GitHub · 10 hours ago
Senior Design Engineer
United States
Full-time
Remote
Senior Level
$124K/yr - $329K/yr
7+ years expGitHub is the world’s leading platform for agentic software development, and they are seeking a Senior Design Engineer to enhance the developer experience. In this role, you will collaborate with designers, product managers, and engineers to shape innovative developer tools and contribute to high-quality user experiences.
Artificial Intelligence (AI)Cloud ComputingDeveloper ToolsInternetProject ManagementSaaSSoftware
Responsibilities
Collaboration & Planning: Work with your team and partners to estimate schedules, set priorities, and support product planning for ongoing projects
Problem-Solving & Synthesis: Generate and iterate solutions for moderately complex product challenges by synthesizing user needs and business insights to improve product design
Exploration & Prototyping: Rapidly explore and prototype interactive concepts, especially around emerging UX patterns and AI-ready design languages, moving fast to test ideas and learn what works. Experiment with design primitives and open source systems
Front-End Craft & Adaptability: Deliver front-end experiences with a focus on quality and detail, adapting quickly to new technologies and approaches—even when all the answers aren’t clear
Systems & Architecture: Support evolving and scaling design systems, contribute to robust information architecture, and help advance open source initiatives
Design Systems Integration: Integrate and use design system components to deliver product consistency and alignment with company standards
Communication: Collaborate and communicate clearly with cross-disciplinary teams throughout ideation, design, and development for inclusive and well-understood messaging
Accessibility & Craft: Deliver accessible, high-quality visual and interaction designs from concept to completion, ensuring assets, flows, and animations support GitHub’s brand and principles
Brand & Experience: Build and refine interactive experiences that fully reflect GitHub’s brand vision
Qualification
Required
7+ years' 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
Preferred
8+ years of experience shipping products and/or delivering to customers as a result of an end-to-end design process
Knowledge of typical data center designs/architectures and be following industry design trends
Experience with performing complex business case analysis to justify technical decisions and present the justification to management in a high-level review
Engineering experience working in modern web development (e.g., React, CSS, HTML, JavaScript methodologies, etc.)
Experience with WCAG compliance and/or implementing accessibility best practices
Benefits
Annual bonus
Stock
Company
GitHub
GitHub is a software company that offers code hosting services that allow developers to build software for open-source and private projects. It is a sub-organization of Microsoft.
501-1000 employees
H1B Sponsorship
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Funding
Current Stage
Late StageTotal Funding
$350MKey Investors
Sequoia CapitalAndreessen Horowitz
2018-06-03Acquired
2015-07-29Series B· $250M
2015-06-19Secondary Market
Leadership Team
PJ Hyett
Co-Founder
Kyle Daigle
Chief Operating Officer
Recent News
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