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Product Designer Intern

Github, Inc. • United States of America 🇺🇸

Remote $33.17 - $87.93 Full-time Intern

Collaborate with designers, researchers, engineers, and product partners to design inclusive user experiences. Contribute to the design system and evolve inclusive design practices.

Responsibilities

  • Collaborate with designers, researchers, engineers, and product partners to design experiences that work for a wide variety of users.
  • Design and iterate on inclusive user flows, components, and UI patterns.
  • Annotate accessibility specs and intent of designs in Figma.
  • Help evolve our inclusive design practices, including contributions to accessibility reviews, usability testing, and inclusive research.
  • Contribute to documentation and design guidance related to inclusivity and accessibility.
  • Learn and apply WCAG accessibility standards, but go beyond compliance to advocate for human-centered design decisions.

Requirements

  • Currently pursuing a Bachelor’s degree in Product Design, Human-Computer Interaction, Accessibility Studies, or a related field, with at least one term remaining post-internship.
  • A portfolio demonstrating thoughtful design work with an eye toward inclusion and accessibility.
  • Experience with designing equitable experiences that consider diverse user needs and contexts through internships, academic projects, research, or equivalent work.

Key Skills

  • Experience using design tools such as Figma.
  • Curiosity about emerging technologies such as AI, and how they impact inclusive and accessible design.
  • Familiarity with accessibility and inclusive design frameworks (e.g., WCAG, POUR principles, or Microsoft Inclusive Design toolkit).
  • Basic knowledge of HTML/CSS or design systems.
  • Strong written communication skills.

Benefits

  • Annual bonus and stock.
  • Employee benefits, including health insurance, retirement plan, and paid time off.

About Github, Inc.

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.

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