GitLab

Senior UX Architect, Organizations

GitLab

full-time

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Origin:  • 🇺🇸 United States

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Salary

💰 $125,000 - $180,000 per year

Job Level

Senior

Tech Stack

SDLCSwitching

About the role

  • 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

Requirements

  • Extensive experience designing and evolving IA and interaction models for complex platforms.
  • A systems-thinking mindset and comfort working across multiple teams and scopes.
  • Strong ability to shape and communicate long-term architectural vision.
  • Familiarity with enterprise-scale products and multi-tenant models.
  • Confidence in navigating ambiguity and aligning cross-functional partners with the re.
  • A collaborative, documentation-first approach suited to GitLab’s asynchronous culture.