Staff Product Designer

About GitHub

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Locations

In this role you can work from Remote, United States

Overview

GitHub is looking for an experienced Product Designer to join the Design team. At GitHub, we build solutions that improve the developer experience so they can learn, collaborate, automate, build, and deliver software with quality and confidence. As a Product Designer, you will partner with other designers, product managers, and engineers to build the future of developer tools and interactive experiences extending across the web, IDEs, terminals, and mobile. 

The GitHub Product Design Team is a group of talented individuals with varied backgrounds in product design, design systems, design ops, front-end development, and illustration. You'll prioritize customer experiences, working closely with systems designers, engineers, technical writers, and product management to create and push for high-quality design.

Staff Product Designers at GitHub are expert individual contributors; they're given a lot of autonomy and trust to work on our most impactful design projects. 

Responsibilities

• Shaping: Defining great products and developer experiences with a point of view, where good defaults and what not to include is as intentional as essential as what makes it into the final solution.
• Systems thinking: This role requires a designer who can think systematically when it comes to information architecture as well as existing and emerging UI patterns.
• Progress and tempo: it's easy to get caught up in the meta-design details, so our team must be mindful that we keep making decisions and move forward quickly. We prioritize progress over correctness.
• Curiosity: In a fast-paced environment like AI and LLMs, our designers remain curious and comfortable learning about existing and upcoming new capabilities to identify opportunities.
• Ideate: Guides communication with cross disciplinary teams inside and across job families through all stages of ideation, design, and development. Owns communication for what one is doing in a proactive way. Explore and shape solutions for existing and new AI experiences based on existing and upcoming model capabilities.
• Design Quality: Design responsive and accessible experiences that work across multiple platforms.
• Communication: Guides communication with cross disciplinary teams inside and across job families through all stages of ideation, design, and development. Owns communication for what one is doing in a proactive way.
• Collaboration: Builds meaningful relationships across the product, engineering, and other cross-functional partners you're working with. Connects dots between teams to enable collaboration, identifying opportunities to build on the work of others and leverage previous work.

Qualifications

Required qualifications:

• 10+ years experience in product or service design
• • OR Bachelor’s Degree in Industrial Design, Product Design, Human Computer Interaction, or related field AND 8+ years experience in product or service design
  • OR Master’s Degree in Industrial Design, Product Design, Human Computer Interaction, or related field AND 6+ years experience in product or service design
  • OR Doctorate in Industrial Design, Product Design, Human Computer Interaction, or related field AND 4+ years experience in product or service design
  • OR equivalent experience
• Experience as a Product Designer working with Engineers, Product Managers, and other Designers.
• Experience designing end to end complex, multi‑workflow SaaS products.

Preferred qualifications:

• Experience with rapid prototyping and working with developer tools, specifically AI agents and CLI.
• Portfolio showcasing your involvement in projects, highlighting your hands-on experience as a product designer.
• Experience designing for Large Language Models and AI.
• Experience designing for developer tools.
• Experience contributing to or using an established design system.

Compensation Range

The base salary range for this job is USD $140,400.00 - USD $372,300.00 /Yr.

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. 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.

This position will be open for a minimum of 3 days, with applications accepted on an ongoing basis until the position is filled.

GitHub values

• Customer-obsessed
• Ship to learn
• Growth mindset
• Own the outcome
• Better together
• Diverse and inclusive

Manager fundamentals

• Model
• Coach
• Care

Leadership principles

• Create clarity
• Generate energy
• Deliver success

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.

EEO Statement

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!