Job Description 

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 150+ million developers, including more than 90% of the Fortune 100 companies, use GitHub to collaborate and experiment across 420+ 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

The Sr. Program Manager, Learning Solutions will own the strategy, operations, and optimization of GitHub’s global learning infrastructure. This role is responsible for managing the end-to-end systems powering our public, customer, and partner learning experiences—including GitHub Learn, Pearson VUE, Microsoft Learn, GitHub Skills, and integrated third-party platforms.

This individual contributes to the analysis, design, development, evaluation, and management of learning programs and initiatives by identifying organizational and learning needs, securing resources, communicating with stakeholders, and prioritizing work. Collects data to see how successfully the content is meeting pre-established learning objectives for specific deliverables. Uses data to prioritize analyses to execute on, define capability gaps for the business, improve benchmarking, and execute on learning priorities through learner-centric methodology. Initiates, facilitates, and implements core learning programs. Evaluates and analyzes ongoing effectiveness of programs. Supports and escalates customer/stakeholder needs. Organizes systems for documenting, storing, and retrieving items. Manages information architecture frameworks and content management processes. Accesses recent research and content experts in Learning and Development to inform best practices. 

By combining technical program management, data-driven insights, and change management best practices, this role ensures that GitHub’s learning ecosystem delivers seamless learner journeys, trusted credential reporting, and actionable insights that drive adoption of GitHub products at scale.

Responsibilities

• Learning Systems Ownership: Manage and evolve GitHub’s learning systems (Pearson VUE, Microsoft Learn, GitHub Skills, CRM and voucher systems), ensuring reliability, scalability, and learner-centric design.
• Data & Insights: Define reporting frameworks and dashboards for training, certification, and credential adoption. Partner with data and BI teams to provide actionable insights that link learning outcomes to product consumption and ARR growth.
• Integration & Alignment: Drive alignment between GitHub and Microsoft Worldwide Learning, ensuring GitHub certifications, credentials, and data flow seamlessly into Microsoft Learn, LinkedIn Learning, and partner ecosystems.
• Change Management & Adoption: Build and execute strategies to increase learner engagement and certification uptake through insights-driven campaigns, nudges, and system enhancements.
• Program Operations: Establish governance for voucher distribution, credential reporting, and learner data privacy/compliance across global programs.
• Partner Enablement: Support Global System Integrators (GSIs), Cloud Solution Providers (CSPs), and strategic partners with scalable learning operations, reporting, and systems integration.
• Third-Party Collaboration: Engage with content developers, certification vendors, and learning platform providers to extend GitHub’s learning ecosystem and meet learners where they are.
• Innovation & Roadmap: Define the long-term roadmap for GitHub’s learning infrastructure and analytics capabilities, supporting GitHub’s goal of training and credentialing 1 billion developers.

Qualifications

Required Qualifications:

• 7+ years experience in training facilitation, training design and development, adultlearning theory, instructional design, enablement, or equivalent field
  • OR Bachelor’s Degree in Education, Business, Psychology, or a related field AND 5+ years experience in training facilitation, training design and development, adult learning theory, instructional design, enablement, or equivalent field
  • OR Master’s Degree in Instructional Design, Learning and Development, or related field AND 3+ years experience in training facilitation, training design and development, adult learning theory, instructional design, enablement, or equivalent field
  • OR equivalent experience.

Preferred Qualifications:

• 9+ years experience in training facilitation, training design and development, adult learning theory, instructional design, enablement, or equivalent field
  • OR Bachelor’s Degree in Education, Business, Psychology, or a related field AND 7+ years experience in training facilitation, training design and development, adult learning theory, instructional design, enablement, or equivalent field
  • OR Master’s Degree in Instructional Design, Learning and Development, or related field AND 5+ years experience in training facilitation, training design and development, adult learning theory, instructional design, enablement, or equivalent field
  • OR equivalent experience.
• 3+ years experience using learning technologies and learning management systems.
• 7+ years experience in Enterprise Software/Saas.
• 3+ years experience in change management and/or technology adoption.
• Understanding of GitHub’s product portfolio (Copilot, Actions, GHAS, etc.) and its role in developer productivity.
• Strong collaboration skills with Microsoft Worldwide Learning, Global Partner Solutions, or equivalent ecosystems.

Compensation Range

The base salary range for this job is USD $96,400.00 – USD $255,700.00 /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 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.

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!