Product Design - University Intern

GitHub is on a mission to accelerate human progress through developer collaboration. As an intern on the Product Design team, you will work on experimentation and solving challenging customer problems. You will work inside of the product, helping to create awareness around product features and encourage feature adoption. You will walk away with a holistic view of the entire customer journey and the ability to propose solutions for multiple customer profiles.

Collaboration is the key to GitHub’s success, and you will work closely with cross-functional teams to develop design solutions and collaborate on successful outcomes. Our team is composed of talented individuals who have backgrounds in product design, design systems, design ops, and illustration; as well as CSS experts, and engineers with front-end and full-stack experience working in Rails and React.js.

If you are a designer that enjoys design systems, dipping their hands into code, and thinking about brand expression, you might find a happy home on the GitHub product design team. From ideation to execution, you will research, sketch, create mocks, learn about design systems and accessibility, and use GitHub to build GitHub!

What you will get out of this internship:

This is your chance to bring your ideas to life and directly contribute to a culture of design excellence within your team. You will get experience working in an autonomous, remote-friendly environment where communication and collaboration are asynchronous and in writing.

The internship is designed not only for you to do great work with the opportunity to learn and grow, but also to experience our culture full of diverse community connection, executive engagement, and memorable events.

Please note: The Product Design internships include opportunities on the teams listed below. By submitting your application, you agree to be considered for all positions.

• Design Infrastructure
• Growth Design
• Product Design

What You Will Work On

Responsibilities:

• Design experiences that work across multiple mediums and contexts, following a user all the way from top-of-funnel to directly inside of the GitHub’s product.
• Design flows, prototypes, and high-fidelity mocks for complex and multi-layered user interfaces.
• Learn about and contribute to our product-led growth strategies.
• Strengthen your skills with design tools and learn methodologies of experimentation and agile ways of working across engineering, product and design.
• Collaborate with product, design, research, engineering, and other functions to identify users and business needs.
• Regularly present your work and share feedback in design reviews.

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Required Qualifications:

• You are currently in the process of obtaining a Bachelor’s degree or Master’s degree with an expected conferral date between May 2024 and August 2025
• A portfolio demonstrating skills in at least one of the following: product design, user experience design, design systems, and/or relevant fields

Preferred Qualifications:

• Strong written communication skills
• You have some comfort using git and GitHub, or are motivated to learn.
• Interest in design patterns, design systems, user experience, front-end development, and documenting design guidelines
• Experience or interest in creating icons or vector graphics
• Interest in prototyping or writing HTML, CSS, and/or JS to represent ideas, or are motivated to learn

Minimum hourly rate of $29.81/hour to maximum $60.77/hour.

These pay ranges are intended to cover roles based across the United States. An individual's base pay depends on various factors including geographical location and review of experience, knowledge, skills, abilities of the applicant. At GitHub certain roles are eligible for benefits and additional rewards, including annual bonus and stock. These rewards are allocated based on individual impact in role. In addition, certain roles also have the opportunity to earn sales incentives based on revenue or utilization, depending on the terms of the plan and the employee's role.

Location: In this role, you can work remotely from anywhere in the United States.

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Who We Are:

As the global home for all developers, GitHub is the complete AI-powered developer platform to build, scale, and deliver secure software. Over 100 million people, including developers from 90 of the Fortune 100 companies, use GitHub to build amazing things together across 330+ million repositories. With all the collaborative features of GitHub, it has never been easier for individuals and teams to write faster, better code.

Leadership Principles:

Customer Obsessed - Trust by Default - Ship to Learn - Own the Outcome - Growth Mindset - Global Product, Global Team - Anything is Possible - Practice Kindness

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 many Hubbers work, snack, and create daily. The rest of our Hubbers work remotely around the globe. Check out an updated list of where we can hire here: https://github.com/about/careers/remote

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 Talent Partner.

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