Senior Product Design Manager

About the role

Join GitLab as a Senior Product Design Manager in the Plan & Analytics stage. As a design leader, you will own the delivery of UX commitments, improve productivity, and be responsible for the user experience in the product. You will hire and manage a world-class team of designers, work closely with product management and engineering teams, and contribute to product direction conversations. This is an exciting opportunity to reimagine how teams collaborate and how AI can transform the software development lifecycle. Key missions: As a Senior Product Design Manager at GitLab, you will be responsible for leading the delivery of UX commitments, improving productivity, and ensuring a high-quality user experience in the product. You will also be tasked with hiring and developing a world-class team of designers, and proactively identifying strategic UX opportunities that span multiple product areas. Additionally, you will work closely with cross-functional teams to execute on the product roadmap and priorities. Profile: - Experience driving organizational change with cross-functional stakeholders, including Product Management and Engineering - You share our values, and work in accordance with those values - You possess leadership qualities needed to thrive at Gitlab - Solid visual awareness with understanding of basic design principles and accessibility - Experience managing a group of designers remotely, who work on complex products - Experience defining/executing on the high-level strategy (the why) and creating design deliverables (the how) based on research - Deep experience building AI experience for the software development lifecycle - Deep experience designing for large-scale enterprise platforms - Ability to use GitLab