Staff Product Manager

About GitHub

GitHub is the world's leading platform for agentic software development - powered by Copilot to build, scale, and deliver secure software. 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.

Locations

In this role you can work from Remote, United States

Overview

GitHub's API is one of the most widely used developer APIs in the world. Millions of developers and hundreds of thousands of integrations depend on it. Historically, the API was built for a pre-AI era of human-driven integrations. Today, it must serve a far more demanding set of consumers: enterprise customers operating at massive scale, AI agents running continuously and reacting to events in real time, and a developer ecosystem that expects full programmatic access to everything available in the UI. It also needs a sustainable model to support the rising cost of this consumption.

What you'll work on:

• Real-time & event-driven platform - Today, many top integrators poll GitHub constantly to check for changes-an approach that has grown significantly and is structurally wasteful. You'll define the shift from request/response to a subscription-based, ordered event-stream model. This includes delivery guarantees, filtering, and solutions for CLI-based agents that can't receive webhooks.

• Scale & reliability - Our largest customers and fastest-growing consumers (AI coding agents) push the platform harder than ever. You'll define reliability and performance expectations at the highest scale, own the resilience and capacity roadmap, and ensure each product area is accountable for the scalability of its API surface.

• API parity - Not everything in GitHub is exposed through the API today. Closing these gaps is foundational to trust and unlocks integrations that should "just work." You'll determine which gaps matter most, how to close them, and drive cross-team execution.

• Consumption economics - GitHub lacks a clean pricing model for API usage. You'll design one that recovers serving costs, creates margin on higher-value consumption, and incentivizes efficient usage. This includes defining a baseline tier, an agent-optimized tier, and potentially a knowledge-graph tier-while ensuring pricing changes don't fracture the ecosystem.

Responsibilities

Analysis of Customer & Market Signals:

• 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

Product/Service Definition :

• 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.

Go-To-Market & Delivery:

• 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.

Performance & Impact:

• 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.

Qualifications

Required Qualifications:

• 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.

Preferred Qualifications:

• 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.

Compensation Range

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. 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.

This position will be open for a minimum of 3 days, with applications accepted on an ongoing basis until the position is filled.

GitHub values

• Customer-obsessed

• Ship to learn

• Growth mindset

• Own the outcome

• Better together

• Diverse and inclusive

Manager fundamentals

• Model

• Coach

• Care

Leadership principles

• Create clarity

• Generate energy

• Deliver success

Who We Are

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

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