Product Design Manager, Platforms & Plan

GitLab is the intelligent orchestration platform for DevSecOps, enabling organizations to increase developer productivity and accelerate digital transformation. The Product Design Manager will lead UX initiatives, manage a team of designers, and collaborate closely with Product Management and Engineering teams to enhance user experience and drive product strategy.

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

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