Staff Product Designer

Role Overview

As a Staff Product Designer at GitLab, you will lead design for cross-cutting platform experiences that affect every user workflow. You’ll work closely with Product Management, Engineering, and fellow designers to drive the end-to-end design process, grounded in research and high-quality craft.

Key Missions

• Own end-to-end product design for complex, cross-cutting features and workflows.
• Coordinate across multiple groups to align on platform-level experiences with Product Managers and Engineering Managers.
• Contribute to the Pajamas Design System by:
  • identifying reusable patterns,
  • proposing new components,
  • ensuring designs adhere to system standards.

Responsibilities

• Elevate design craft and quality across cross-functional work.
• Mentor and support other designers; help raise team standards.
• Ground decisions in research to support user needs.

Requirements

• Ability to lead design on complex, ambiguous projects with significant cross-functional collaboration.
• Strong portfolio demonstrating end-to-end product design (problem framing → shipped solutions).
• Proficiency with Figma and prototyping tools.
• Experience collaborating closely with Product Management and Engineering.
• Systems thinking and experience contributing to (or working with) design systems.
• Experience working in remote, distributed teams.
• Proven mentoring experience to elevate team craft.
• Excellent communication skills (present work, articulate rationale, facilitate alignment).

Nice to Have

• Familiarity with developer tools, DevSecOps, or technical B2B products.

Flexibility on Level

GitLab welcomes applicants with varying experience levels; candidates may not meet every requirement.