Staff Product Designer

• Denmark
• Design
• Experienced Professional
• Individual Contributor
• Yes
• 4720
• Full Time

About GitHub

As the global home for all developers, GitHub is the complete AI-powered developer platform to build, scale, and deliver secure software. Over 150+ million developers, including more than 90% of the Fortune 100 companies, use GitHub to collaborate and experiment across 420+ million repositories. With all the collaborative features of GitHub, it has never been easier for individuals and teams to write faster, better code.

Locations

In this role you can work from Remote, Denmark

Overview

GitHub is growing its Design team, and we're seeking experienced professionals to elevate our product design efforts. As a Staff Product Designer on the GitHub Copilot team, you'll generate innovative ideas, shape AI-powered developer experiences, and collaborate closely with cross-functional partners to bring high-impact features to life. You'll thrive in this role if you bring a strong sense of curiosity, especially about how emerging technologies like AI and LLMs can reshape how developers build software.

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.

Responsibilities

• Drive product direction by shaping solutions to complex problems, balancing user needs, technical constraints, and business priorities.
• Prototype and explore AI-powered ideas, using model capabilities, user behavior, and design intuition to inform direction.
• Design thoughtful accessible experiences that work seamlessly across web, IDEs, terminals, and mobile.
• Make decisions at pace, help the team move through ambiguity by prioritizing progress over perfection.
• Collaborate with engineers, PMs, and researchers to iterate quickly and deliver high-quality features.
• Communicate clearly and with purpose, aligning teams through storytelling, rationale, and thoughtful critique.
• Scale design through systems thinking, contributing to our design system and applying reusable patterns and architecture.
• Bring clarity to complexity by structuring ambiguous problems and uncovering actionable paths forward.

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 as a Product Designer working with Engineers, Product Managers, and other Designers.
• Experience shipping products/features end-to-end and presenting your work to a variety of audiences.
• Experience designing projects that work across multiple platforms 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 designing for Large Language Models and AI.
• Experience designing for developer tools.
• Experience contributing to or using an established design system.

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.

Equal Employment Opportunity

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