Staff Product Manager

GitHub, Inc.

46d•$140,400 - $372,300•Remote

About The Position

GitHub is transforming software development and seeks a Staff Product Manager to evolve its internal development processes. The Developer Experience (DX) team aims to empower GitHub developers and AI agents to build stable, secure, and reliable software platforms. This role is pivotal in defining the product direction for the DX platform, enabling thousands of engineers to ship faster, validate sooner, and operate on streamlined paths from commit to production. The Staff Product Manager will own the vision for how GitHub's developers and AI agents integrate and accelerate development, working closely with engineering leadership and partner organizations to translate strategy into tangible outcomes. GitHub operates as a highly distributed organization, emphasizing asynchronous communication, collaboration, empathy, quality, positive impact, and shipping. GitHub is the world’s leading AI-powered developer platform, home to 150 million developers and the largest open-source community. The company fosters a remote-first environment, offering competitive compensation, extensive learning and growth opportunities, and excellent benefits to support its employees.

Requirements

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
3+ years experience delivering projects that involve complex technical problems across organizational boundaries.
Strong technical foundation with deep understanding of modern software delivery practices including CI/CD, testing strategies, observability, and service-oriented architectures.

Nice To Haves

Experience building or leading internal developer platforms, developer productivity programs, or platform engineering teams.
Strong technical intuition with the ability to engage senior engineers on architecture decisions, understand their implications for product plans, and navigate those tradeoffs effectively.
Demonstrated, measurable improvement to developer productivity metrics in a previous role.
Experience shipping AI-powered developer tools or integrating LLM-based capabilities into product workflows.
Strong analytical skills with experience defining metrics and using them to drive decisions and measure impact.

Responsibilities

Define the product vision and strategy for DX, focused on making GitHub the fastest place to ship software at scale.
Own and drive the roadmap for developer velocity and experimentation, balancing near-term developer pain points with long-term DX bets.
Identify opportunities to shift internal workflows from manual processes to API-first, agent-compatible automation.
Shape how AI agents and AI-assisted workflows integrate with the development platform, ensuring internal systems are designed for both human and agentic consumers.
Partner with engineering to define success metrics and hold the team accountable to outcomes.
Build deep expertise in GitHub's internal development workflows and translate that knowledge into clear priorities.
Drive adoption of opinionated development paths by making the paved path the easiest path.
Work cross-functionally with teams across GitHub to deliver initiatives that span organizational boundaries.
Act as the voice of the internal developer, using qualitative feedback and quantitative data to influence investment decisions.