GitHub Product Owner_ Remote

October 16, 2026

Position: GitHub Product Owner
Location: Chicago, IL / Remote 100%
Duration: 12 Months

Job Description

Responsibilities:

Design and own the end-to-end GitHub platform, encompassing organization structure, repository standards, and integration architecture.
Establish and maintain clear, enforceable standards for repository layout, configuration, and developer ways of working.
Design and govern the GitHub security and control model, including pipeline-based security, secrets protection, and code scanning.
Define remediation patterns and expectations, ensuring systemic fixes for security and control issues.
Design and evolve reusable workflows, automation patterns, and GitHub Copilot Agent strategies as shared platform capabilities.
Continuously evolve platform standards, guardrails, and integrations in response to changing GitHub capabilities and security requirements.
Act with integrity, professionalism, and personal responsibility to uphold KPMG's respectful and courteous work environment.

Qualifications:

Minimum ten years of recent, demonstrated experience owning or architecting GitHub Enterprise platforms at an organizational scale.
Bachelor's degree from an accredited college or university in information technology or a related field.

Additional Qualifications:

Demonstrated experience owning or architecting GitHub Enterprise platforms at an organizational scale.
Strong background in DevSecOps and secure SDLC design, including pipeline-based security controls; experience defining developer-centric standards and workflows that scale across teams.
Proven ability to design and govern security controls enforced by platform patterns; comfortable operating as a single accountable owner in a federated enterprise environment.
Excellent written and verbal communication skills, capable of producing standards, guidance, and executive-level material.

Remote

Skills:
Automation, Communication Skills, GitHub, Information Technology & Information Systems, Presentation/Verbal Skills, Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC), Writing Skills

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