Staff Product Designer

Who you are

• 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
• 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

What the job involves

• 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
• 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

Benefits

• Flexible time away to support balance in your work and life
• Clear diversity, inclusion, and anti-discrimination policies backed by business practices and company culture
• 100% of medical, dental, and vision insurance premiums covered by GitHub for you + your dependents. (Includes gender-affirming benefits)
• Five months of paid family leave to all new parents with the option to use it all at once or throughout the child’s first year
• Family forming benefits that cover fertility, infertility, adoption, and surrogacy costs and support
• Mental health benefits that offer resources and support and cover therapy and coaching sessions for you and your dependents
• Generous 401(k) matching with 50% match up to the IRS 402(g) limit (US; competitive non-US pension options internationally)
• Employee stock purchase plan that lets you purchase Microsoft stock at a discount. (Microsoft is our parent company.)