Key skills
Product managementAPI strategyCross-functional collaborationSoftware developmentData analysisCustomer engagementcommunicationLeadershipGoAIGitHubProduct ManagementCollaborationCustomer SuccessSales
About this role
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.
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
Requirements:
- 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
- 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