
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…

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…
What: AI-powered developer platform and code-hosting service
Scale: 100M+ users and 330M+ repositories
Founded: 2008
Ownership: Acquired by Microsoft (2018)
Notable products: GitHub.com, GitHub Enterprise, Copilot
Software development collaboration and developer productivity
2008
Software Development
$100,000,000
First institutional venture round
$250,000,000
Brought disclosed outside funding to $350M
$7.5 billion
Acquired by Microsoft in stock; acquisition closed October 2018
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About GitHub
GitHub is the world’s leading platform for agentic software development — powered by Copilot to build, scale, and deliver secure software. Over 180 million developers, including more than 90% of the Fortune 100 companies, use GitHub to collaborate, and more than 77,000 organisations have adopted GitHub Copilot.
Locations
In this role you can work from Remote, United States
Overview
We’re looking for a senior design leader to redefine what a design system is in an agent-native world.
GitHub is looking for a Senior Design Director, Design Systems to lead the evolution of our design system into an AI-compatible, agent-ready platform. This leader will be responsible for transforming Primer from a traditional component library into a system that enables both humans and AI agents to generate high-quality, accessible, and cohesive user experiences.
You will lead a multidisciplinary team of designers and engineers, with the opportunity to grow the team through open headcount, and drive alignment across design, product, and engineering. This role requires a leader who can operate with clarity, cut through complexity, and deliver systems that scale across one of the most widely used developer platforms in the world.
Responsibilities
System Vision and Foundations
Quality and Governance
Cross-Functional Execution and Impact
Team Leadership and Growth
Qualifications
Required Qualifications
12+ years experience in product, platform, or systems development
OR Bachelor's Degree in Design, Human-Computer Interaction, Computer Science, or related field AND 10+ years experience
OR Master's Degree in Design, Human-Computer Interaction, Computer Science, or related field AND 8+ years experience
Preferred Qualifications
Compensation Range
The base salary range for this job is USD $160,200.00 - USD $425,000.00 /Yr.
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
Manager fundamentals
Leadership principles
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.
EEO Statement
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!
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OR Doctorate in related field AND 6+ years experience
OR equivalent experience
6+ years experience leading multidisciplinary teams across design and engineering, including managing managers
Proven experience building or leading design-to-code systems or platforms that bridge design and engineering