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.)