Staff Product Designer, Core UX Design

Job Description

About GitHub

GitHub is the world’s leading platform for agentic software development — powered by Copilot to build, scale, and deliver secure software. Over 180 million developers, including more than 90% of the Fortune 100 companies, use GitHub to collaborate, and more than 77,000 organisations have adopted GitHub Copilot.

Overview

At GitHub, we are passionate about creating innovative solutions that enhance the developer experience for millions of people worldwide. As a Staff Product Designer, you’ll work closely with designers, product managers, and engineers to shape the next generation of developer tools, including pivotal design system advancements and the exploration and implementation of AI-ready UX patterns. Join us at this exciting time in our company’s journey, where your contributions will be essential in elevating our core experiences and driving GitHub toward a bold future!

As a Staff Product Designer at GitHub, you’re a visionary, tastemaker, and visual designer who dreams, sleeps, and breathes design—always thinking big and forward, yet grounding the team in what matters now. You sweat every pixel, bring impeccable quality and craft, and thrive at innovating new styles and exploring bold concepts. Your creativity excites and rallies those around you, and your passion for both product and brand is unmistakable. While this is a product design role, you’ll work extensively on design system initiatives and collaborate on platform-wide and AI-driven UX solutions, partnering across disciplines to champion high standards, inspire transformative solutions, and continually expand your expertise at the intersection of vision and detail.

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. For this specific role, you will report directly to the Senior Director, Core UX Design.

Responsibilities

• Shaping: Define great products and developer experiences with a clear point of view—making intentional choices about what’s included and excluded.
• Systems Thinking: Design systematically, advancing the design system while considering information architecture and evolving UI and AI-ready UX patterns.Tastemaking & Boundary-Pushing: Be a tastemaker who explores new styles, sets trends, and pushes the limits of what's possible.
• Curiosity: Stay adaptable and curious, especially in fast-paced areas like AI and LLMs, to uncover new opportunities and pattern innovations.
• Cross-functional Collaboration: Partner with designers and teams, especially across systems, AI/ML, and engineering, to test ideas, generate solutions, and synthesize user and business insights.
• Prototyping & Implementation: Create interactive prototypes and collaborate with engineering for robust implementation and quality assurance.
• Storytelling: Exceptional written and verbal storytelling skills—you design not just the interface or building blocks, but the way people understand and connect with GitHub products.
• High-Quality Design Production: Deliver high-quality, accessible visual and interaction designs, advocating for brand adherence and inclusivity.
• Brand Alignment: Develop experiences that reflect GitHub’s brand vision and work closely with Engineering for successful outcomes.

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 designing complex, multi‑workflow SaaS products.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience with WCAG compliance and/or implementing accessibility best practices.
• A portfolio demonstrating high-craft, hands-on experience designing dev tools or SaaS products and interactions—especially if it includes AI-driven products.
• Experience designing for Large Language Models and AI.
• Experience contributing to or using an established design system.
• Experience using open source design systems.

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.

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!