GitHub is the world’s leading platform for agentic software development, seeking an experienced Product Designer to join their Design team. This role focuses on designing Security, Enterprise, and Platform products, improving the developer experience through collaboration and high-quality design.
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
- Design responsive and accessible experiences that work across multiple platforms
- Explore and shape solutions for existing and new AI experiences based on existing and upcoming model capabilities
- Provide regular design feedback and direction to your coworkers
- Seek out opportunities for connecting with people and teams working on related projects
- Build meaningful relationships across the product, engineering, and other cross-functional partners you're working with
Requirements:
- 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 in enterprise environments, security domains, governance models, or other complex at scale systems
- A portfolio demonstrating high-craft, hands-on experience designing dev tools or SaaS products and interactions—especially if it includes AI-driven products
- Familiarity with frontend languages and coding concepts
- Experience designing for Large Language Models and AI
- Experience designing for developer tools
- Experience contributing to or using an established design system