[Hiring] Director, Technical Program Management @GitHub

Role Description

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.
  • 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 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 multiple program goals and prioritization for the products and services they own.
  • Guides teams to translate the needs of the organization into program goals and prioritize deliverables based on data insights.
  • Engages in active risk management to identify risks and propose mitigations using data.
  • Coaches teams to define success criteria and performance metrics (e.g., OKRs, KPIs).
  • Provides expert knowledge to help teams 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 products and services.
  • Drives teams to collaborate and coordinate across teams to ensure alignment on product management and release.
  • Guides teams to partner with the engineering team to contribute, prioritize, and deliver on the roadmap.
  • Justifies capacity requirements and advocates for the right resource allocation.
  • Tracks, coordinates, and communicates end-to-end project schedules for products and services.
  • Guides teams when tracking and managing dependencies to enable cohesive user scenarios.
  • Develops the staging and implementation plan for piloting/release in alignment with OKRs and KPIs.
  • Helps teams lead governance programs to ensure performance requirements are met throughout the development lifecycle.
• Continuous Improvement:
  • Provides expertise to help teams partner with others to collect performance metrics and derive insights.
  • Ensures teams share insights with Engineering and other partners.
  • Leads teams to form hypotheses to technical needs, perform experiments, and iterate to drive improvement.

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.

Requirements

• 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.

Benefits

• Base salary range: USD $140,400.00 - USD $372,300.00 /Yr.
• Eligibility for benefits and additional rewards, including annual bonus and stock.
• Opportunity to earn sales incentives based on revenue or utilization.