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Staff Product Manager
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About the role
- The Copilot Intelligence Platform is the layer between frontier AI models and the millions of developers who use Copilot every day.
- A s the frontier moves, we decide how and when new model capabilities reach GitHub's products.
- We work directly with the major frontier model labs, evaluating emerging capabilities and shaping how they're integrated into developer workflows.
Responsibilities
- Set platform strategy- Own the product direction for a core slice of the Copilot Intelligence Platform.
- Set the strategy that enables the ambition of every product team building on top, balancing what we ship now with the long-term investments that determine how Copilot scales and evolves.
- Build for developers and for the teams who build with you- Build for the end-user developers whose experience depends on this platform, and for the integrators who build on top of it: both the internal GitHub product teams shipping Copilot surfaces and the external partners in our open-source and broader ecosystem.
- Understand the distinct needs of each and design a platform that serves them all well.
- Raise the ceiling on reliability and scale- Treat availability, latency, capacity, and developer tooling quality as core product metrics. Partner with engineering to keep raising that bar as the platform grows.
- Partner and influence across a high-stakes stakeholder landscape.- Work closely with engineering, data science, and GitHub product teams to shape architectural and product decisions that span multiple orgs.
- Over 180 million developers, including more than 90% of the Fortune 100 companies, use GitHub to collaborate, and more than 77,000 organisations have adopted GitHub Copilot.
- Own the outcome
- Create clarity
- Deliver success
Requirements
- OR Bachelor's Degree in related field AND 6+ years experience in product/service/project/program management, software development, product design, or related field
- Required Qualifications:
- 8+ years experience in product/service/project/program management, software development, product design, or related field
- OR equivalent experience
- 3+ years experience building platform products or developer-facing applications
- Preferred Qualifications:
- Demonstrated expertise in how AI is transforming software development, with a proven track record of building or integrating AI-driven capabilities.
- Experience influencing across broad organizations and working directly with enterprise customers and partners.
- Track record of success working with engineering, design, finance, sales, customer success, and marketing.
- Passion for GitHub, open source, and the opportunity to redefine how the world builds and secures software.
- The base salary range for this job is USD $140,400.00 - USD $372,300.00 /Yr.
Nice to have
- Customer-obsessed
- Diverse and inclusive
- Compensation Range
- These pay ranges are intended to cover roles based across the United States.
- 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.
- Manager fundamentals
- Leadership principles
Compensation
- 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.
Company info
- 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.
- EEO Statement
- 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!
- Sit at the front edge of what the industry is building and turn it into product.
- GitHub is the world's leading platform for agentic software development - powered by Copilot to build, scale, and deliver secure software.
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