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Locations

In this role you can work from Remote, United States

Overview

As a Senior Program Manager in the Product organization, you will assume a critical role in developing and maintaining GitHub’s Privacy and Data Governance program. Working cross-functionally with leaders from Product, Engineering, Marketing, Security, Legal and other teams, you will build and lead a program dedicated to maintaining an organization-wide privacy and data governance strategy. You will ensure that all data management practices comply with legal and regulatory standards, such as GDPR and CCPA, while enabling product teams to remain agile in their development and delivery processes. This role involves managing the backlog for an engineering team dedicated to structuring and maintaining the company’s data systems, tools, and infrastructure, enabling operational oversight of privacy regulations and other global compliance standards. In addition to working closely with GitHub stakeholders, you will be the primary liaison with the Microsoft Data Governance Foundation, serving as our Privacy and Data Governance champ. 

As the right candidate, you have a proven track-record delivering highly strategic and complex programs in a fast-paced environment, along with the ability to articulate program vision, unite a cross-functional team, deliver against accelerated timelines, and proactively flag and mitigate risks. You have an executive presence, are analytical and data-driven, and a strategic thinker who is able to build relationships with ease. 

Responsibilities

• Own the solution for your area. You will take operational ownership for the success of GitHub’s Privacy and Data Governance initiatives, working in close collaboration with stakeholders to build the vision and execute on the program, ensuring that it aligns with regulatory requirements (e.g., GDPR, CCPA) as well as our overall strategy, and with our Microsoft counterparts. You will take a creative and strategic approach to solving complex data governance and privacy challenges, using sound judgment to make high-quality decisions even when faced with incomplete information or high ambiguity. You will ensure that data governance operations enable product teams to remain agile while maintaining high compliance standards.

• Be an expert on GitHub product operations and have a comprehensive understanding of both the regulatory landscape and engineering principles. You will develop and maintain a deep understanding of the regulatory environment, staying informed about trends in privacy laws, data governance requirements, and compliance standards to evolve GitHub’s data governance strategy. You will serve as a key decision-maker for data governance policies, practices and standards.

• Ensure compliance, regulatory alignment and manage risks. You will create and implement monitoring systems to ensure data integrity and security. Be ready to incorporate new information and requirements on a regular basis, and guide Product, Engineering, Design and other teams through any ambiguity. You will lead risk assessments and audits, and establish effective controls to mitigate data governance risks.

• Collaborate across teams. You will drive changes that impact multiple organizations thoughtfully while also keeping all stakeholders aligned. You will play a critical role creating alignment between Product teams, Privacy, Legal, Microsoft’s Data Governance Foundation and Engineering teams, and the wider GitHub organization. We win or lose as a team. 

• Communicate effectively and proactively. You will communicate with the team, leadership, and key stakeholders frequently and effectively, often serving as the primary liaison between product, legal and engineering teams to ensure that all privacy and data governance policies are both aligned with regulatory requirements, are well-understood and consistently implemented across the organization. You will clearly, concisely, and assertively articulate the problems being solved, the roadmap, its benefits and tradeoffs, and serve as a role model for collaboration and creating alignment across teams.

• Measure success. Own the measures used to define success for your area. You will define the key performance indicators (KPIs)  for measuring the success of data governance initiatives, ensuring these metrics reflect both compliance and business outcomes. You’ll make measures visible to all stakeholders and interpret them into actionable conclusions and new hypotheses.

Qualifications

Required Qualifications:

• 8+ years experience in engineering, design, product management, product/design operations

  • Or a Bachelor’s Degree AND 6+ years experience in engineering, design, product management, or product/design operations 

  • OR equivalent experience 

• 4+ years experience managing and executing complex, cross-functional programs in data governance, privacy or related field

• 4+ years experience conducting data analysis, ensuring accuracy in project deliverables, and producing written and verbal reports to stakeholders

• 4+ years experience managing programs and projects, applying decision-making frameworks to evaluate strategies and implement alternative solutions, resulting in improved project outcomes

Preferred Qualifications:

• Strong knowledge of data privacy regulations and compliance standards (e.g., GDPR, CCPA)

• Proven ability to articulate program vision, manage risks in highly complex environments, build and lead multidisciplinary teams, and execute against accelerated timelines

• Previous experience working with a privacy / data engineering team

• Familiarity with modern software development practices, cloud data platforms, big-data query engines (e.g., Spark, Databricks, Presto) and data lakehouse architecture

• Self-starter mentality, yet a team player with a collaborative approach

Compensation Range

The base salary range for this job is USD $112,800.00 - USD $299,300.00 /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 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 100 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.

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