This Product Designer or Senior Product Designer position for our Manage: Import Group is 100% remote. Please visit our Country Hiring Guidelines page to see where we can hire.

A Brief Overview

GitLab is building an open-source, single application for the entire software development lifecycle —from project planning and source code management to CI/CD, monitoring, and security.

It’s an exciting time to join our team. We're one of the world’s largest all-remote companies, and we've been intentionally building our culture this way from the start. With more than 1,200 team members in 65+ countries, GitLab is a place where you can contribute from almost anywhere. We are an ambitious, productive team that embraces a set of shared values in everything we do.

Our Import team helps organizations adopt GitLab. You'll aim to remove the friction for customers who are migrating to GitLab by designing solutions to import artifacts such as code, build pipelines, issues, and epics from other tools into our product.

What You'll Need To Succeed In This Role

• Product knowledge: Deeply understand the technology and features of the Import product area. This means you'll need to understand how APIs impact design.
• UX Research : Conduct solution validation with the guidance of your Product Design Manager and incorporate insights into design decisions to fulfill user and business needs.
• Deliverables: Create deliverables for your product area (for example: competitive analyses, user flows, low fidelity wireframes, high fidelity mockups, prototypes, etc.) that solve real user problems through the user experience.
• Communication: Communicate the results of UX activities within your product area to the UX department, cross-functional partners within your product area, and other interested GitLab team members using clear language that simplifies complexity.
• Usability: Proactively identify both small and large usability issues within your product area.
• Iteration: Practice design iteration and take part in the monthly release process by breaking down the designs to fit release cadence, reviewing and approving merge requests submitted by developers
• Design system: Keep design components available and up to date in prototyping tools, ensuring that reusable components fit visually and functionally together, actively contribute to the Pajamas Design System .
• Design reviews: Participate in Design Reviews, giving and appropriately receiving feedback.
• UX debt: Understand UX debt and make recommendations for its resolution with the help of other Product Designers or your Product Design Manager.

You should apply if:

• You understand the developer workflow and you bring at least a couple of years of experience designing developer tools, enterprise software, or complex web applications.
• You understand how APIs impact design.
• You bring some experience with Git and its command line or other version control tools, developer tooling, frontend code, or data/tool migration knowledge.
• Our values of collaboration, results, efficiency, diversity, iteration, and transparency resonate with you.
• You enjoy getting involved in research and usability testing, and you continually look to improve your user research abilities.
• You want to design for a complex product with technical users who have continually evolving needs.
• You are self-motivated and self-managing, with strong organizational skills.
• You're able to demonstrate your product design skills across user research, UX strategy, wireframing, prototyping, product strategy, interaction design, and UI design during our Hiring Process .
• The idea of playing a key part in the evolution of our Pajamas Design System is truly exciting to you.

You'll stand out if:

• You bring significant industry experience.
• Experience designing for data or tool migration experiences.
• You have a passion for open source tools or experience with GitLab.
• You have experience working with a remote team.