Director, Technical Program Management

About GitHub 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 GitHub is looking for a director to help lead GitHub’s Technical Program Management team in our Engineering organization. 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.   The Director, TPM will strengthen TPM's role as a trusted integrator, driving clarity, accountability, and execution across complex, cross-functional initiatives. They will help teams frame problems, align stakeholders, and accelerate decision-making while raising the effectiveness of TPMs and scaling their influence across the company. This director will foster a culture of ownership, bias for action, and operational excellence, ensuring execution remains tightly aligned with strategic priorities.

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 to address highly complex business, program, customer needs, and/or market opportunities; 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 ensure that they can 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 for risks using data (e.g., telemetry, usage, net satisfaction, customer satisfaction).   Coaches teams to define success criteria and performance metrics (e.g., Objectives and Key Results [OKRs], Key Performance Indicators [KPIs] such as quality and performance) of products, services and works with engineering to ensure needed telemetry is developed. 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 product, services on large cross functional projects with internal teams and external partners. Drives teams to collaborate and coordinate across teams and perspectives to ensure alignment on product management and release, including tradeoffs, adjustments, and improvements as feasible.   Guides teams to partner with the engineering team to contribute, prioritize, and deliver on the roadmap for product, service. Drives teams to understand the value proposition for the feature(s)/feature areas and answer technical questions on the feature(s)/feature areas they own.    Guides teams to justify capacity requirements and advocate for the right resource allocation. Partners with the