Product Design Manager
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Posted on 12/7/2022
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GitLab

1,001-5,000 employees

Repository hosting manager tool
Company Overview
It is GitLab's mission to make it so that everyone can contribute. When everyone can contribute, users become contributors and greatly increases the rate of innovation.

Company Stage

N/A

Total Funding

$1.4B

Founded

2014

Headquarters

San Francisco, California

Growth & Insights
Headcount

6 month growth

7%

1 year growth

8%

2 year growth

32%
Locations
Remote • Dewey, OK, USA
Experience Level
Entry
Junior
Mid
Senior
Expert
Desired Skills
UI/UX Design
Git
Figma
Product Design
Requirements
  • You've got, at minimum, a few years of experience managing Product or UX design teams of 3+ direct reports. Alternatively, you're able to demonstrate leadership skills and experiences impacting design quality across multiple teams
  • You've got hands-on experience with developer tools - either as a user or a designer/design leader. You understand how developers work in different environments (UI, IDE, CLI, etc...) and your experience will enable you to develop strong opinions on what users need
  • Your knowledge, vision, and experience will enable you to play a key role in shaping the next evolution of developer tooling
  • You enjoy advocating for user research and usability testing, and you continually look to improve your team's user research and usability testing abilities
  • You want to manage a team that is designing a complex product with cross-functional users and continually evolving needs
  • You understand frontend code, Git, and the limitations of frontend technology. You are comfortable with Git-based workflows and bring experience with the command-line
  • You're comfortable with design reviews and occasionally being hands-on with design tools such as Figma
  • Mentoring, leading, and growing your team is truly motivating to you
  • Our values of collaboration, results, efficiency, diversity, iteration, and transparency resonate with you
  • You'll thrive in an environment where self-learning and self-service are encouraged and instilled as a part of our culture
Responsibilities
  • As a Product Design Manager at GitLab, you will be responsible for managing a team of 6 Product Designers
  • These Product Designers are embedded in groups working on some of our most visible, high-traffic, impactful areas such as code review, source code management, and remote development