Senior Product Operations Manager

About the role

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 organizations have adopted GitHub Copilot.

Responsibilities

• Drive release operations across our developer AI portfolio, running the rhythms that keep launches on track and driving cross-functional coordination between product, GTM, and engineering teams.
• Own the strategy and backlog for AI-powered operational systems we're building to make Engineering, Product, Design and GTM teams dramatically more efficient.
• Deeply understand how product and GTM teams work today, identify the highest-value opportunities for automation, and define what to build next.
• Maintain and prioritize the backlog for operational automation, working with automation engineers to translate operational insight into shipped solutions.
• Define success metrics for the systems you own, measure adoption and impact, and iterate based on what you learn.
• Stay deeply fluent in modern AI capabilities (LLMs, agents, copilots, automation platforms) so you can identify where they unlock step-function improvements and where they don't.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree AND 6+ years experience in engineering, design, product management, or product/design operations
• OR 8+ years experience in engineering, design, product management, or product/design operations
• OR equivalent experience
• 3+ years’ experience in SaaS or cloud platform product development lifecycle environments
• 3+ years’ experience driving cross-functional coordination across product, engineering, marketing, or revenue stakeholders
• Bachelor's Degree AND 10+ years experience in engineering, design, product management, or product/design operations
• OR 8+ years experience in engineering, design, product management, or product/design operations
• OR equivalent experience
• Experience with release management, launch readiness, or go-to-market operations for a multi-product portfolio
• Experience owning a backlog or roadmap and working with engineers to deliver against it
• Fluency with modern AI capabilities: you follow developments in LLMs, agents, and AI-powered automation and can distinguish high-value applications from hype
• Passion for GitHub, developer tools, and the developer ecosystem

Compensation

The base salary range for this job is USD $124,000.00 - USD $329,200.00 /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.