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GitLab · 19 hours ago

Product Design Manager, Platforms & Plan

United States

Full-time

Remote

Senior Level

$150K/yr - $240K/yr

GitLab is an open-core software company that develops a comprehensive AI-powered DevSecOps Platform. They are seeking a Product Design Manager to lead UX initiatives and manage a team of designers, focusing on improving user experience and productivity for their Platforms & Plan stage.

Cloud SecurityDeveloper ToolsDevOpsOpen SourceSaaS

Comp. & Benefits

Responsibilities

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

Qualification

Managing designers remotelyDesigning for enterprise platformsDefining high-level strategyDriving organizational changeVisual design principlesUsing GitLabLeadership qualities

Required

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

Company

GitLab

Glassdoor4.0

GitLab is a web-based Git repository manager that offers a variety of features for software development teams.

Founded in 2014

San Francisco, California, USA

1001-5000 employees

http://about.gitlab.com

Funding

Current Stage

Public Company

Total Funding

$413.5M

Key Investors

Goldman Sachs,ICONIQ GrowthICONIQ GrowthGoogle Ventures

2021-10-14IPO

2019-09-17Series E· $268M

2018-09-19Series D· $100M

Leadership Team

Bill Staples

Chief Executive Officer

Sytse Sijbrandij

Co-founder and Executive Chair

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