About GitHub GitHub is the world’s leading platform for agentic software development — powered by Copilot to build, scale, and deliver secure software. Over 180 million developers, including more than 90% of the Fortune 100 companies, use GitHub to collaborate, and more than 77,000 organisations have adopted GitHub Copilot.
Locations In this role you can work from Remote, United Kingdom
Overview GitHub helps companies and organizations succeed by allowing them to build better software, together. Are you passionate about application security? Would you like to ensure developers get a world-class experience working with security tools? Have a technical and curious mindset? We have a role for you!
We're looking for experienced, technical-minded professionals who want to partner with senior leaders, engineers, and technical teams at our most strategic customers focused on accelerating and growing their success with GitHub Advanced Security. You will become a key expert in supporting customers with GitHub Advanced Security.
The ideal candidate shows a passion to help secure the world’s code. Field Security Specialists are also recognized as senior subject matter experts, in part by their activity in supporting customers where they are (including via industry groups, technical committees, and research opportunities) and by using their ability to synthesize customer experience to provide an industry lens in public presentations and writing in addition to supporting a variety of diverse internal teams, including sales professionals, product management, engineering, and marketing in efforts that ensure that GitHub, and our customers, are successful, together. We're obsessed with our customers and the quality of our work. If you are technically sharp, security-focused and people-oriented, you might be a fit for this role!
Responsibilities Customer interaction: Adept at working with large and strategic corporations with minimal oversight. Possess Technical and Business skills, including:
Internal collaboration: Engage in cross-functional collaboration within GitHub, including Sales, Professional Services, Technical Product Management, Product Marketing, Engineering, and Marketing. Work with these teams to understand and convey deep customer needs, product roadmap and direction, as well as detailed product and technical capabilities.
External Collaboration: Build a network of leaders, tastemakers/influencers, and customers to inform your own knowledge of the product and corporate landscape as well as position GitHub as an integral part of the security space. Become a trusted partner with leadership at GitHub’s strategic customers, allowing GitHub to provide an enhanced experience, as well as be better able to position GitHub for future sales opportunities. Build relationships with key decision-makers, visit customers on-site, and serve as a trusted advisor and point of contact
GitHub Advanced Security expertise: Possesses deep technical knowledge of GitHub’s Advanced Security features and capabilities to be able to position them to customers, as well as provide timely answers to their technical questions. You understand the code analysis landscape and market segment, and the needs of users and developers. You have a high-level knowledge of GitHub’s CodeQL technology.
Business Development: Be a partner to the field sales team. Help them understand and improve the relationship with their customers. Drive customer happiness, and plans to assess the market opportunity for GitHub Products and Services by aligning resources to meet business goals.
Represent GitHub: You will be a leader for your market and represent GitHub at customer and partner meetings as well as small and large events. You will be a key resource supporting GitHub to hit aggressive sales targets.
Qualifications Required Qualifications:
Preferred Qualifications:
GitHub values
Manager fundamentals
Leadership principles
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.
Equal Employment Opportunity 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!
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