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GitHub · 8 hours ago

Staff Product Manager

GitHub is the world’s leading platform for agentic software development, and they are seeking an experienced Product Manager to lead GitHub's API strategy. In this role, you will define how the API evolves to support the next generation of development, working across teams to ensure robustness and scalability while maintaining reliability and flexibility.

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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 multi-model AI strategy and platform roadmap
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
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

Qualification

Product managementAPI strategyCross-functional collaborationSoftware developmentData analysisCustomer engagementCommunicationLeadership

Required

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
Understanding of developer tools and workflows developers use in order to translate tooling/workflow requirements into features on the product roadmap
Experience delivering product roadmap/status updates to executive leadership
Experience collaborating across organizational boundaries to deliver projects that involve complex technical problems

Preferred

Master's degree in Business, Computer Science, or related field
10+ years experience in product management or related disciplines
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

Benefits

Annual bonus
Stock
Competitive pay
Generous learning and growth opportunities
Excellent benefits

Company

GitHub is a software company that offers code hosting services that allow developers to build software for open-source and private projects. It is a sub-organization of Microsoft.

H1B Sponsorship

GitHub has a track record of offering H1B sponsorships. Please note that this does not guarantee sponsorship for this specific role. Below presents additional info for your reference. (Data Powered by US Department of Labor)
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Trends of Total Sponsorships
2025 (26)
2024 (17)
2023 (14)
2022 (20)
2021 (20)
2020 (10)

Funding

Current Stage
Late Stage
Total Funding
$350M
Key Investors
Sequoia CapitalAndreessen Horowitz
2018-06-03Acquired
2015-07-29Series B· $250M
2015-06-19Secondary Market

Leadership Team

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PJ Hyett
Co-Founder
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Kyle Daigle
Chief Operating Officer
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