Senior Product Designer, Policies

GitLab is the intelligent orchestration platform for DevSecOps, seeking a Senior Product Designer to lead design for security policies and compliance workflows. The role focuses on creating intuitive and scalable user experiences that help organizations enforce security standards and meet regulatory requirements, collaborating closely with product and engineering teams.

Responsibilities:

• Own design for security policy and compliance experiences – Lead end-to-end design for policy configuration, compliance reporting, and SDLC governance. Deliver usable solutions that solve immediate user problems while maintaining quality and consistency
• Translate technical complexity into clear experiences – Partner with security experts to understand policy configuration, compliance frameworks, and enforcement logic, then design experiences that make complex governance accessible for different user types—from AppSec professionals configuring detailed rules to developers understanding what's blocking their work
• Partner cross-functionally – Collaborate with Product Managers, Engineering Managers, and teams across multiple security product groups to shape priorities, scope MVCs, and ensure design quality and intent is maintained through development and implementation. Build strong relationships with counterparts and adjacent teams (vulnerability management, scanners, CI/CD) to align on cohesive experiences and ensure policy experiences connect appropriately
• Deliver high craft quality – Demonstrate strong interaction design, visual design, and attention to detail. Participate in design reviews, give constructive feedback, and maintain high standards in your own work
• Contribute to the design system – Actively contribute to Pajamas by identifying reusable patterns, proposing new components, and ensuring your group's work extends and adheres to system standards. Balance leveraging existing system components with recognizing when unique solutions are needed
• Ground work in research – Conduct usability studies, competitor evaluations, and formative research. Collaborate with UX Research on problem validation and incorporate insights to fulfill user and business needs. Engage with users and the wider GitLab community to understand their needs and work toward long-term solutions
• Communicate designs clearly – Create wireframes, prototypes, user flows, and high-fidelity designs that clearly communicate your vision. Present your work to stakeholders, articulate your rationale, and build alignment on solutions. Document decisions so others can understand your thinking and exemplify effective asynchronous communication
• Practice effective iteration – Break down designs to fit the release cadence. Review merge requests with user-facing changes. Advocate for and guide others in adopting effective iteration practices within your group. Mitigate the risk for deferred UX with MVCs and help prioritize usability issues

Requirements:

• Demonstrated experience designing enterprise-grade security, compliance, or DevSecOps products
• Strong portfolio showing end-to-end product design work, from problem framing through shipped solutions
• Experience designing holistic workflows and translating complex technical concepts into clear, user-centered experiences
• Excellent collaboration skills and experience fostering partnerships across multiple product teams and stakeholders
• Systems thinking and experience contributing to or working with design systems
• Experience conducting research and making strategic decisions about when and how to validate design decisions
• Strong visual design skills with the ability to balance system consistency with custom solutions
• Experience working in remote, distributed teams
• Proficiency with Figma and prototyping tools