Staff Product Designer, Knowledge Graph
GitLab
full-time
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Location Type: Remote
Location: Canada
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Salary
💰 $160,000 - $250,000 per year
Job Level
About the role
- Lead design on platform experience – Drive the end-to-end design process for cross-cutting features and workflows that impact users across the product. Define both tactical deliverables that solve immediate user problems and strategic outputs that connect to longer-term platform vision.
- Partner cross-functionally – Coordinate across multiple groups to align on platform-level experiences. Work closely with Product Managers and Engineering Managers to shape priorities, scope MVCs, and ensure design intent is maintained through development.
- Elevate craft and quality – Demonstrate excellence in interaction design, visual design, and systems thinking. Raise the quality bar through thoughtful feedback in design reviews and by modeling high standards in your own work.
- Contribute to the design system – Actively contribute to Pajamas by identifying reusable patterns, proposing new components, and ensuring your group’s work extends and adheres to system standards.
- Mentor and support others – Coach Product Designers and Senior Product Designers through pairing, design critiques, and knowledge sharing. Help onboard new team members and contribute to a collective team culture.
- Ground work in research – Conduct usability studies, competitor evaluations, and formative research. Collaborate with UX Research on problem validation and incorporate insights to fulfill user and business needs.
Requirements
- Demonstrated ability to lead design on complex, ambiguous projects that require significant cross-functional collaboration
- Strong portfolio showing end-to-end product design work, from problem framing through shipped solutions
- Experience mentoring designers and elevating team craft
- Proficiency with Figma and prototyping tools
- Excellent communication skills–ability to present work, articulate rationale, and facilitate alignment
- Experience collaborating closely with Product Management and Engineering
- Systems thinking and experience contributing to or working with design systems
- Familiarity with developer tools, DevSecOps, or technical B2B products is a plus
- Experience working in remote, distributed teams
Benefits
- Benefits to support your health, finances, and well-being
- Flexible Paid Time Off
- Team Member Resource Groups
- Equity Compensation & Employee Stock Purchase Plan
- Growth and Development Fund
- Parental leave
- Home office support
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
Tip: use these terms in your resume and cover letter to boost ATS matches.
Hard skills
interaction designvisual designsystems thinkingend-to-end product designusability studiescompetitor evaluationsprototyping
Soft skills
leadershipmentoringcommunicationcollaborationfeedbackknowledge sharing