Creative Director, Brand Studio

Locations

Remote, United States

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

This team creates the visual identity and creative systems behind Git Hub’s most important marketing moments, from global events and product launches to executive presentations, social content, blog storytelling, motion, illustration, and beyond. The work is highly visible, deeply cross‑functional, and central to how developers, customers, and Hubbers experience the Git Hub brand.

We’re looking for a creative leader who can guide a world‑class team without over‑directing it. Someone who understands how to translate executive priorities, brand strategy, product narratives, and business needs into clear creative direction. The ideal candidate will protect focus, raise the bar, and help the team do its best work, not by getting into every pixel, but by creating the conditions for great creative to happen.

This role reports to the VP of Global Brand & Marketing and will lead a tight‑knit, high‑functioning team of brand designers, motion designers, illustrators, and presentation designers.

What success looks like:
The right Creative Director will help Git Hub’s Brand Studio continue to operate at a world‑class level while giving the team sharper focus, stronger connective tissue, and clearer creative direction.

They will not be expected to reinvent a high‑functioning team from scratch. Instead, they will help the studio scale its impact: interpreting the needs of the business, protecting the craft, strengthening the brand system, and ensuring Git Hub’s creative work feels unmistakably Git Hub—whether it appears on a keynote stage, in a campaign, on social, in a product launch, or inside a deck for our most senior leaders.

• Lead Git Hub’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 Git Hub 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 Git Hub 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 Git Hub’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.

• 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,…