Director, Developer Strategy Lead

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: Responsibilities:

• Lead GitHub's developer content strategy across awareness, consideration, and adoption — including briefs, timelines, and editorial planning. 

• Create and edit content that hits a high quality bar and focuses on topics developers care about. 

• Translate developer insights and product telemetry into actionable messaging, content themes, and campaigns that drive activation and retention. 

• Partner with Product and PMM to align positioning, messaging, and campaigns designed to sustain product engagement. 

• Work with Lifecycle to build onboarding, nurture, and reactivation email series. 

• Build content strategy to support paid media and creative execution. 

• Define and measure success by analyzing KPIs across campaigns, products, and revenue outcomes. 

• Identify patterns in developer engagement and behavior to refine strategy and improve how developers interact with products over time. 

• Present findings and recommendations to stakeholders, including senior leadership, to inform decision-making. 

• Guide how campaign assets come to life across channels (web, lifecycle, paid media, events), ensuring consistency and relevance. 

• Act as a quality bar for how campaigns show up to developers — flagging when messaging feels overly promotional, abstract, or disconnected from real usage. 

Qualifications:

Required Qualifications

• 10+ years experience in content writing, content design, journalism, or related field
  
  • OR Bachelor's Degree in English, Writing, Literature, Journalism, Communications, Marketing, Philosophy, or related field AND 8+ years experience in content writing, content design, journalism, or related field
  • o OR equivalent experience.
•  3+ years experience leading cross-functional projects with multiple stakeholders/teams (e.g., Developer Relations, Product Marketing, Communications, Executive Communications, Demand Generation) or establishing processes in cross-functional projects.

• Communications, Executive Communications, Demand Generation) or establishing processes in cross-functional projects. 

• Background in Developer Relations, technical writing or developer content creation.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience working across cross-functional teams, including Product Marketing, Paid Media, Lifecycle, and Web. 

• Experience working in a high-tech or digital-native company, preferably in developer tools, SaaS, cloud, AI, or platform-based businesses. 

• A background in DevRel or technical writing.

• Prior experience as a software developer, engineer, or in a hands-on technical role, with a strong understanding of developer workflows, tools, and environments. 

• Proven ability to translate data and research into actionable messaging and campaigns. 

• Experience analyzing content and campaign performance. 

Compensation Range: The base salary range for this job is USD $97,400.00 - USD $258,600.00 /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.

This position will be open for a minimum of 3 days, with applications accepted on an ongoing basis until the position is filled.
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

Who We Are: GitHub is the world’s leading AI-powered developer platform with 150 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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