Our entire handbook is public. You can find the details of our vision & direction, check out how we structure our R&D teams, and understand how our UX team operates.

A brief overview:

You will work 1:1 with a Product Manager and be embedded in our Editor group as a Product Designer or Senior Product Designer at GitLab. The Editor team is responsible for our Web IDE, Wiki, and other highly visible, high traffic features within GitLab.

What you can expect in a Product Designer / Senior Product Designer, Editor role at GitLab:

• You’ll work alongside UX Researchers, Product Managers, other Product Designers, and Engineers to iterate on new features and user journeys related to the categories within the Editor group in GitLab.
• You’ll collaborate extensively with the Development team to understand the technical constraints imposed on your design proposals by Git and our prior architectural decisions.
• You’ll develop a UX vision for source code management and deliver upon this vision iteratively.
• You’ll utilize wireframes, prototypes, sketches, user flows, mockups, hi-fidelity visual designs, and any other artifacts you believe are necessary to convey your design thinking and ideas.
• 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 achieve their goals.
• You’ll partner with UX Researchers & PMs on problem validation studies to understand the problem space you’re operating within.
• You’ll leverage solution validation studies to validate your solutions and proposed directions.
• You’ll gather user needs through user interviews or contextual inquiries and will convert those into user requirements.
• Gain a deeper understanding of the Product Designer workflow by reading our handbook.

Projects you might work on in our Source Code group:

This blog post outlines the directon of the Web IDE which you’ll be directly contributing to: https://about.gitlab.com/blog/2022/05/23/the-future-of-the-gitlab-web-ide/.

You should apply if:

• You want to help shape the direction of the features within our Editor group and contribute to the designs that deliver on that vision.
• You love diving into complex problems and are not afraid to question existing structures.
• You understand frontend code or the limitations of frontend technology. You can demonstrate this through your hands-on coding skills with HTML/CSS/JS/Vue, your experience with Git, or by showing us you have a deep understanding of the needs of engineers you’ve worked with previously.
• You’re comfortable with Git and its command-line.
• You enjoy getting involved in discovery research and solution validation, and you continually look to improve your user research abilities.
• You’re able to showcase work that shows us your ability to create the deliverables required for this role. For example, JTBD, competitive evaluations, low fidelity wireframes, high fidelity mockups, prototypes, journey maps, storyboards, design vision, and so on.
• The idea of playing a part in the evolution of our Pajamas Design System is truly exciting 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.

What it’s like to work at GitLab:

The culture at GitLab is something we’re incredibly proud of. You’ll spend your time collaborating with kind, talented, and motivated colleagues from across the globe.

Some of the benefits you’ll be entitled to vary by the region or country you’re in. However, all GitLab team members are fully remote and receive a "no ask, must tell" paid-time-off policy, where we don’t count the number of days you take off annually.

You can work incredibly flexible hours, enabled by our asynchronous approach to communication. We’ll also help you set up your home office environment, pay for your membership to a co-working space and contribute to the travel costs associated with meeting other GitLab employees across the world. Also, every year or so, we’ll invite you to our Contribute event.

Our hiring process and compensation:

The hiring process for this Product Designer position typically follows five stages. The details of this process can be found at the bottom of our job family page. Our compensation calculator will be shared with candidates selected for a screening call.