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.

Requirements

• 12+ years experience in product or brand design
• OR Bachelor's Degree in Industrial, Graphic or Motion Design, Product Design, Human Computer Interaction, or related field AND 10+ years experience in product or brand design
• OR Master's Degree in Industrial, Graphic or Motion Design, Product Design, Human Computer Interaction, or related field AND 8+ years experience in product or brand design
• OR Doctorate in Industrial, Graphic or Motion Design, Product Design, Human Computer Interaction, or related field AND 6+ years experience in product or brand design
• OR equivalent experience.
• 5+ years designing brand systems, visual identity, creative production, and how design scales across marketing channels and organizational needs.
• 5+ years people management experience

Preferred

• A genuine curiosity about developers, software, AI, open source, and GitHub’s role in shaping the future of how the world builds.
• Strong stakeholder management instincts, including the ability to push back with diplomacy, protect creative quality, and keep teams focused.
• Experience partnering across marketing, product, events, communications, web, and executive teams.
• Proven ability to lead senior creative talent without micromanaging. Setting direction, sharpening ideas, and raising the bar while giving teams room to do their best work.
• Ability to balance creative ambition with business realities, timelines, resources, and operational constraints.