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.