GitHub is the world’s leading AI-powered developer platform with 150 million developers and counting. We’re also home to the biggest open-source community on earth (and 99% of the world’s software has open-source code in its DNA). Many of the apps and programs you use every day are built on GitHub. Our teams are dreamers, doers, and pioneers, leading the way in AI, driving humanitarian efforts around the globe, and even sending open source to Mars (and beyond!). At GitHub, our goal is to create the space you need to do your best work. We’re remote-first and offer competitive pay, generous learning and growth opportunities, and excellent benefits to support you, wherever you are—because we know that people flourish when they can work on their own terms. Join us, and let’s change the world, together.
Principal Product Manager, Agent Platform
Location
United States
Posted
20 hours ago
Salary
$160.2K - $425K / year
Seniority
Lead
Job Description
GitHub is the world’s leading platform for agentic software development — powered by Copilot to build, scale, and deliver secure software. Over 180 million developers, including more than 90% of the Fortune 100 companies, use GitHub to collaborate, and more than 77,000 organisations have adopted GitHub Copilot.
Locations
In this role you can work from Remote, United States
Overview
In this role, you’ll identify and solve customers’ unmet needs in complex, cross-boundary scenarios, defining long-term, data-informed investment opportunities while influencing partners across GitHub and Microsoft. You’ll own and drive roadmaps spanning multiple feature areas, collaborate with partner teams to design golden configurations, and lead scenario walkthroughs that anticipate system friction and customer adoption challenges. You will engage with early adopters, internal and external stakeholders, and senior leadership to gather input, build alignment, and evangelize our vision, strategy, and roadmap.
GitHub’s product and engineering teams are highly distributed, and we embrace asynchronous communication. We expect you to have strong communication skills, deep empathy for developers, and proven experience building trust and alignment across global teams. We value collaboration, quality, positive impact, and shipping. You will excel when the way you work reflects these values and we’ll partner to ensure you do the best work of your life, while helping every developer on the planet build secure software. This role will focus on Agent Platform, including areas such as agent memory, context, code search and code understanding.
Responsibilities
Analysis of Customer & Market Signals
- Champion the voice of enterprise security leaders and developers to ensure our products deliver meaningful risk reduction with an intuitive developer experience.
- Identify and prioritize customer needs by integrating feedback, telemetry, and industry trends.
Product/Service Definition
- Own the product vision for Agent Platform, setting a long-term strategy that aligns customer needs, market dynamics, and GitHub’s mission to make software development secure by default.
- Balance near-term execution with long-term investment.
- Influence senior stakeholders across GitHub and Microsoft.
Product/Service Development
- Collaborate with engineering, design, and applied sciences to deliver developer-first experiences.
- Apply fast learning loops to build outstanding products and experiences.
Go-To-Market & Delivery
- Evangelize GitHub developer-first Agent Platform with customers, partners, analysts, and at industry events
- Build transparency and trust with GTM teams by clearly communicating roadmap priorities and progress.
Performance & Impact
- Use data and customer insights to prioritize investments and measure platform impact.
- Drive systematic, metrics-based decision-making for continuous product improvement.
Qualifications
Required Qualifications:
- 10+ years experience in product/service/project/program management, software development, product design, or related field
- OR Bachelor's Degree in related field AND 8+ years experience in product/service/project/program management, software development, product design, or related field
- OR equivalent experience
- 5+ years experience working in developer tools, or AI-driven products.
- Experience in delivering product vision and roadmap to executive audiences, including product and developer leadership.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Deep expertise in application and developer experience.
- Demonstrated expertise in how AI is transforming software development, with a proven track record of building or integrating AI-driven capabilities.
- Experience influencing across broad organizations and working directly with enterprise customers and partners.
- Track record of success working with engineering, design, finance, sales, customer success, and marketing.
- Recognized thought leader in product management or security, with public speaking, writing, or mentoring experience.
