Director, Technical Program Management

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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. Responsibilities:

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., Engineerin