Staff Product Designer, Knowledge Graph

GitLab is the intelligent orchestration platform for DevSecOps, enabling organizations to enhance developer productivity and accelerate digital transformation. As a Staff Product Designer, you will lead design efforts for cross-cutting platform experiences, collaborating closely with Product Management and Engineering to translate ambiguity into clear design direction and improve user experiences for developers and DevSecOps teams.

Responsibilities:

• Lead design on platform experience – Drive the end-to-end design process for cross-cutting features and workflows that impact users across the product. Define both tactical deliverables that solve immediate user problems and strategic outputs that connect to longer-term platform vision
• Partner cross-functionally – Coordinate across multiple groups to align on platform-level experiences. Work closely with Product Managers and Engineering Managers to shape priorities, scope MVCs, and ensure design intent is maintained through development
• Elevate craft and quality – Demonstrate excellence in interaction design, visual design, and systems thinking. Raise the quality bar through thoughtful feedback in design reviews and by modeling 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
• Mentor and support others – Coach Product Designers and Senior Product Designers through pairing, design critiques, and knowledge sharing. Help onboard new team members and contribute to a collective team culture
• 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

Requirements:

• Demonstrated ability to lead design on complex, ambiguous projects that require significant cross-functional collaboration
• Strong portfolio showing end-to-end product design work, from problem framing through shipped solutions
• Experience mentoring designers and elevating team craft
• Proficiency with Figma and prototyping tools
• Excellent communication skills–ability to present work, articulate rationale, and facilitate alignment
• Experience collaborating closely with Product Management and Engineering
• Systems thinking and experience contributing to or working with design systems
• Familiarity with developer tools, DevSecOps, or technical B2B products
• Experience working in remote, distributed teams