Product Designer Intern

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

At GitHub, we believe building for everyone starts with designing for everyone. As a Product Designer Intern, you’ll work on creating experiences that enable developers of all backgrounds, abilities, and identities to do their best work.

From contributing to our design system to shaping inclusive workflows, you’ll bring empathy, creativity, and curiosity to every problem. You’ll collaborate with designers, researchers, product managers, and engineers to build thoughtful, equitable, and innovative solutions. You’ll also explore how inclusive design principles can be applied to emerging technologies, like AI-enhanced developer tools, to ensure they work for everyone.

This internship is more than a chance to learn accessibility standards, it’s a unique opportunity to influence one of the most widely used developer platforms in the world. With guidance from experienced design mentors, you’ll see how inclusive principles come to life in real products. And of course: use GitHub to build GitHub.

This is a remote summer internship for 12 consecutive weeks with start dates between May- June 2026.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with designers, researchers, engineers, and product partners to design experiences that work for a wide variety of users.
• Design and iterate on inclusive user flows, components, and UI patterns.
• Annotate accessibility specs and intent of designs in Figma.
• Help evolve our inclusive design practices, including contributions to accessibility reviews, usability testing, and inclusive research.
• Contribute to documentation and design guidance related to inclusivity and accessibility.
• Learn and apply WCAG accessibility standards, but go beyond compliance to advocate for human-centered design decisions.

Qualifications

Required Qualifications:

• Currently pursuing a Bachelor’s degree in Product Design, Human-Computer Interaction, Accessibility Studies, or a related field, with at least one term remaining post-internship.
• A portfolio demonstrating thoughtful design work with an eye toward inclusion and accessibility.
• Experience with designing equitable experiences that consider diverse user needs and contexts through internships, academic projects, research, or equivalent work.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience using design tools such as Figma and the ability to document accessibility specifications and annotations.
• Curiosity about emerging technologies such as AI, and how they impact inclusive and accessible design.
• Familiarity with accessibility and inclusive design frameworks (e.g., WCAG, POUR principles, or Microsoft Inclusive Design toolkit).
• Basic knowledge of HTML/CSS or design systems.
• Strong written communication skills.

Compensation Range

The base salary range for this job is USD $33.17 - USD $87.93 /Hr.

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 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!