Senior Director of Technical Program Management, Github
$160.2-425k
AI-powered developer platform to build, scale & deliver secure software
Open for applications
AI-powered developer platform to build, scale & deliver secure software
1001+ employees
Open for applications
$160.2-425k
1001+ employees
Company mission
To help every developer—regardless of experience level—learn, code, and ship software effectively.
Role
Who you are
- 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
- 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
- 8+ years experience in managing cross-functional and/or cross-team projects
What the job involves
- 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
- 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
- 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 [KPIs] such 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
- Acts as a subject matter expert in orchestrating and integrating efforts for the development and implementation process of product, services on large cross functional projects with internal teams and external partners. Drives teams to collaborate and coordinate across teams and perspectives to ensure alignment on product management and release, including tradeoffs, adjustments, and improvements as feasible
- Guides teams to partner with the engineering team to contribute, prioritize, and deliver on the roadmap for product, service. Drives teams to understand the value proposition for the feature(s)/feature areas and answer technical questions on the feature(s)/feature areas they own
- Guides teams to justify capacity requirements and advocate for the right resource allocation. Partners with the Engineering team to know the feature capabilities in alignment with the goal updates and associated tradeoffs
- Guides teams tracking, coordinating, and communicating end-to-end project schedules for products, services. Ensures teams establish and monitor processes, and hold other stakeholders accountable for following the established schedule and processes
- Guides teams when tracking and managing dependencies to enable cohesive, connected user scenarios, and to avoid issues and mitigate risks. Coaches teams to make adjustments or course corrections when projects are not aligned to schedules or goals
- Drives teams to develop the staging and implementation plan for piloting/release in alignment with Objectives and Key Results (OKRs) and Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) for products, services, its development timeline, and the introduction to the different programs. Ensures teams collaborate with stakeholders to monitor progress and adjust as needed
- Helps teams lead governance programs and processes to ensure that specific performance requirements and standards are met throughout the development lifecycle (e.g., quality, compliance, privacy, security, safety, accessibility)
- Provides expertise to help teams partner with others to collect performance metrics (e.g., Key Performance Indicators [KPIs] such 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
Our take
GitHub was founded to make a developer’s job easier with open and asynchronous communication, distributed version control, and source code management with Git. In the first year alone, 100,000 users were pushing code on the site.
GitHub has quickly become the world’s most popular platform for developers to collaborate on open-source projects from anywhere. Nearly every major company including Facebook, Google, and Apple hosts open-source projects on GitHub.
Github's work culture reflects its global community, with employees collaborating remotely from all over the world. In 2018, Microsoft acquired the company as part of its broader strategy to enhance cloud computing services. Since then, GitHub has been dedicated to evolving its platform, consistently investing in ongoing development to better serve its users.
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Insights
18% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (2 rounds)
Jul 2015
$250m
SERIES B
Jul 2012
$100m
SERIES A
Total funding: $350m
Company benefits
- Flexible time away to support balance in your work and life
- Clear diversity, inclusion, and anti-discrimination policies backed by business practices and company culture
- Five months of paid family leave to all new parents with the option to use it all at once or throughout the child’s first year
- Family forming benefits that cover fertility, infertility, adoption, and surrogacy costs and support
- Mental health benefits that offer resources and support and cover therapy and coaching sessions for you and your dependents
- Generous 401(k) matching with 50% match up to the IRS 402(g) limit (US; competitive non-US pension options internationally)
- Employee stock purchase plan that lets you purchase Microsoft stock at a discount. (Microsoft is our parent company.)
- 100% of medical, dental, and vision insurance premiums covered by GitHub for you + your dependents. (Includes gender-affirming benefits)
Company HQ
South Beach, San Francisco, CA
Leadership
Kyle Daigle
(COO)Prior to GitHub, Kyle took on developer-focused challenges as an engineering and product leader in startups, working in FinTech, real estate, and consulting.
Vladimir Fedorov
(CTO)Before joining GitHub, Vlad co-founded UserClouds, a startup specializing in data governance and privacy. He spent 12 years at Facebook as SVP, leading engineering teams across Privacy, Ads, and Platform.
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