Senior Content Program Manager, Events

Job Description

We’re looking for a strategic content producer to shape the themes, story arch and programming calendar of our global marquee events. The ideal candidate will have the experience and insights to successfully work across GitHub (and beyond) to craft compelling and impactful content programs that deliver on event, revenue, and company objectives, while delighting, informing and educating our enterprise, start-up, and developer audiences.

The content program manager will lead the strategy, discovery, curation, scheduling and maintenance of the program schedule - ensuring the appropriate balance of topics, level of expertise, internal vs. external speakers, product mix, customer, partner, and community voices, diversity, and more.

Responsibilities:

• Curate our event content programs, with a focus on mainstage, breakout sessions, and on-demand content while providing support and story consistency for keynotes
• Create and manage working groups with colleagues across product marketing, customer success, customer evidence, field marketing, integrated demand generation marketing, and developer relations to identify themes, tracks, stories, speakers, and workshops
• Oversee call for speakers process including the review and approval management of proposals to ensure high-quality and diverse presenters across every program
• Develop high-profile industry / speaker strategy, from development to wish lists, to overseeing outreach and management
• Own speaker management across all hybrid, live and virtual events - including trainings, rehearsals and speaker communications
• Review speaker decks and presentations and offer suggestions to make them stronger / more cohesive with our key event messages
• Think out of the box to imagine new ways to tell technology stories in a hybrid event world, optimizing for breadth (scalability), depth, and platform relevancy
• Act as speaker concierge, directing and supporting agencies to provide a world class experience to our speakers. Our goal is that GitHub events are the best experiences in our speakers’ lives.
• Partner with our event agency to manage speaker logistics including room requirements, AV and recordings

Requirements and Experience:

• 5-7 years relevant experience in content programming for developer-focused global marketing teams, and a total of 7-9 years content and storytelling experience
• Experience building content tracks and programs for high-profile developer / technology / B2B Saas events (experience with developer and/or enterprise audiences is a must)
• Experience in developer relations or community management a plus
• Excellent communication skills with a talent for bringing together cross-functional teams for large projects
• Ability to see the forest through the trees, but also be a fantastic planter and nurturer of ideas, speakers and content
• Instinct to approach all projects with a DEI lens to ensure the process is inclusive and representative of our global developer community
• Ability to work independently on multiple projects simultaneously, under tight time constraints, in a (mostly) virtual environment
• Travel (when safe) ~15% will be expected a few times a year to be on-site for event production and execution
• Must be based in North America and willing to work Pacific time zone hours as needed

(Colorado only*) Minimum salary of $89,200 to maximum $189,300 + bonus + equity + benefits.
· Note: Disclosure as required by sb19-085 (8-5-20) of the minimum salary compensation for this role when being hired in Colorado.

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:

GitHub is the developer company. We make it easier for developers to be developers: to work together, to solve challenging problems, and to create the world’s most important technologies. We foster a collaborative community that can come together—as individuals and in teams—to create the future of software and make a difference in the world.

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.