Senior Product Designer

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Locations: In this role you can work from Remote, Spain
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.

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.

Qualifications:
Required qualifications:
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.
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
2+ years shipping products and experiences
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 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.
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