Creative Director, Brand Studio

About the role

GitHub is looking for a Creative Director to lead our Brand Studio, a world-class creative design team responsible for shaping how GitHub shows up in the world.

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.
• Work closely with the Brand Experience (site) team to ensure the brand is clear, cohesive, and compelling across all web and product surfaces.

Qualifications

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

Compensation Range

The base salary range for this job is USD $140,400.00 - USD $372,300.00 /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.

Benefits

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.