Product Designer

What you'll do

• You'll define the product goals, roadmap, and strategy, all to solve user problems.
• You’ll work alongside UX Researchers, Product Managers, and Engineers to iterate on new features within the GitLab product.
• You’ll communicate your design thinking and ideas through wireframes, prototypes, user flows, mockups, and high-fidelity visual designs.
• You’ll engage with our user base and the wider GitLab community to understand their pain points and work toward long-term fixes that enable them to succeed with their goals.
• You’ll undertake usability testing to validate your thinking. (We’ve got an excellent team of UX Researchers who can offer guidance, as needed.)
• You’ll contribute to our Design System, alongside the rest of the UX team and the GitLab community as a whole.

What you'll bring

• Strong experience designing developer tools, enterprise software or complex B2B web applications.
• Strong experience following a user-centered or human-centered design approach, in conjunction with design thinking.
• Experience independently planning and running UX research, including discovery, usability testing, etc.
• Demonstrated experience working iteratively in close collaboration with the engineering and product teams.
• Comfortable writing basic HTML/CSS and/or Javascript
• Knowledge of Git is extremely beneficial

About the team

We support the business of GitLab by becoming experts in our stage group, educating ourselves about the entire product, and staying engaged with user and business goals. We partner closely with our stable counterparts in Product Management and Development. As Product Designers, we are the owners of design judgment. We start with a problem to solve and always first consider the best experience for the user.