Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. GitHub is the world’s leading platform for agentic software development, and they are seeking a Staff Product Manager to define and drive their core productivity platform and scaling strategy. The role involves identifying developer needs, influencing stakeholders, and leading growth experiments to validate product direction.
Responsibilities
- Identify and prioritize developer needs through customer engagement, feedback, and market trends
- Anticipate and mitigate blockers to ensure seamless developer workflows
- You will be the champion and voice of customers in every conversation. You will build direct relationships with customers as well as immersing yourself in customer feedback
- Define and drive GitHub’s core productivity platform and scaling strategy
- Influence senior stakeholders and provide thought leadership across GitHub and Microsoft
- You will be responsible for a specific product area and defining a vision that aligns with customer needs and GitHub’s goals
- Lead growth experiments and adoption campaigns to validate product direction and scale usage
- Communicate product vision through executive briefings, blog posts, and developer community channels
- Partner with integrators to co-develop and validate new consumption models
- Analyze data for trends and potential customer pain points and use this to prioritize and inform how to improve the product. Go back to the data when needed to answer questions
- Drive systematic, metrics-based decision-making for continuous product improvement
- Track consumption economics and ensure the platform's cost model is sustainable as traffic grows
Skills
- 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
- 2+ years in developing deep expertise in developer tools and workflows, enabling clear translation of developer requirements into roadmap‑ready features
- Experience building and shipping APIs or event-driven platforms at scale
- Experience delivering product roadmap/status updates to executive leadership
- Experience with consumption-based, usage-based, or metered pricing models
- Experience with event-driven architecture, streaming systems, or real-time delivery (webhooks, pub/sub, SSE, WebSocket)
- Proven cross-functional collaboration: You bring a history of success partnering with Engineering, Finance, Billing, Sales, Customer Success, and Business Systems to drive impactful outcomes
- Strong ownership and leadership: You excel at working independently with accountability, while also guiding cross-functional teams, balancing priorities and ensuring timely delivery of projects
- Experience collaborating across organizational boundaries to deliver projects that involve complex technical problems
Benefits
- Annual bonus
- Stock
- 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
- Generous learning and growth opportunities
- Excellent benefits to support you, wherever you are
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