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Locations In this role you can work from Remote, United States

Overview Do you want to lead a team of Technical Program Managers as they run programs and initiatives that directly impact GitHub’s most critical goals? GitHub is looking for a senior leader to join our Technical Program Management team in our Product Management organization as a people manager. You should be an ambitious, passionate, technical, and collaborative leader, with a strong background in empowering high performing teams and an ability to deliver results through technical programs.

Responsibilities Opportunity and Solutions Identification

• Demonstrates and builds experiences across multiple groups or divisions. Leads and coaches teams to develop problem statements and form hypotheses for products and services across divisional boundaries to address highly complex business, program, customer needs, and/or market opportunities; identifies dependencies of other features.
• Determines and leads process improvements to quickly scope insights, and drives change management initiatives. Uses industry understanding to direct teams to ensure alignment between the customer, the market, internal stakeholders, senior leadership, and the goals and strategy of GitHub.
• Holds teams accountable for collaborating with others (e.g., Engineering, Marketing, Design) to ensure that they can satisfy customer requirements. Provides expertise to help teams validate the market size and opportunity of greatest value for the company. Facilitates collaboration between their team and other partner teams to bring about solutions.

Program Planning and Success

• Provides expertise to help teams define the multiple program goals and prioritization for the products and services they own. Guides teams to translate the needs of the organization and other teams into program goals and prioritize deliverables based on data insights.
• Guides teams to engage in active risk management (proactive and reactive) to identify risks and propose mitigations for risks using data (e.g., telemetry, usage, net satisfaction, customer satisfaction).
• Coaches teams to define success criteria and performance metrics (e.g., Objectives and Key Results OKRs Key Performance Indicators KPIssuch as quality and performance) of products, services and works with engineering to ensure needed telemetry is developed. Provides expert knowledge to help teams deeply understand the return on investment.

Program/Service Development

Continuous Improvement

• Provides expertise to help teams partner with others to collect performance metrics (e.g., Key Performance Indicators KPIssuch as usage, quality, speed, and cost), monitor and report on progress (e.g., business reviews), and derive insights that lead to productive courses of action.
• Ensures teams share insights with Engineering and other partners. Leads teams to form hypotheses to technical needs, perform experiments, and iterate to drive improvement in specific performance metrics that have measurable impact.

Qualifications Required/Minimum Qualifications

• 10+ years experience in engineering, product/technical program management, data analysis, or product development

• OR Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Data Science, Math, Business, or related field AND 8+ years experience in engineering, product/technical program management, data analysis, or product development

• OR Master's Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Data Science, Math, Business, or related field AND 6+ years experience in engineering, product/technical program management, data analysis, or product development

• OR equivalent experience.

Compensation Range The base salary range for this job is USD $160,200.00 - USD $425,000.00 /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 150 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!