Director, Technical Program Management

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

Overview
GitHub is looking for a director to help lead GitHub’s Technical Program Management team in our Engineering organization. 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.

The Director, TPM will strengthen TPM's role as a trusted integrator, driving clarity, accountability, and execution across complex, cross-functional initiatives. They will help teams frame problems, align stakeholders, and accelerate decision-making while raising the effectiveness of TPMs and scaling their influence across the company. This director will foster a culture of ownership, bias for action, and operational excellence, ensuring execution remains tightly aligned with strategic priorities.

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 [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.

Program/Service Development

• 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).

Continuous Improvement

• 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.

Qualifications
Required Qualifications

• 8+ 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 6+ 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 4+ years experience in engineering, product/technical program management, data analysis, or product development

• OR equivalent experience.

• 5+ years experience in managing cross-functional and/or cross-team projects.

Preferred 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 10+ 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 8+ years experience in engineering, product/technical program management, data analysis, or product development

• OR Doctorate 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.

• 3+ years people management experience.

• 4+ years experience designing, building, or supporting software systems.

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.

This position will be open for a minimum of 3 days, with applications accepted on an ongoing basis until the position is filled.

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.

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