Product Designer

• As a UX Architect embedded in the Organizations group, you’ll shape the structural experience of GitLab by defining foundational models, navigation systems, and an information architecture that scales across our entire platform.
• This pivotal initiative aims to simplify administration, enhance scalability, and improve the experience for large-scale organizations and their end users.
• In this role, you’ll define the conceptual models and frameworks that support GitLab’s expanding hierarchy, ensuring structural consistency and platform-wide scalability.
• You’ll play a key role in shaping the long-term vision for the Organizations experience, aligning system-level design with GitLab’s strategic goals.
• Your work will also support a migration strategy that ensures the transition is compelling and valuable as we iterate to reach the long-term vision.
• This is a highly visible and impactful role. You’ll work across a wide area to align teams on a common framework, support feature migration, and ensure a cohesive experience for both administrators and daily users.
• Success in this role will require excellent product understanding, systems thinking, and the ability to influence decisions at scale.
• By joining this team, you’ll play a critical role in shaping the future of GitLab while leaving a lasting mark on a product that impacts millions of users. This is also a chance to grow as a UX leader, helping define and evolve the UX Architect role at Gitlab while working alongside talented designers and cross-functional partners across the company.
• Define core interaction and information models for GitLab’s hierarchy and how users move between levels.
• Shape platform-wide navigation, context-switching rules, and contextual awareness.
• Develop inheritance models for settings, permissions, and data visibility.
• Contribute to strategies for migrating features into the new Organization layer.
• Lead architectural reviews across teams to identify inconsistencies and align on IA standards.
• Create guidelines, best practices, and governance processes that can guide future development and maintain long-term consistency.
• Partner with Product Designers to evolve practical patterns into reusable models.
• Serve as an advocate and partner for long-term UX strategy across multiple teams.
• Extends team collaboration and cross-functional alignment.
• About the team: At GitLab, UX Architects collaborate closely with product managers, engineers, UX researchers, technical writers, and other product designers to create cohesive, scalable, and systematic user experiences across the platform.
• Here are some links with extra information: UX Department team page; Pajamas design system.
• How GitLab will support you: Benefits to support your health, finances, and well-being; All remote, asynchronous work environment; Flexible Paid Time Off; Team Member Resource Groups; Equity Compensation & Employee Stock Purchase Plan; Growth and Development Fund; Parental leave; Home office support

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