GitLab

Product Design Manager – Platforms, Plan

GitLab

full-time

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Location Type: Remote

Location: United States

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Salary

💰 $150,000 - $240,000 per year

About the role

  • Proactively identify large, strategic UX opportunities that span both inside your areas and across the product. Work with other product design managers, staff, and principal product designers to drive cross-product initiatives through awareness and prioritization.
  • Identify strategic user research initiatives that span multiple stage groups (and possibly the entire product), and work with other product design/research managers to organize research efforts.
  • Be a frequent and active participant in milestones by reviewing UX deliverables (such as research and designs) that your team creates, and provide feedback to ensure high-quality output.
  • Communicate the value of UX to cross-functional GitLab team members and work with them to leverage the product development flow.
  • Help the product teams of areas you support to prioritize UX initiatives including Deferred UX, triage and resolution of UX bugs, and overall usability improvements to the product. Lead UX Scorecard initiatives in order to consistently measure the experience of your product areas and show improvements over time.
  • Contribute to product direction conversations, with emphasis on leading the experience vision for your product areas.
  • Hire, grow and retain a world-class team of Designers.

Requirements

  • Experience managing a group of designers remotely, who work on complex products.
  • Deep experience designing for large-scale enterprise platforms.
  • Experience defining/executing on the high-level strategy (the why) and creating design deliverables (the how) based on research.
  • Experience driving organizational change with cross-functional stakeholders, including Product Management and Engineering.
  • Solid visual awareness with understanding of basic design principles and accessibility.
  • You share our values, and work in accordance with those values.
  • You possess leadership qualities needed to thrive at Gitlab.
  • Ability to use GitLab.
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 & Tools
UX designuser researchdesign deliverablesaccessibilityvisual design principlesstrategic UX initiativesusability improvementsorganizational changecross-functional collaborationproduct direction
Soft Skills
leadershipcommunicationteam managementstrategic thinkingfeedback provisionprioritizationcollaborationproblem-solvingadaptabilityvalues alignment