LOCATIONS

In this role you can work from Remote, Netherlands
Overview
At GitHub, we are passionate about creating innovative solutions that enhance the developer experience for millions of people worldwide. As a Design Engineer, you’ll work closely with designers, product managers, and engineers to shape the next generation of developer tools. Join us at this exciting time in our company’s journey, where your contributions will be essential in elevating our core experiences and driving GitHub toward a bold future!
As a Principal Design Engineer at GitHub, you’ll be both a strategic visionary and a hands-on practitioner, adept at generating innovative ideas and building upon the creativity of your peers. Your passion for prototyping new concepts and collaborating across disciplines will be key as you work at the intersection of design and front-end engineering. Partnering closely with systems designers, engineers, and product managers, you’ll champion high-quality design and user experiences. We’re looking for someone who can drive transformative solutions, elevate design standards, and continually expand their expertise in cutting-edge design technologies and methodologies.
Design Engineers at GitHub are expert individual contributors; they’re given a lot of autonomy and trust to work on our most impactful design projects. For this specific role, you will report directly to the Interim Head of Design.

REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS:

• 12+ years’ experience in product or service design,
• OR bachelor’s degree in Industrial Design, Product Design, Human Computer Interaction, or related field AND 10+ years’ experience in product or service design,
• OR master’s degree in Industrial Design, Product Design, Human Computer Interaction, or related field AND 8+ years’ experience in product or service design,
• OR doctorate in Industrial Design, Product Design, Human Computer Interaction, or related field AND 6+ year(s) experience in product or service design,
• OR equivalent experience.

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS:

• 17+ years’ experience in product or service design
• 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.

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.

• Estimate and create individual and team schedules, define and prioritize product plans, and influence the prioritization of the product backlog to ensure clarity and alignment across teams.
• Work with teams to generate ideation solutions for products facing moderately complex challenges, synthesizing user needs and business insights to improve product designs.
• Efficiently bring designs to life by creating robust interactive prototypes, collaborating with engineering teams to ensure successful implementation, and performing quality checks to meet design expectations.
• Shape and refine information architecture by approaching discovery phases with a multilayered perspective, ensuring robust and intuitive systems while continuously evolving and scaling design systems for long-term growth and impact.
• Create wireframes, journey maps, and personas to support interaction designs, and produce high-quality visual design deliverables that adhere to brand and inclusivity principles across various interfaces.
• Contribute to the adoption and integration of the latest design system components, ensuring product alignment and consistency with company-wide standards, while continuously evolving the system to support the growth and changing needs of the organization.
• Communicate effectively with cross-disciplinary teams throughout all stages of ideation, design, and development, managing tonality and context to ensure clear and inclusive messaging.
• Work with team members, product managers, and developers to define and iterate on product features, while influencing stakeholders across job families to enable collaboration and leverage previous work.
• Produce high quality designs from concept to delivery. Create needed visual design and interaction design deliverables including assets, animations, and flows. Advocate for and oversee brand adherence and promotion of inclusivity principles, ensuring designs are accessible.
• Develop interactive experiences that align with GitHub’s brand vision and collaborate with Engineering for successful design implementation.
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