Sr. Dir, Product Management

About GitHub

As the global home for all developers, GitHub is the complete AI-powered developer platform to build, scale, and deliver secure software. Over 150+ million developers, including more than 90% of the Fortune 100 companies, use GitHub to collaborate and experiment across 420+ 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 Kingdom.

Overview

Millions of people use GitHub every day to create software together, and GitHub is a foundational tool for any aspiring or professional software developer.

We are looking for a product management leader to join our Core Productivity team. You’ll be responsible for leading teams maturing existing experiences and evolving GitHub into an AI-native platform powered by Copilot, loved by millions of developers every day.

You will report to the VP of Core Productivity and join a team of product managers, engineers, and designers responsible for GitHub’s core experience—including repositories, pull requests, and issues—while driving the rapid evolution of Copilot and Copilot agents on GitHub.com.

This role is ideal for an experienced, technical, or design-driven product management leader who thrives in a fast-paced environment, taking products from 0 to 1 while scaling and refining global services.

As a people manager, you will be responsible for fostering team growth and development, executing high-impact projects, and managing performance. Your approach to product management will blend creativity, critical thinking, and hands-on execution, combining deep customer insights with technical expertise to deliver outstanding product outcomes.

You will define the strategic vision and team culture to uncover unmet customer needs and market opportunities, ensuring alignment across internal and external stakeholders—including early adopters, senior leadership, and key partners. You will guide the team in collaborating with Design to integrate multiple design factors, setting the roadmap and strategy for feature areas. Additionally, you will provide thought leadership on customer acquisition, engagement, retention, and monetization strategies, working closely with Product Marketing, Business Planning, and Engineering. You will drive the team to evangelize their feature areas across internal and external audiences, presenting to stakeholders, partners, analysts, and customers. This role requires both strategic and operational leadership, balancing innovation with execution to shape the future of GitHub’s most critical products.

Responsibilities

• Lead the product strategy across a broad surface area of the GitHub product, such as Copilot in GitHub.com, chat interfaces, agentic compute environments and experiences, and other mature product areas.
• Seek out and lead GitHub into new product areas and markets, find product-market-fit and drive a culture of experimentation to achieve that. As part of this, define the vision, strategy and roadmap for your area, in partnership with your direct reports and other partner product managers.
• In collaboration with Engineering and Design, lead execution on the roadmap, to deliver exceptionally high quality experiences at every touchpoint for users.
• Define and report on KPIs and success metrics for the area. Continuously monitor and analyze data and customer feedback to identify areas for improvement and optimization.
• Represent your area to GitHub executives, and partner closely with go-to-market teams on messaging, pricing and roll out plans. Represent GitHub at conferences and to executive decision-makers at our customers.
• Mentor, coach and grow your team. Ensure each of your product managers grow and advance their skill sets to be successful in their careers.
• Foster an inclusive environment across the company where team members are empowered to do their best work and demonstrate a strong sense of ownership and belonging.
• Conduct competitive analysis, market and user research in collaboration with the User Research team, and examine market and industry trends to inform strategic roadmap decisions. Leverage knowledge of the broader ecosystem of GitHub products to inform decisions on where to leverage capabilities and functionalities across the ecosystem.

Qualifications

Required Qualifications:

• 10+ years of experience in product/service/project/program management, software development, product design, or a related field;
  • OR Bachelor's Degree in a relevant field AND 8+ years of experience in product/service/project/program management, software development, product design, or a related field;
  • OR Equivalent experience
• 5+ years of people management experience.

Additional/Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience working on developer tools, and global-scale services.
• Experience taking products from inception to product-market-fit and scaling.
• Technical expertise in AI/ML services and experiences, compute platforms.
• Experience working in design or exceptional attention to UX/UI detail.
• Exceptional customer and stakeholder relationship-building skills, and experience running large programs of work.
• Experience in running large-scale services and managing significant operations.

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.

Equal Employment Opportunity

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!