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. 

 
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.