Staff Product Manager, Copilot RAI & Safety

Do you want to work on a groundbreaking AI product that has started changing the way software is being developed? Are you passionate about leveraging AI in a responsible way to augment developer productivity? Since GitHub Copilot’s first commercial launch in June 2022, it has experienced tremendous growth and made its mark in the developer community. As we look to expand AI assistance to all aspects of development workflow beyond auto-completion, we are looking for a talented and passionate product manager to join our product management team at GitHub Copilot!

GitHub Copilot – Your AI pair programmer is powered by the State-of-the-Art Open AI models and backed by Microsoft Azure Open AI service. As we experiment with Open AI models to expand Copilot’s capability from the single autocomplete to multiple experiences across developers workflow, it’s crucial for us to design guardrails in the product to ensure these models’ output is safe, secure, reliable and trustworthy. 

In this role, you will drive cross company feature development with engineers and scientists at GH, DevDiv and Azure OAI to develop the guardrails; and drive RAI policy compliance with Azure RAI & safety, Office of Responsible AI, and GitHub Trust & safety team to ensure Copilot is developed and used responsibly. This role requires a good understanding of the open-source developer ecosystem particularly in the code safety area. 

Responsibilities:

• Partner with top-notch engineers & scientists to drive RAI feature implementation from planning to final deployment and ensure Copilot users and customers enjoy the full benefit of these features. 
• Design guardrails in the product to ensure these models output are safe, secure, reliable and trustworthy.
• Drive Responsible AI policy compliance, and the creation of AI generated code content safety moderation practices with various stakeholders across Microsoft and GitHub.
• Partner with peer product managers to develop RAI specific prompt crafting playbooks for Copilot partners and engineers/scientists. 

Required Qualifications:

• 7+ years in a product management role, designing and shipping complex products for developers, ML professionals, or similar
• 3+ years of experience in machine learning and/or AI

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience with OpenAI models.
• Understanding of NLU/NLP/NLG and language models.
• Experience in Responsible AI or Code safety
• Ability to communicate clearly and effectively articulate complex technical problems in a simplified and easily understood manner
• Ability to collaborate effectively with engineers and scientists, and the ability to influence team direction through leveraging competitive and industry research analysis
• Bachelor and/or advanced degree in CS, Machine Learning, NLP, or Computational Linguistics

Minimum salary of $118,100 to maximum $313,300.

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.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.

Location: In this role, you can work remotely from anywhere in the United States.

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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.