a passion for helping developers collaborate. You should already be familiar with the way software is developed and some of the tools developers use, and be excited to build a deep expertise in an industry that is changing the world.

Candidates will be considered for various product teams within GitHub, including:

  • Copilot
  • Platform & Enterprise
  • Security
  • Core Productivity

Responsibilities

GitHub’s engineering and product management teams operate in a highly distributed environment, embracing asynchronous communication. You will drive and track Key Results, gaining an understanding of success criteria and performance metrics. Your role will involve identifying data-informed, short-term investment opportunities, evaluating trade-offs, and prioritizing investments in collaboration with cross-functional partners for specific features.

You will engage with internal and external partners, including early-adopter customers and key stakeholders, to gather input and build support for the product/service vision, strategy, and roadmap for a feature. You’ll also develop the skills needed to define features and work with Design teams to integrate various design elements. Strong communication skills are essential for building relationships with colleagues across the globe. We value collaboration, empathy, quality, positive impact, and execution, and you will thrive when your work reflects these principles.

  • Own the product vision for your area. Works across multiple feature areas (e.g., product, service) as directed. Defines and influences the long-term vision and strategy for the feature areas based on a deep understanding of customer needs, market and user research, the competitive landscape, and GitHub’s business goals and strategy.Leverages a deep understanding of the product architecture to design end-to-end scenarios.
  • Analysis of Customer and Market Signals:Understands and starts to build experiences to solve unmet user needs.Performs market or user research in collaboration with the User Research team, conducts competitive analyses, and examines market and industry trends, as well as industry-specific requirements or regulations. Shares insights with cross-functional partners and ensures cross-team alignment
  • Manage the roadmap. Make tactical prioritization decisions while helping the team think long-term. Build trust with stakeholders by maintaining an understandable, accurate roadmap.
  • Collaborate across teams. Your success will require coordination across multiple teams and domains at GitHub. You will play a critical role creating alignment between your product focus area and the wider GitHub organization.
  • Data driven decision making. Leveraging data and analytics to capture progress and key results toward team objectives. The ability to systematically gather information from a variety of sources, analyze information, identify implications of data, draw conclusions, generate alternatives and solutions, and evaluate the consequences of choosing each alternative using quality metrics and data.
  • Measure success. Own the measures used to define success for your area. Success measures must be defined at the inception of a product and tracked throughout its lifecycle. Make measures visible to all stakeholders and interpret them into actionable conclusions

Qualifications

Required Qualifications:

  • 5+ years experience in product/service/project/program management, software development, product design, or related field
    • OR Bachelor’s Degree in related field AND 3+ years experience in product/service/project/program management, software development, product design, or related field
    • OR equivalent experience
  • Experience delivering product roadmap/status updates.
  • Experience collaborating across organizational boundaries to deliver projects that involve complex technical problems.

Preferred Qualifications:

  • Understanding of developer tools and workflows developers use in order to translate tooling/workflow requirements into features on the product roadmap
  • Experience in machine learning and/or AI
  • Experience with and passion for building and shipping API platforms for developers, and developer tool administrators.

Compensation Range

The base salary range for this job is USD $112,800.00 – USD $299,300.00 /Yr.

These pay ranges are intended to cover roles based across the United States. An individual’s base pay depends on various factors including geographical location and review of experience, knowledge, skills, abilities of the applicant. At GitHub certain roles are eligible for benefits and additional rewards, including annual bonus and stock. These rewards are allocated based on individual impact in role. In addition, certain roles also have the opportunity to earn sales incentives based on revenue or utilization, depending on the terms of the plan and the employee’s role.

GitHub values

  • Customer-obsessed
  • Ship to learn
  • Growth mindset
  • Own the outcome
  • Better together
  • Diverse and inclusive

Manager fundamentals

  • Model
  • Coach
  • Care

Leadership principles

  • Create clarity
  • Generate energy
  • Deliver success

Who We Are

GitHub is the world’s leading AI-powered developer platform with 100 million developers and counting. We’re also home to the biggest open-source community on earth (and 99% of the world’s software has open-source code in its DNA). Many of the apps and programs you use every day are built on GitHub.
Our teams are dreamers, doers, and pioneers, leading the way in AI, driving humanitarian efforts around the globe, and even sending open source to Mars (and beyond!). At GitHub, our goal is to create the space you need to do your best work. We’re remote-first and offer competitive pay, generous learning and growth opportunities, and excellent benefits to support you, wherever you are—because we know that people flourish when they can work on their own terms.
Join us, and let’s change the world, together.

EEO Statement

GitHub is made up of people from a wide variety of backgrounds and lifestyles. We embrace diversity and invite applications from people of all walks of life. We don’t discriminate against employees or applicants based on gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, race, religion, age, national origin, citizenship, disability, pregnancy status, veteran status, or any other differences. Also, if you have a disability, please let us know if there’s any way we can make the interview process better for you; we’re happy to accommodate!