Product Design Intern

Job Description

About GitHub

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.

Locations

In this role you can work from Remote, United States

Overview
As a Product Design Intern at GitHub, you will work to create and evolve interfaces that millions of developers use every day. From ideation to execution, you will work with user insights, draw sketches, create mocks and learn about design systems and accessibility. You will collaborate closely with the rest of the design team, product and engineering and will work with a mentor to help build and develop your foundation as a product designer.  And of course: use GitHub to build GitHub! What will you learn:

• How to work with cross-functional teams to plan and ship large-scale features.
  
  
• How to prioritize tasks, incorporate feedback, and work iteratively.
  
  
• How to collaborate effectively with remote teams across the world.

This is a remote summer internship for 12 consecutive weeks with start dates between May- June 2025.

Responsibilities

• Design flows, prototypes, and high-fidelity mocks for multi-layered user interfaces.
  
  
• Work with product, research, engineering, and other functions to identify users and business needs.
  
  
• Regularly present your work in design reviews and get feedback from other designers.
  
  
• Contribute to our design system, Primer.
  
  

Qualifications
Required Qualifications:

• Currently in the process of obtaining a Bachelor’s degree in Industrial Design, Product Design, Human Computer Interaction or related field with at least one quarter/semester to complete after the internship
  
  
• A portfolio of work demonstrating your product design capabilities, with examples of solid design and interaction work.
  
  

Preferred Qualifications:

• Some experience in remote setups
  
  
• Can prototype and code to represent ideas.
  
  
• A passion for learning.
  
  
• Strong written communication skills.
  
  

Compensation Range

The base salary range for this job is USD $32.16 - USD $85.38 /Hr.

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.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

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