Senior Manager Developer Policy (Remote)

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, Germany

Overview

GitHub is seeking a Senior Manager, Developer Policy to join its policy team within Corporate External and Legal Affairs (CELA). GitHub’s global impact in supporting open-source software and collaboration is central to creativity, innovation, and advancing software transformation. Our policy team is focused on protecting and promoting the ability of the global, interconnected developer community to accelerate human progress.

This role is a key position on the small GitHub policy team, working across jurisdictions and addressing issues relevant to developers worldwide. It presents a unique opportunity to create a wide-ranging impact while leveraging deep subject matter expertise and the networks the candidate brings.

Responsibilities

• Contribute to the formation and execution of GitHub’s policy agenda, advocating for policies that support open-source innovation and the global developer community.
• Collaborate across GitHub and with external stakeholders to implement strategic initiatives, providing essential materials and insights to advance GitHub’s policy objectives.
• Build relationships with government policymakers, industry influencers, and academic partners, positioning them as advocates for GitHub’s priorities and strengthening GitHub’s impact in the policy space.
• Share expertise with internal teams, providing guidance on public policy and legislative trends that affect product development and business strategy.
• Gather and synthesize insights to support the creation of position papers, policy briefings, and other advocacy materials, helping GitHub address emerging regulatory challenges.
• Coordinate events, social media engagements, and press opportunities, contributing to GitHub’s public voice on policy affecting the open-source community.
• Build and maintain internal alignment on policy priorities, coordinating across departments to achieve shared objectives in dynamic and complex political and policy environments.

Qualifications

Required Qualifications

• Demonstrated impact in technology policy roles, with examples of effective contributions to advocacy efforts or policy initiatives in areas such as open-source software, cybersecurity, or artificial intelligence.
• Proficiency in analyzing policy issues, with a strong understanding of regulatory processes and the strategic application of policy insights to support product and business goals.
• Ability to translate complex technical and policy concepts effectively for diverse audiences, including engineers, non-technical stakeholders, and policymakers.

Preferred Qualifications

• Proactive and adaptable problem-solver, capable of navigating shifting policy landscapes and emerging issues.
• Collaborative, team-oriented mindset with excellent interpersonal skills for relationship-building in a fast-paced, distributed work environment.
• Passionate about technology policy, with the ability to analyze, interpret, and contribute to policy discussions and documentation that advance GitHub’s priorities.
• Demonstrated experience with programming, open source communities, data science, artificial intelligence, or developer tools like GitHub to enhance productivity or explore new capabilities—professionally or for fun!

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.

Equal Employment Opportunity

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!