GitHub is the world’s leading platform for agentic software development — powered by Copilot to build, scale, and deliver secure software. Over 180 million developers, including more than 90% of the Fortune 100 companies, use GitHub to collaborate, and more than 77,000 organisations have adopted GitHub Copilot.
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!
GitHub Enterprise powers software development for the world’s largest organizations and 90% of the Fortune 100. We’re hiring a Director of Product to set the vision and drive the strategy for our enterprise platform so customers can deploy GitHub securely, reliably, and at global scale across regions and regulated clouds as AI becomes a core part of how teams build.
In this role, you’ll lead a high-performing team of product managers focused on the hardest enterprise problems: governance, compliance, identity and access, policy at scale, platform reliability, and fleet-wide administration. You’ll partner closely with Engineering, Security, Sales, and Customer Success to turn customer needs into a clear roadmap, and you’ll represent GitHub Enterprise with senior leaders at some of our most sophisticated customers worldwide.
What you’ll own:
The core enterprise platform experience and administration surface area
Enterprise governance: policies, controls, compliance, and audit ability
Strategy for scaling GitHub deployments across regions, data boundaries, and regulated environments
Product leadership for growing GitHub’s enterprise business globally
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.
GitHub’s engineering and product management organizations are highly distributed, and we embrace an environment of asynchronous communication. We expect you to have strong communication skills and be able to build working relationships with coworkers in locations around the globe. We value collaboration, empathy, quality, positive impact, and shipping. You will excel when the way you work reflects these values.
We want you to enable every team member to do the best work of their lives and we'll partner to enable the same for you. In this position, you will work closely with product managers, designers, and engineers. You will also be part of a community dedicated to making a positive impact at work and at large.
Responsibilities
Analysis of Customer and Market Signals
Drive strategic agendas to uncover unmet needs and market opportunities using data and direct customer engagement.
Lead competitive analysis, trend evaluation, and acquisition assessments.
Guide experimentation to validate hypotheses and align insights with GitHub’s strategy.
Product/Service Definition
Oversee multiple feature areas, shaping long-term vision, strategy, and roadmap.
Define success metrics (OKRs, KPIs), manage monetization strategies, and ensure responsible telemetry.
Prioritize investments and secure cross-functional alignment around product vision.
Product/Service Development
Lead feature definition and design integration across UX, APIs, and systems.
Resolve interoperability challenges and facilitate stakeholder design reviews.
Own roadmap execution, backlog prioritization, and scenario planning for early adoption.
Channel feedback into continuous product improvement.
Go To Market
Collaborate on release criteria, acquisition, and monetization strategies.
Drive rollout plans, content creation, and customer support documentation.
Evangelize product areas through industry events and connect performance to customer value.
Product/Service Performance
Monitor KPIs with cross-functional partners and derive insights for iteration.
Manage lifecycle decisions, build customer trust, and improve support responsiveness.
Use telemetry and feedback to guide adoption and performance improvements
Qualifications
Required Qualifications:
- 8+ years experience in product/service/project/program management, software development, product design, or related field
- OR Bachelor's Degree in related field AND 6+ years experience in product/service/project/program management, software development, product design, or related field
- OR equivalent experience
- 3+ years people management experience.
- 3+ years of experience working across AI/ML experiences, developer tooling, or new product development.
- Experience collaborating across organizational boundaries to deliver projects that involve complex technical problems.
Preferred Qualifications:
Master’s degree in Business, Computer Science, or related field.
- Proven cross-functional collaboration: You bring a history of success partnering with Engineering, Finance, Billing, Sales, Customer Success, and Business Systems to drive impactful outcomes.
Experience collaborating with AI research teams and applying emerging model capabilities to customer scenarios.
Deep technical expertise particularly related to coding and AI models/techniques, to guide product development and innovation.
- Strong ownership and leadership: You excel at working independently with accountability, while also guiding cross-functional teams,balancing priorities and ensuring timely delivery of projects.
Compensation Range
The base salary range for this job is USD $140,400.00 - USD $372,300.00 /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 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
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