Staff Product Manager

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 changing the way the world builds and secures software, and we want you to help build GitHub! 

Over 100 million developers use GitHub to build, ship, and maintain their software. Underneath every repository, every pull request, and every AI-powered workflow is a data infrastructure that has to handle unprecedented scale, stay resilient, and evolve fast enough to power what GitHub can offer next. As AI-driven development accelerates, the demands on that infrastructure keep growing, and the data layer is where the most consequential architectural decisions get made. 

We're looking for a Staff Product Manager to join the Data Services team within Platform. Data Services owns the foundational data platforms GitHub runs on: relational and non-relational storage, caching, event streaming, search, and object storage. These systems underpin everything from core Git operations to Copilot, and how they evolve will power what GitHub delivers for the next generation of developers and AI workloads. 

This is a role where you shape the future of GitHub's data platform. You'll partner closely with engineering to define strategy across a broad and complex portfolio, drive alignment on the decisions that determine how GitHub scales into the AI era, and own the product direction for data infrastructure that hundreds of millions of developers ultimately depend on. 

Responsibilities:

• Define and drive the product vision and strategy for GitHub's data infrastructure, spanning MySQL, Kafka, Elasticsearch, Redis, object storage, and next-generation data primitives.

• Define the strategy for evolving GitHub's data platform portfolio, determining where to scale and optimize existing systems and where adopting modern cloud-native services best serves GitHub's reliability and scale requirements.

• Lead the product definition for GitHub's multi-region data architecture, driving alignment on per-service consistency models, replication strategies, and data-layer failover design and RTO/RPO tradeoffs.

• Drive the product strategy to scale GitHub's data layer by 10x to 100x, ensuring foundational platform capabilities keep pace with AI-accelerated development and next-generation product features.

• Define the data model interaction layer and best practices for internal teams building customer-facing applications and features, so product teams can build on data primitives without needing to be infrastructure experts.

• Define metrics that measure infrastructure health, migration progress, and reliability outcomes, and use them to drive investment decisions and hold engineering accountable on results. 

Qualifications:  

Required Qualifications

• 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

• 3+ years of experience defining product vision and strategy for data infrastructure, cloud platforms, or large-scale distributed systems, and translating complex technical direction into clear priorities and a roadmap. 
• 3+ year experience with data technologies such as MySQL, Kafka, Elasticsearch, Redis, or equivalent managed data services, applied at scale in production environments. 
• Track record of driving cross-organizational alignment across large engineering organizations, including influencing senior and executive audiences. 

Preferred Qualifications

• Master's Degree in a relevant field.

• Strong technical foundation with the ability to engage credibly with senior engineers on architecture decisions involving data storage, replication, consistency, and distributed systems tradeoffs.

• Experience owning cloud migration or modernization strategy for data infrastructure, including evaluating tradeoffs between scaling self-hosted systems and adopting managed services.

• Experience defining product requirements for multi-region data architectures, including per-service consistency models, replication strategies, and data-layer failover design.

• Experience defining platform contracts or paved paths for data primitives, enabling application teams to adopt standard caching, search, or event streaming patterns without bespoke infrastructure work.

• Experience building product strategy for AI-native data capabilities such as vector search, semantic retrieval, or high-throughput event pipelines that serve both human and machine workloads at scale. 

Compensation Range: The base salary range for this job is USD $140,400.00 - USD $372,300.00 /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 Leadership Principles:

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

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