We are looking for a Senior Motion Designer to join the Brand and Marketing Design team. 

In this role, you will be responsible for leading animation and motion design projects, setting the gold standard of design execution, and transforming our visual identity into effective and engaging expressions. 

You’ll be working as a senior-level individual contributor, creating world-class motion designs while mentoring other designers on the team and influencing the motion design direction as a whole. 

You understand that the best designs require more than just animation skills; you’re willing to jump into storyboarding and collaborating closely with various team members. 

Collaboration is key to GitHub’s success, and you will work closely with other designers, project managers, engineers, and marketing and product team stakeholders to propose motion design solutions and ensure a successful outcome.

What we’re looking for

Designers at GitHub are expert individual contributors; they are given a lot of autonomy and trust to work on our most impactful projects. 

For this specific role, we're looking for someone who values the following:

• Systems thinking: Our team has to apply decisions holistically, ensuring new patterns fit into the larger system of the brand, design system, and product, while supporting experiences for individual features.
• Inclusive design: GitHub is a home for all developers and our brand should reflect that. This means including and learning from people with a wide range of perspectives. Designing for inclusivity first can lead us to solve problems for the many and open up our product for more people.
• Creating together: Getting to the right result is our focus. This can come from illustrators, designers, or site engineers — and ideally everyone. Facilitating collaboration between teams and individuals is key to continuity across all touchpoints, consistency within our design system and a clear vision and perspective that resonates with the needs of our customers.
• Progress and impact: Our team often works on the meta and so it's easy to get caught up in the design details. We have to be mindful of this and ensure we keep making decisions and moving forward. This means being solutions-oriented and prioritizing progress over correctness when it's the right call, but never sacrificing quality. 
• Candidness: We encourage candidness and recognize its role in building trust between managers and reports and with peers and leadership. It can take time and effort to get there, but it's worth it. Making decisions for projects, design patterns, and processes will yield better results when we can get to the “real talk”.

Responsibilities

Define and Plan:

• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to understand the business need and translate goals into effective motion designs.
• Identify, advocate for, and own design-driven projects and initiatives that have cross-team impact.

Collaboration:

• Partner with Art Directors to establish and help shape a vision for the future of GitHub’s brand and visual strategy.
• Partner closely with the Director of Brand Studio to inform and influence team processes, best practices and improvements that support company objectives.
• Actively mentor fellow designers, helping them grow their skills and design toolkit.

Storytelling:

• Produce storyboards and animatics to present concepts to stakeholders and gather feedback to improve your designs.
• Collaborate alongside product designers to ensure the product is accurately and compellingly represented in designs.

Design Quality:

• Provide regular, direct, and impactful feedback in design and motion reviews with your teammates to ensure high-quality execution and continuously up-level the team’s design output.

Design Systems:

• Use, contribute to, and evolve GitHub's design system and brand guidelines to ensure consistency across all brand touchpoints.

Qualifications

Required Qualifications

• 7+ years experience in product or service design
• OR Bachelor's Degree in Industrial Design, Product Design, Human Computer Interaction, or related field AND 5+ years experience in product or service design
• OR Master's Degree in Industrial Design, Product Design, Human Computer Interaction, or related field AND 3+ years experience in product or service design
• OR Doctorate in Industrial Design, Product Design, Human Computer Interaction, or related field AND 1+ year(s) experience in product or service design
• OR equivalent experience.
• 2+ years experience leading motion design projects and coordinating with cross-functional teams.
• 5+ years experience shipping end-to-end integrated marketing campaigns with a strong emphasis on motion design across several digital surfaces.
• 2+ years of experience with 3D motion design

Preferred Qualifications

• Strong visual design skills, including an eye for animation principles, timing, composition, and use of color.
• Portfolio showcasing a strong body of motion design work that tells a compelling and consistent story about a product, business, or initiative.
• Experience scaling brand and web resources through effective motion design systems.
• Familiarity with modern animation tools and software such as After Effects, Cinema 4D, Blender or similar.
• Experience with Git and GitHub workflows.

Compensation Range

The base salary range for this job is USD $104,400.00 - USD $276,900.00 /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

• Customer-obsessed
• Ship to learn
• Growth mindset
• Own the outcome
• Better together
• Diverse and inclusive

Manager fundamentals

• Model
• Coach
• Care

Leadership principles

• Create clarity
• Generate energy
• Deliver success

Who We Are

GitHub is the world’s leading AI-powered developer platform with 100 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!