About GitHub

As the global home for all developers, GitHub is the complete AI-powered developer platform to build, scale, and deliver secure software. Over 100 million people, including developers from 90 of the Fortune 100 companies, use GitHub to build amazing things together across 330+ million repositories. With all the collaborative features of GitHub, it has never been easier for individuals and teams to write faster, better code.

Locations

In this role you can work from Remote, United States

Overview

GitHub is looking for product-minded engineers, data scientists, designers, and entrepreneurs wanting to join us as a product manager intern this summer. Together, we will create products that are integral to how people build software. We pride ourselves on being thoughtful, intentional and getting things done. Hopefully you do too.

As a product manager intern you will be expected to bring a passion for helping developers collaborate. You should already be familiar with the way software is developed and some of the tools developers use, and be excited to build a deep expertise in an industry that is changing the world.

GitHub’s engineering and product management organizations are highly distributed, and we embrace an environment of asynchronous communication. We expect you to have strong communication skills and be able to build working relationships with coworkers in locations around the globe. We value a diverse and inclusive culture, a growth mindset, collaboration, owning the outcome, shipping and being customer obsessed. You will excel when the way you work reflects these values.

We want you to enable every team member to do the best work of their lives and we’ll partner to enable the same for you. In this position, you will work closely with product managers, designers, and engineers. You will also be part of a community dedicated to making a positive impact at work and at large.

This is a remote summer internship for 12 consecutive weeks with start dates between May- June 2025.

Responsibilities

• Build products developers love. Conduct two to four product rotations embedded within one of GitHub’s core product teams. During your rotation, you will be given ownership of a specific product area or problem space and will work closely with the team’s product manager to plan and implement a solution to one or more problems that affect millions of developers every day.

• Help inform the product roadmap. Build trust with stakeholders by maintaining an understandable and accurate project timeline.

• Collaborate across teams. We win or lose as a team. Product managers play a critical role in creating alignment between engineering and design teams and stakeholders. A collaborative attitude is critical to the job.

• Measure success. Be responsible for the measures used to define success for your product. Success measures must be defined at the inception of a product and tracked throughout its lifecycle. Make measures visible to all stakeholders and interpret them into actionable conclusions and new hypotheses.

Qualifications

Required Qualifications:

• Currently pursuing a Bachelor degree in business administration, computer science or computer engineering or similar field with at least one additional quarter/semester of school remaining following the completion of the internship.  

• Desire to develop a career in product management with a passion for building user-centric software development tools.

• Ability to capture and distill complex technical issues and use persuasive, research and data-backed reasoning to solve customer problems.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Strong written and verbal communication skills and analytical capabilities. You excel at and enjoy building models and decomposing complex structures and data into useful primitives and analyses.

• Demonstrated ability to work within and across multidisciplinary teams and projects with an ability to keep managers informed of needs and status.

• Proficiency in one or more major programming languages.

• Experience working with a software delivery team or experience with developer tool workflows.

• Ability to share observations, process and receive feedback, demonstrate learning and effectively manage self and time.

• Communicates respectfully supporting a culture of psychological safety within the team

Compensation Range

The base salary range for this job is USD $32.16 - USD $85.38 /Hr.

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.

EEO Statement

GitHub is made up of people from a wide variety of backgrounds and lifestyles. We embrace diversity and invite applications from people of all walks of life. We don’t discriminate against employees or applicants based on gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, race, religion, age, national origin, citizenship, disability, pregnancy status, veteran status, or any other differences. Also, if you have a disability, please let us know if there’s any way we can make the interview process better for you; we’re happy to accommodate!