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Staff Program Manager, Product Operations
United States · Staff+
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About the role
- We are looking for a Staff Program Manager to join our Product Operations team and help ensure that what we ship is ready: not just technically, but across product completeness, go-to-market positioning, and field enablement.
- We are looking for a self-starter with strong program management craft and the relationship skills to earn trust across teams.
- We are looking for a Staff Program Manager to join our
Responsibilities
- Lead complex, cross-functional programs in a highly matrixed, fast-paced environment, formulating plans through ambiguous scenarios and maintaining momentum across stakeholders
- Improve procedures and workflows that support how products move from development through launch
- apply learnings from prior launches to drive broader impact
- Drive rhythm of business for programs to ensure goals align with cross-organizational priorities
- manage critical or time-sensitive issues that affect release timelines or market readiness
- Identify systemic improvement opportunities across how the organization plans, builds, and launches products
- Own the outcome
- Create clarity
- Deliver success
Requirements
- 9+ years experience in program management, product management, project management, customer success, or a related field
- OR Bachelor's Degree in a related field AND 7+ years experience in program management, product management, project management, customer success, or a related field
- 3+ years experience working in a complex, matrixed organization
- 3+ years experience driving cross-functional alignment across product, engineering, marketing, and revenue stakeholders
Nice to have
- Experience in SaaS or cloud platform product development lifecycle (PDLC) environments
- Experience with launch readiness, release management, or go-to-market operations across a product portfolio
- Active use of AI tools to improve personal productivity and operational workflows
- Customer-obsessed
- Diverse and inclusive
Skills
- About GitHub
- In this role you can work from Remote, United States
- not just technically, but across product completeness, go-to-market positioning, and field enablement.
Compensation
- The base salary range for this job is USD $121,000.00 - USD $323,200.00 /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.
Benefits
- Define and track key performance indicators for program health and outcomes across the product launch lifecycle
Company info
- 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.
- 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!
- Build collaborative relationships across product, engineering, marketing, revenue, legal, and support to drive alignment on what it takes to ship products that are ready for customers
Visa & Work Authorization
- ployees 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
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