GitHub Education’s mission is to empower students with the real-world experience, tools and training they need to be amazing technologists. Hundreds of thousands of students at schools all over the world use GitHub every day. Our two flagship products, the GitHub Student Developer Pack and Classroom for GitHub, are key drivers of adoption and represent opportunities for partnership.

All the pieces are in place for a Partner Program Manager to join the team, strategize and execute on key partnerships to grow the program to scale. If you care about the future of education, can nurture relationships with key decision-makers in commercial and educational environments, and have some technical expertise, we’d love to talk to you. You’ll be part of a distributed team focused on empowering student developers.

Responsibilities:

• Research: Identify and pursue strategic partnerships.
• Process design: Develop and manage process for evaluating partnership opportunities.
• Relationship management: Design and document an evolving set of standard partnership benefits and requirements, negotiate terms of partnership agreements, and maintain partner relations.
• Strategy: Lead the creation of product offerings specifically tailored to partners.
• Communication: Serve as the primary contact for partnership discussions, lead marketing of partnership announcements.
• Growth: Expand our existing partner relationships and establish a cadence of new partner relationships.

Qualifications:

• You have an established track record of successfully managing partner relationships, negotiating agreements and liaising with key stakeholders including senior management.
• You have marketed a portfolio of developer-focused products.
• You have experience creating, documenting, and implementing standardized business procedures.

Bonus Points If:

• You’ve worked asynchronously with distributed team members.
• You have a rolodex of professional relationships with schools and developer focused companies. About GitHub

Who we are

GitHub is the best place to share code with friends, co-workers, classmates, and complete strangers. Over ten million people use GitHub to build amazing things together. With the collaborative features of https://GitHub.com, our desktop and mobile apps, and GitHub Enterprise, it has never been easier for individuals and teams to write better code, faster.

We have a lot of exciting things to do, and we’re looking for the right people to grow with us!

Why you should join

Working at GitHub is, to put it simply, a special slice of the universe. We’re committed to transparency, collaboration, experimentation, and always staying classy.

Because of this unique perspective, we’ve established one of the most flexible and well designed physical workspaces around that encourages you to work as you work best. Right now, over 60% of our employees are based outside of our San Francisco (SOMA) headquarters and work according to how they get their best stuff done.

Ensuring that GitHubbers are healthy, motivated, focused and creative is how GitHub stays awesome. Part of this is ensuring that our benefits are out of this world.

In a nutshell, we’ve built and are growing a place where we truly love working, and we think you will too.

GitHub is made up of people with many different backgrounds and lifestyles, and we like it that way. We invite applications from people of all stripes. We don’t discriminate against employees or applicants based on gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, race, religion, age, national origin, citizenship, pregnancy status, veteran status, or any other differences that people imagine to discriminate against one another. Also, if you have a disability, please let us know if there’s anything we can do to make the interview process better for you; we’re happy to accommodate.

*Please note that benefits vary by country, if you have any questions don’t hesitate to ask your recruiter!

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