Overview

GitHub powers the developer community. Since 2008, our platform has brought people together to collaborate, share ideas, and solve problems to build the future. We’ve enabled over 23 million developers and thousands of businesses to build and share their software projects with people all over the world. From NASA using GitHub to put a rover on Mars to Mailchimp working to improve email, amazing things happen every day on our platform.

In the midst of all this technological collaboration is a vibrant company culture, and art is at the core of it. It not only provides a fun work environment for our fellow Hubbers, but also delights our audience—our superfans. With your help we’ll continue building our team into an artistic powerhouse.

As a Creative Director at GitHub, you’ll lead the graphic design team in developing, documenting, and producing the brand strategy and assets. You’ll contribute both strategically and in the actual execution of work, as well as educating internal teams on the importance of brand strategy to ensure consistency across all platforms. Most importantly, we’re looking for someone who will help our team translate marketing objectives into clear creative strategies and enable them to tell inspiring brand stories that elevate the quality of marketing, communications, and product experiences.

Responsibilities:

  • Develop a strategy to maintain, update, and grow the GitHub brand
  • Lead the team to develop a strategy to document, maintain, and grow the GitHub brand
  • Develop a series of sub-brands, such as marketing campaigns and events
  • Collaborate with internal teams such as marketing, product, and sales to ensure brand consistency across all platforms
  • Make strategic decisions about how design projects fit into GitHub’s roadmap and company goals
  • Advocate for designers, their processes, and proposed solutions
  • Manage and mentor a growing team of graphic designers, as well as our Shop team
  • Foster a supportive and inclusive environment for a diverse group of individuals
  • Help build a network of creative partners, including freelance designers, illustrators, and vendors

Minimum Qualifications:

  • Ability to think through design problems and arrive at elegant solutions
  • Comfortable collaborating with various internal teams, as well as working independently
  • Ability to articulate and receive written and verbal feedback
  • Sense of humor and egoless ownership of projects
  • 10+ years of creative agency or internal design team experience
  • 5+ years designing for brand and product
  • Previous management experience, as well as the desire to lead and advocate for others
  • Online portfolio demonstrating strong conceptual thinking and a variety of projects, as well as an understanding of design principles
  • Familiar with tech-driven creative environments

Who We Are:

GitHub is the best place to share code with friends, co-workers, classmates, and complete strangers. Over fifteen million people use GitHub to build amazing things together. With the collaborative features of GitHub.com and GitHub Business, it has never been easier for individuals and teams to write faster, better code.

What We Value:

Collaboration: We believe the best work is done together.
Empathy: We believe in putting people first.
Quality: We believe in setting the standard for excellence.
Positive Impact: We believe in making the world a better place through our work.
Shipping: We believe in creating things for the people using them.

Why You Should Join:

At GitHub, we constantly strive to create an environment that allows our employees (Hubbers) to do the best work of their lives. We’ve designed one of the coolest workspaces in San Francisco (HQ), where over half of our Hubbers work, snack, and create daily. The other half of our Hubbers work remotely in 18 countries across the globe.

We are also committed to keeping Hubbers healthy, motivated, focused and creative. We’ve designed our top-notch benefits program with these goals in mind. In a nutshell, we’ve built a place where we truly love working, we think you will too.

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!

*Please note that benefits vary by country, if you have any questions, please don’t hesitate to ask your Recruiter!