[Hiring] Senior Product Designer @GitLab

Role Description

As a Senior Product Designer for Security, Policies, you'll own the design of policy configuration and compliance workflows that help organizations enforce security standards, meet regulatory requirements, and govern the SDLC. This role focuses on translating complex governance requirements into intuitive, scalable, usable experiences for AppSec professionals, Compliance managers, and Developers.

• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.

Qualifications

• 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

Benefits

• Flexible Paid Time Off
• Team Member Resource Groups
• Equity Compensation & Employee Stock Purchase Plan
• Growth and Development Fund
• Parental leave
• Home office support

Company Description

GitLab is 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.