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Location

Remote, United States

Overview

We’re looking for a senior design leader to redefine what a design system is in an agent-native world. GitHub is looking for a Senior Design Director, Design Systems to lead the evolution of our design system into an AI-compatible, agent-ready platform. This leader will be responsible for transforming Primer from a traditional component library into a system that enables both humans and AI agents to generate high-quality, accessible, and cohesive user experiences.

Responsibilities
- Defines and leads the evolution of Primer into an agent-native design system. A platform of primitives, patterns, and guardrails that enables both human and AI agents to generate high‑quality, accessible, and cohesive experiences.
- Drives efforts to eliminate redundancy and reduce accumulated complexity, developing an opinionated system that is easier to use, generate from, and maintain.
- Partners with Engineering to ensure the system integrates into developer workflows and that design intent translates cleanly into code.




- Advances the quality bar across GitHub experiences by building systems and guardrails in partnership with Design, Engineering, Product, and Marketing.
- Establishes and enforces standards for consistency, accessibility, and usability across both human‑ and AI-generated interfaces.
- Drives alignment and delivery across Design, Engineering, and Product to ensure the system meets real product needs and accelerates development.
- Defines and tracks success through adoption, efficiency, and quality metrics, ensuring measurable business impact.
- Leads and scales a multidisciplinary team of designers, accessibility experts and engineers, leveraging open headcount to build a high‑performing organization.
- Develops leaders and fosters a culture of craft, clarity, and execution.
- Proven ability to manage managers and build a strong leadership layer that drives team performance, growth, and accountability.

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