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Director, Technical Program Management

GitHub· Engineering
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Hybrid (United States)$140.4k - $372.3kFull-timePosted 2mo ago

About the role

GitHub seeks a Director of Technical Program Management to lead the TPM team within Engineering, driving clarity, accountability, and execution across complex cross-functional initiatives and scaling TPM influence across the company.

Responsibilities

  • Opportunity and Solutions Identification - Leads and coaches teams to develop problem statements and hypotheses for products/services across divisions; identifies dependencies of other features.
  • Determines and leads process improvements to scope insights, drive change management, and align stakeholders with customer/market goals.
  • Ensures collaboration between teams (e.g., Engineering, Marketing, Design) to satisfy customer requirements and validates market size and opportunity.
  • Program Planning and Success - Helps teams define program goals, translate organizational needs into goals, and prioritize deliverables based on data insights.
  • Guides active risk management to identify risks and propose mitigations using data (telemetry, usage, customer satisfaction).
  • Coaches teams to define success criteria and performance metrics (OKRs, KPIs) and ensure telemetry is developed.
  • Program/Service Development - Orchestrates and integrates efforts for development and implementation on large cross-functional projects; drives collaboration across teams and partners.
  • Guides teams to partner with Engineering to deliver on the roadmap, understand value propositions, and answer technical questions.
  • Advocates for capacity planning and right resource allocation; collaborates with Engineering on feature capabilities and tradeoffs.
  • Tracks end-to-end project schedules, establishes processes, and holds stakeholders accountable.
  • Manages dependencies to enable cohesive user scenarios and mitigates risks; coaches course corrections when misaligned with schedules/goals.
  • Leads governance programs to meet performance requirements (quality, privacy, security, etc.) throughout development.
  • Continuous Improvement - Collects metrics, monitors progress, derives insights, and drives improvements in performance metrics; shares insights with Engineering and partners.

Qualifications

  • 8+ years experience in engineering, product/technical program management, data analysis, or product development (or equivalent combinations as specified)
  • 5+ years experience in managing cross-functional and/or cross-team projects.

Skills

Required:Experience in leading cross-functional programs
Nice to have:People management
Last updated Jul 30, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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