Overview

GitHub is looking for a designer to join our Design Systems team. The design systems team is responsible for supporting, maintaining, and improving our style guide documentation site, tooling to support design workflows, and our CSS framework—Primer.

As a systems designer, you can help us achieve our ambitious plan to improve and expand our systems across all our platforms and web properties. You’ll get to shape the foundations of this work, and make a positive impact to the design and engineering workflows of GitHubbers, as well as improving the user experience for GitHub customers.

Responsibilities:

  • Lead large-scale UI updates (such color systems, navigation components, and interaction patterns).
  • Be a core contributor to our CSS framework, Primer, by refactoring and improving our CSS and documentation.
  • Triage and fix UI bugs with accessible, user-friendly, and robust solutions.
  • Design for systems that work across multiple platforms.
  • Contribute to the design and implementation of design tools.
  • Work with other designers, PMs, engineers, and marketers to help plan future projects.
  • Be an advocate for design systems, and teach other designers and engineers how to use them.

Minimum Qualifications:

  • Experience working in a product design role or with product teams, with examples of strong interaction work.
  • Experience contributing to design systems within an organization or open-source project.
  • Solid understanding of HTML and CSS (including Sass).
  • Experience rolling out large-scale UI updates. You’ll need to plan, design, and ship updates that touch every part of the GitHub UI.
  • Experience writing technical documentation, such as contribution and installation guidelines, tutorials, and setup instructions for supporting tools.
  • Excellent communication skills. Be able to share ideas to a cross-section of the org in writing since many folks are remote.
  • Experience in training colleagues how to use design systems, CSS frameworks, or other front-end and workflow tools.
  • Experience with GitHub and version control.

Preferred Qualifications:

  • Experience leading a design systems project or team.
  • Experience with package management and versioning.
  • Familiarity with JavaScript or Rails.
  • Experience working with brand application within products.
  • Icon design or distribution.

About GitHub

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

You will have a lot of exciting things to do, and you could grow with us!

Why you should join:

Working at GitHub is, to put it simply, a special slice of the universe. You could join us in our commitment to transparency, collaboration, experimentation, and always staying classy.

Because of this unique perspective, we've established one of the most flexible and well designed physical workspaces around that encourages you to work as you work best. Right now, over 60% of our employees are based outside of our San Francisco (SOMA) headquarters and work according to how they get their best stuff done. Remote GitHubbers also come visit SF often and are encouraged to stay as long as they like!

Ensuring that you are healthy, motivated, focused and creative is how GitHub stays awesome. Part of this is ensuring that our benefits are out of this world.

In a nutshell, we've built and are growing a place in which you will truly love working.