Staff Product Manager

About GitHub 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! 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. We're looking for an experienced Product Manager to lead GitHub's API strategy. In this role, you'll define how our API evolves to support the next generation of development where AI agents are first-class consumers alongside developers. You'll work across teams to ensure our API is robust, scalable, and designed for both traditional integrations and agentic workflows. Partnering closely with engineering, developer relations, and external stakeholders, you'll shape the roadmap that enables agents to interact with GitHub at scale while maintaining the reliability and flexibility our ecosystem depends on.As a product manager, you will be expected to bring a strong 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 deep expertise in an industry that is changing the world. You’ll define feature sets, partner with Design to connect multiple design factors, and own and drive the roadmap for your areas of responsibility. 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 & Market Signals

• Identify and prioritize developer needs through customer engagement, feedback, and market trends.
• Anticipate and mitigate blockers to ensure seamless developer workflows.
• You will be the champion and voice of customers in every conversation. You will build direct relationships with customers as well as immersing yourself in customer feedback

Product/Service Definition

• Define and drive GitHub’s multi-model AI strategy and platform roadmap.
• Influence senior stakeholders and provide thought leadership across GitHub and Microsoft.
• You will be responsible for a specific product area and defining a vision that aligns with customer needs and GitHub’s goals.

Go-To-Market & Delivery

• Lead growth experiments and adoption campaigns to validate product direction and scale usage.
• Communicate product vision through executive briefings, blog posts, and developer community channels.

Performance & Impact

• Analyze data for trends and potential customer pain points, and use this to prioritize and inform how to improve the product. Go back to the data when needed to answer questions.
• Drive systematic, metrics-based decision-making for continuous product improvement

QualificationsRequired 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

• Understanding of developer tools and workflows developers use in order to translate tooling/workflow requirements into features on the product roadmap.
• Experience delivering product roadmap/status updates to executive leadership.
• 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.
• 10+ years experience in product management or related disciplines.
• 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.
• 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 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!