Oakland, California, United States
Chris Butler is a chaotic good product manager, writer, and speaker. He brings extensive experience in product leadership and operations from top companies including Microsoft, Waze, KAYAK, Facebook Reality Labs, Cognizant, and Google. Currently, Chris serves as Director of Product Operations for GitHub's Synapse team, where he leads bold experimentation in process automation powered by AI.
* Lead for Synapse, focused on for tooling and automation, leveraging AI/ML, to reduce toil for cross-functional teams. Includes speculative experimentation about the future-of-work for cross-functional teams. Product player coach and engineering manager. * OSS release of AI Assessment Comment Labeler and Reporting Rollup and Away that will help teams reduce toil in their day-to-day with AI. * Standing up operations for Agentic Workflow team that handles customer feedback collection, triage, prioritization, and reporting.
* PM'ing the PM experience and linking strategy to execution for the AI & Productivity team (aka GitHub Copilot). * Lead Responsible AI Champion.
Learning and development focused on AI. Sample workshops: AI Product Design Patterns, Spec-Driven Prototyping, and AI case studies (decision-forcing cases).
Make better decisions faster. Red teaming tools enabled by AI.