Senior Product Designer

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Locations: In this role you can work from Remote, Canada
Overview:

GitHub is looking for an experienced Senior Product Designer to join the Design team.At GitHub, we build solutions that improve the developer experience so they can learn, collaborate, automate, build, and deliver software with quality and confidence.

 

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. Generates and leads ideation solutions for products involving moderately complex
challenges to improve product designs. Prototypes for new products as efficiently as possible. Leads collaborations with Engineering for successful design implementation and performs quality checks to ensure the final design is implemented as intended. Produces high quality designs from concept to delivery. Creates wireframes, journey maps, jobs to be done, scenarios, task flows, and personas in support of interaction designs for hardware and/or software-based experiences. Contributes to the use and adoption of latest design system primitives and components. 

 

Responsibilities:

• Define and Plan: Collaborate with product management and development team members to shepherd end-to-end experiences from concept to ship for products.
• Interaction Design: Create wireframes, journey maps, jobs to be done, scenarios, task flows, and personas in support of interaction designs for hardware and/or software-based experiences.
  Prototyping: Use digital and physical tools to demonstrate design to teams, customers, and/or stakeholders.
• Design Quality: Lead collaborations with Engineering for successful design implementation and performs quality checks to ensure the final design is implemented as intended.
• Collaboration: Seek out opportunities to connect with people and teams working on related projects. Foster meaningful relationships with product, engineering, and other cross-functional partners.
• Systems thinking: Ensure products are aligned with latest design system primitives and components.
• 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.
• 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.

Qualifications:

Required qualifications:

• 7+years of experience in product or service design

  • OR Bachelor's Degree in Industrial Design, Product Design, Human Computer Interaction, or related field AND 5+ years experience in product or service design

  • OR Master's Degree in Industrial Design, Product Design, Human Computer Interaction, or related field AND 3+ years experience in product or service design

  • OR Doctorate in Industrial Design, Product Design, Human Computer Interaction, or related field AND 1+ year(s) experience in product or service design

  • OR equivalent experience.

• 5+years of experience designing products for end-to-end experiences 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 contributing to or using an established design system.

• Experience designing for developer tools.

 

GitHub Leadership Principles:

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 100 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.
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