- Passion for GitHub, open source, and the opportunity to redefine how the world builds and secures software.
Compensation Range
The base salary range for this job is USD $160,200.00 - USD $425,000.00 /Yr.
These pay ranges are intended to cover roles based across the United States. An individual's base pay depends on various factors including geographical location and review of experience, knowledge, skills, abilities of the applicant. At GitHub certain roles are eligible for benefits and additional rewards, including annual bonus and stock. These rewards are allocated based on individual impact in role. In addition, certain roles also have the opportunity to earn sales incentives based on revenue or utilization, depending on the terms of the plan and the employee's role.
GitHub values
- Customer-obsessed
- Ship to learn
- Growth mindset
- Own the outcome
- Better together
- Diverse and inclusive
Manager fundamentals
- Model
- Coach
- Care
Leadership principles
- Create clarity
- Generate energy
- Deliver success
Who We Are
GitHub is the world’s leading AI-powered developer platform with 150 million developers and counting. We’re also home to the biggest open-source community on earth (and 99% of the world’s software has open-source code in its DNA). Many of the apps and programs you use every day are built on GitHub.
Our teams are dreamers, doers, and pioneers, leading the way in AI, driving humanitarian efforts around the globe, and even sending open source to Mars (and beyond!). At GitHub, our goal is to create the space you need to do your best work. We’re remote-first and offer competitive pay, generous learning and growth opportunities, and excellent benefits to support you, wherever you are—because we know that people flourish when they can work on their own terms.
Join us, and let’s change the world, together.
EEO Statement
GitHub is made up of people from a wide variety of backgrounds and lifestyles. We embrace diversity and invite applications from people of all walks of life. We don't discriminate against employees or applicants based on gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, race, religion, age, national origin, citizenship, disability, pregnancy status, veteran status, or any other differences. Also, if you have a disability, please let us know if there's any way we can make the interview process better for you; we're happy to accommodate!
Job Requirements
- 10+ years experience in product/service/project/program management, software development, product design, or related field
- OR Bachelor's Degree in related field AND 8+ years experience in product/service/project/program management, software development, product design, or related field
- OR equivalent experience
- 5+ years experience working in developer tools, or AI-driven products.
- Experience in delivering product vision and roadmap to executive audiences, including product and developer leadership.
- Preferred Qualifications
- Deep expertise in application and developer experience.
- Demonstrated expertise in how AI is transforming software development, with a proven track record of building or integrating AI-driven capabilities.
- Experience influencing across broad organizations and working directly with enterprise customers and partners.
- Track record of success working with engineering, design, finance, sales, customer success, and marketing.
- Recognized thought leader in product management or security, with public speaking, writing, or mentoring experience.
- Passion for GitHub, open source, and the opportunity to redefine how the world builds and secures software.
- Compensation Range
- The base salary range for this job is USD $160,200.00 - USD $425,000.00 /Yr. These pay ranges are intended to cover roles based across the United States. An individual's base pay depends on various factors including geographical location and review of experience, knowledge, skills, abilities of the applicant. At GitHub certain roles are eligible for benefits and additional rewards, including annual bonus and stock. These rewards are allocated based on individual impact in role. In addition, certain roles also have the opportunity to earn sales incentives based on revenue or utilization, depending on the terms of the plan and the employee's role.
- GitHub Values
- Customer-obsessed
- Ship to learn
- Growth mindset
- Own the outcome
- Better together
- Diverse and inclusive
- Leadership Principles
- Create clarity
- Generate energy
- Deliver success
- EEO Statement
- GitHub is made up of people from a wide variety of backgrounds and lifestyles. We embrace diversity and invite applications from people of all walks of life. We don't discriminate against employees or applicants based on gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, race, religion, age, national origin, citizenship, disability, pregnancy status, veteran status, or any other differences. Also, if you have a disability, please let us know if there's any way we can make the interview process better for you; we're happy to accommodate!
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