GitHub is the largest developer platform in the world, with over 83 million developers from across the planet coming together to meet, learn, discover, collaborate, and create human progress through software. This open source software forms 80% of all new enterprise software products. We want to make sure this open source, collaborative software development is sustainable. We are working on programs and products to enable the economic value of open source software to flow back to the creators so that they can build careers and so that the software that we all depend on can receive the resources it needs to be robust. The Open Source Funding team at GitHub is focused on making open source software work financially sustainable.
Are you interested in working with open source developers and enterprises worldwide to help create a financially stable open source development ecosystem? We are looking for an experienced leader to lead our GitHub Fund team, as the Senior Director for Open Source Funding. GitHub Fund provides research and programs that benefit open source software developers, helping them fund their work in a sustainable, global environment. Through GitHub Sponsors, companies provide millions of dollars of funding to open source developers working on projects they would like to support. Programs like GitHub Fund and Accelerator help open source software developers take their project to the next level of funding whether it’s a business plan or a venture capital investment. Working with open source software developers, we create programs for developers to gain financial support for doing their best work in open source.
As Senior Director of Funding at GitHub, you will be responsible for the overall success of our open source funding products and programs. In your role, you will:
You will bring to the team a proven track record of building great experiences and products through building strong relationships with open source maintainers and enterprises, working across teams within the organization, leading teams in a way that enables them to follow their passion for improving and expanding open source; a global, inclusive viewpoint; strong empathy for the human and social aspect of software development; a strong understanding of financial mechanisms and markets and the ability to grow programs at planet scale.
Responsibilities:
Minimum Qualifications:
Preferred Qualifications:
Minimum salary of $134,800 to maximum $357,500.
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.
Location: In this role, you can work remotely from anywhere in the United States or onsite in one of GitHub’s U.S. offices (San Francisco, Bellevue, Raleigh).
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Who We Are:
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.
Leadership Principles:
Customer Obsessed - Trust by Default - Ship to Learn - Own the Outcome - Growth Mindset - Global Product, Global Team - Anything is Possible - Practice Kindness
Why You Should Join:
At GitHub, we constantly strive to create an environment that allows our employees (Hubbers) to do the best work of their lives. We've designed one of the coolest workspaces in San Francisco (HQ), where many Hubbers work, snack, and create daily. The rest of our Hubbers work remotely around the globe. Check out an updated list of where we can hire here: https://github.com/about/careers/remote
We are also committed to keeping Hubbers healthy, motivated, focused and creative. We've designed our top-notch benefits program with these goals in mind. In a nutshell, we've built a place where we truly love working, we think you will too.
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!
Please note that benefits vary by country. If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to ask your Talent Partner.
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