Responsibilities

• Lead GitHub’s Brand Studio team, providing clear creative direction, strong people leadership, and thoughtful prioritization across a broad range of marketing and brand work.
• Translate business, brand, product, and executive signals into compelling creative strategy and actionable direction for the team.
• Partner closely with Brand Strategy & Narrative, Integrated Growth Marketing, Product Marketing, Events, Communications, Social, Web, Brand Experience, and executive stakeholders to ensure the GitHub brand is showing up with clarity, consistency, and creative excellence.
• Guide the development of visual systems for campaigns, events, launches, executive storytelling, social moments, editorial content, presentations, and other high-impact brand experiences.
• Protect the team’s focus by helping sort signal from noise, clarify priorities, manage stakeholder expectations, and ensure the studio is working on the highest-value creative opportunities.
• Champion the GitHub visual identity, ensuring the brand remains distinct, modern, developer-authentic, and creatively ambitious.
• Evolve scalable creative systems, templates, guidelines, and design practices that allow the brand to travel consistently across teams, channels, and regions.
• Maintain the team’s culture grounded in trust, craft, collaboration, experimentation, and high standards.
• Coach and develop a talented team of creative specialists, helping each person grow their impact while preserving the autonomy and creative energy that make the studio special.
• Partner with external agencies, freelancers, and production partners when needed, ensuring outside work meets GitHub’s creative bar and brand standards.