Job Description
GitLab is an open-core software company that develops the most comprehensive AI-powered DevSecOps Platform, used by more than 100,000 organizations. Our mission is to enable everyone to contribute to and co-create the software that powers our world. When everyone can contribute, consumers become contributors, significantly accelerating human progress. Our platform unites teams and organizations, breaking down barriers and redefining what’s possible in software development. Thanks to products like Duo Enterprise and Duo Agent Platform, customers get AI benefits at every stage of the SDLC.
The same principles built into our products are reflected in how our team works: we embrace AI as a core productivity multiplier, with all team members expected to incorporate AI into their daily workflows to drive efficiency, innovation, and impact. GitLab is where careers accelerate, innovation flourishes, and every voice is valued. Our high-performance culture is driven by our values and continuous knowledge exchange, enabling our team members to reach their full potential while collaborating with industry leaders to solve complex problems. Co-create the future with us as we build technology that transforms how the world develops software.
An overview of this role
As a Senior Product Designer on our Pipeline Security team, you’ll be at the forefront of transforming how organizations approach DevSecOps. You’ll design intuitive and innovative UI/UX solutions that empower teams to develop software securely and efficiently, where your expertise will directly contribute to reducing business risks without compromising developer velocity.
In this role, you’ll craft experiences that provide confidence in software development by increasing visibility into code change impacts in GitLab. Working across Secrets Management, you’ll create interfaces that enable AppSec professionals, DevOps engineers, and Developers to work more efficiently, with less friction, and greater impact. One of your key initiatives will be designing the new GitLab-native Secrets Manager experience!
Working within a small, nimble team, you’ll collaborate directly with researchers and feature teams across various security workflows. You’ll have the opportunity to think outside the box and propose bold solutions that could radically change how users interact with sensitive credentials and configuration data. Your designs will cater to mid and large enterprise customers, making complex security configurations easy to manage and maintain.
Secrets management is a key product investment area for GitLab, making this an exceptional opportunity to work on a part of the product with significant focus and visibility. If you’re passionate about creating impactful designs in the security space, have experience with enterprise products, and are eager to tackle complex challenges with creativity and expertise, we’d love to have you on board.
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What you’ll do
- Design a holistic approach for Pipeline Security that empowers teams to manage secrets efficiently, with a focus on creating the new GitLab-native Secrets Manager experience.
- Collaborate with your triad team of Product Manager and Engineering Manager to define product goals, roadmap, and strategy that solve real user problems.
- Communicate your vision designs and ideas through deliverables such as: wireframes, prototypes, user flows, mockups, and high-fidelity visual designs, etc.
- Help develop hypotheses and establish clear success metrics to test new features and determine their impact on both user experience and business outcomes.
- Engage with our user base and the wider GitLab community to understand their underserved needs, working toward long-term solutions that enable them to successfully achieve their goals.
- Undertake usability testing to validate your thinking, with support from our excellent UX Research team.
- Contribute to our Design System, alongside the rest of the UX team and the GitLab community as a whole.
What you’ll bring
- Demonstrated experience designing enterprise-grade software that serves mid to large organizations while remaining easy to use and maintain.
- Experience creating and implementing UX design for developer and security personas, ideally within DevSecOps or security-focused workflows.
- Familiarity with designing holistic, complete workflows, and larger design visions or North Star Vision Designs.
- Strong experience following a user-centered design approach, with the ability to balance leveraging the design system and recognizing when unique components are needed.
- Experience fostering collaboration across multiple product teams and stakeholders.
- Ability to conduct your own research using various methods, with good judgment about when to engage UX researchers.
- Comfortable working in a git workflow.
About the team
Product Designers are highly collaborative roles at GitLab – you’re part of the Product Design org, you report into a Product Design Manager, but work to embed yourself into the feature team that you’re working on. You will become an expert in this area, and eventually the broader GitLab product.
Secrets Management: This category is a key product investment area for GitLab. The team’s current focus is to deliver a GitLab-first functionality that can connect to 3rd party application secrets so that teams can safely deploy software. This year’s focus is to provide advanced security and compliance within GitLab. Next to that, we’re working to: Improve the user experience for CI variables settings; Prototype a native secrets manager to better understand how our customers are using secrets to secure workflows; Validate technical and user constraints to the GitLab-native secrets manager experience.
How GitLab will support you
Please note that we welcome interest from candidates with varying levels of experience; many successful candidates do not meet every single requirement. Additionally, studies have shown that people from underrepresented groups are less likely to apply to a job unless they meet every single qualification. If you’re excited about this role, please apply and allow our recruiters to assess your application.
The base salary range for this role’s listed level is currently for residents of listed locations only. Grade level and salary ranges are determined through interviews and a review of education, experience, knowledge, skills, abilities of the applicant, equity with other team members, and alignment with market data. See more information on our benefits and equity. Sales roles are also eligible for incentive pay targeted at up to 100% of the offered base salary.
California/Colorado/Hawaii/New Jersey/New York/Washington/DC/Illinois/Minnesota pay range
$125,000 – $185,000 USD
