Senior Director, Technical Program Management

Role Description

Do you want to lead a team of Technical Program Managers as they run programs and initiatives that directly impact GitHub’s most critical goals? GitHub is looking for a senior leader to join our Technical Program Management team in our Engineering organization as a people manager. You should be an ambitious, passionate, technical, and collaborative leader, with a strong background in empowering high performing teams and an ability to deliver results through technical programs.

Responsibilities

• Opportunity and Solutions Identification:
  • Demonstrates and builds experiences across multiple groups or divisions.
  • Leads and coaches teams to develop problem statements and form hypotheses for products and services across divisional boundaries.
  • Identifies dependencies of other features.
  • Determines and leads process improvements to quickly scope insights and drives change management initiatives.
  • Uses industry understanding to direct teams to ensure alignment between the customer, the market, internal stakeholders, senior leadership, and the goals and strategy of GitHub.
  • Holds teams accountable for collaborating with others (e.g., Engineering, Marketing, Design) to satisfy customer requirements.
  • Provides expertise to help teams validate the market size and opportunity of greatest value for the company.
  • Facilitates collaboration between their team and other partner teams to bring about solutions.
• Program Planning and Success:
  • Provides expertise to help teams define the multiple program goals and prioritization for the products and services they own.
  • Guides teams to translate the needs of the organization and other teams into program goals and prioritize deliverables based on data insights.
  • Guides teams to engage in active risk management (proactive and reactive) to identify risks and propose mitigations.
  • Coaches teams to define success criteria and performance metrics (e.g., OKRs, KPIs) of products and services.
  • Provides expert knowledge to help teams deeply understand the return on investment.
• Program/Service Development:
  • Acts as a subject matter expert in orchestrating and integrating efforts for the development and implementation process of products and services.
  • Drives teams to collaborate and coordinate across teams and perspectives to ensure alignment on product management and release.
  • Guides teams to partner with the engineering team to contribute, prioritize, and deliver on the roadmap for products and services.
  • Guides teams to justify capacity requirements and advocate for the right resource allocation.
  • Guides teams tracking, coordinating, and communicating end-to-end project schedules for products and services.
  • Guides teams when tracking and managing dependencies to enable cohesive, connected user scenarios.
  • Drives teams to develop the staging and implementation plan for piloting/release in alignment with OKRs and KPIs.
  • Helps teams lead governance programs and processes to ensure that specific performance requirements and standards are met throughout the development lifecycle.
• Continuous Improvement:
  • Provides expertise to help teams partner with others to collect performance metrics and derive insights that lead to productive courses of action.
  • Ensures teams share insights with Engineering and other partners.
  • Leads teams to form hypotheses to technical needs, perform experiments, and iterate to drive improvement in specific performance metrics.

Qualifications

• 10+ years experience in engineering, product/technical program management, data analysis, or product development OR Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Data Science, Math, Business, or related field AND 8+ years experience in the same fields OR Master's Degree in the same fields AND 6+ years experience OR equivalent experience.
• 8+ years experience in managing cross-functional and/or cross-team projects.

Requirements

• Base salary range for this job is USD $160,200.00 - USD $425,000.00 /Yr.
• Pay depends on various factors including geographical location and review of experience, knowledge, skills, abilities of the applicant.
• Eligible for benefits and additional rewards, including annual bonus and stock.
• Opportunity to earn sales incentives based on revenue or utilization, depending on the terms of the plan and the employee's role.

Benefits

• Competitive pay.
• Generous learning and growth opportunities.
• Excellent benefits to support you, wherever you are.