As a Staff 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.
Requirements
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. For this specific role, we’re looking for someone who values the following:
- 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.
Responsibilities
- 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.
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
- 5+ years of experience as a Product Designer working with Engineers, Product Managers, and other Designers.
- Experience shipping products/features end-to-end and presenting your work to a variety of audiences.
- Experience designing projects that work across multiple platforms and applying UX principles, user research methods, and a user-centric approach to product design.
Preferred Qualifications
- 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.
