Senior Program Manager
Posted Apr 25
As Senior Program Manager in GitHub’s Global Expansion team, you will drive program execution across a portfolio of programs that help drive GitHub’s developer community and commercial growth globally. Your job is to lead the operationalization of key elements of GitHub’s strategy for global expansion, and in doing so, you will work closely with stakeholders from across the entire company.
The ideal candidate for this role understands how to apply the fundamentals of program management to drive progress in a technical, global, and cross-functional environment. This role will be joining a tight-knit environment of technical and business-minded colleagues as an individual contributor with significant growth potential.
Responsibilities:
- Lead the scoping, planning, and execution of a series of global market entry programs, focused on the APAC region
- Support the development and drive experiments to test market entry into new markets, or the impact of initiatives
- Deliver programs in close collaboration with a wide set of internal and external stakeholders and partners
- Proactively identify, flag, and mitigate program risks
Minimum Qualifications:
- Experience running market development programs or entering new markets
- 6+ years’ experience working cross-functionally with tech and non-tech teams
- 6+ years' experience in management consulting, strategic planning, technical program management, or similar settings
- Ability to communicate complex programmatic goals, milestones, and details in both verbal and written format
- Ability to inform, leverage, and translate strategic vision to executable and actionable priorities
- Ability to leverage first-principle thinking to improve processes and procedures
- Fluency in more than one languages
- High energy and action-oriented with a history of getting things done in complex environments
- Self-starter mentality, yet a team player with a collaborative approach and a desire to prioritize the goals of the team above personal achievement
- Superior analytical skills and particular attention to detail with good business judgment and outstanding presentation, communication, and interpersonal skills
- Results-oriented with a strong work ethic to thrive in a high-performance culture. You are also tenacious, with the emotional
- intelligence to know when to push harder and when to look for alternative approaches
- Ability to create a performance- and metrics-focused culture
Preferred Qualifications:
- Experience working in a high-growth global technology company
- Ability to work successfully in global cross-functional teams, including with stakeholders and executives
- Familiarity with developer tools in a professional or hobbyist setting
(Colorado only) Minimum salary of 89,200 to maximum 189,300 + bonus + equity + benefits.
Note: Disclosure as required by sb19-085 (8-5-20) of the minimum salary compensation for this role when being hired in Colorado.
Who We Are:
GitHub is the developer company. We make it easier for developers to be developers: to work together, to solve challenging problems, and to create the world’s most important technologies. We foster a collaborative community that can come togetheras individuals and in teamsto create the future of software and make a difference in the world.
Leadership Principles:
Customer Obsessed - Trust by Default - Ship to Learn - Own the Outcome - Growth Mindset - Global Product, Global Team - Anything is Possible - Practice Kindness
Why You Should Join:
At GitHub, we constantly strive to create an environment that allows our employees (Hubbers) to do the best work of their lives. We've designed one of the coolest workspaces in San Francisco (HQ), where many Hubbers work, snack, and create daily. The rest of our Hubbers work remotely around the globe.
We are also committed to keeping Hubbers healthy, motivated, focused and creative. We've designed our top-notch benefits program with these goals in mind. In a nutshell, we've built a place where we truly love working, we think you will too.
Misc Info For This Position:
Remote Mix: 100% Remote
Position Level: Senior Manager
Job Type: Full-Time
Regional Restrictions: USA Only
