Senior Product Designer, Pipeline Security

An overview of this role

As a Senior Product Designer on our Pipeline Security team, you'll be at the forefront of transforming how organizations approach DevSecOps. You'll design intuitive and innovative UI/UX solutions that empower teams to develop software securely and efficiently, where your expertise will directly contribute to reducing business risks without compromising developer velocity.

In this role, you'll craft experiences that provide confidence in software development by increasing visibility into code change impacts in GitLab. Working across both Secrets Management and Build Artifacts categories, you'll create interfaces that enable AppSec professionals, DevOps engineers, and Developers to work more efficiently, with less friction, and greater impact. One of your key initiatives will be designing the new GitLab-native Secrets Manager experience!

Working within a small, nimble team, you'll collaborate directly with researchers and feature teams across various security workflows. You'll have the opportunity to think outside the box and propose bold solutions that could radically change how users interact with sensitive credentials and configuration data. Your designs will cater to mid and large enterprise customers, making complex security configurations easy to manage and maintain.

Secrets management is a key product investment area for GitLab, making this an exceptional opportunity to work on a part of the product with significant focus and visibility. If you're passionate about creating impactful designs in the security space, have experience with enterprise products, and are eager to tackle complex challenges with creativity and expertise, we'd love to have you on board.

Here are some pages with more info:

• Product Design department page
• Our design principles
• Pipeline Security Group page
• Secrets Management roadmap
• Build Artifacts roadmap

What you'll do

• Design a holistic approach for Pipeline Security that empowers teams to manage secrets and build artifacts efficiently, with a focus on creating the new GitLab-native Secrets Manager experience.
• Collaborate with your triad team of Product Manager and Engineering Manager to define product goals, roadmap, and strategy that solve real user problems.
• Communicate your vision designs and ideas through deliverables such as: wireframes, prototypes, user flows, mockups, and high-fidelity visual designs, etc.
• Help develop hypotheses and establish clear success metrics to test new features and determine their impact on both user experience and business outcomes.
• Engage with our user base and the wider GitLab community to understand their underserved needs, working toward long-term solutions that enable them to successfully achieve their goals.
• Undertake usability testing to validate your thinking, with support from our excellent UX Research team.
• Contribute to our Design System, alongside the rest of the UX team and the GitLab community as a whole.

What you'll bring

• Demonstrated experience designing enterprise-grade software that serves mid to large organizations while remaining easy to use and maintain.
• Experience creating and implementing UX design for developer and security personas, ideally within DevSecOps or security-focused workflows.
• Familiarity with designing holistic, complete workflows, and larger design visions or North Star Vision Designs.
• Strong experience following a user-centered design approach, with the ability to balance leveraging the design system and recognizing when unique components are needed.
• Experience fostering collaboration across multiple product teams and stakeholders.
• Ability to conduct your own research using various methods, with good judgment about when to engage UX researchers.
• Comfortable working in a git workflow.

About the team

Product Designers are highly collaborative roles at GitLab - you're part of the Product Design org, you report into a Product Design Manager, but work to embed yourself into the feature team that you're working on. You will become an expert in this area, and eventually the broader GitLab product.

Secrets Management: This category is a key product investment area for GitLab. The team’s current focus is to deliver a GitLab-first functionality that can connect to 3rd party application secrets so that teams can safely deploy software. This year’s focus is to provide advanced security and compliance within GitLab. Next to that, we’re working to: Improve the user experience for CI variables settings; Prototype a native secrets manager to better understand how our customers are using secrets to secure workflows; Validate technical and user constraints to the GitLab-native secrets manager experience.

Build Artifacts: This category covers the experiences related to the display of artifact data. The team plans to release UI functionality allowing the bulk delete of build artifacts through the Artifacts page. There are no additional planned features for Build Artifacts in FY24 (2023-02 to 2024-01).

How GitLab will support you

• Benefits to support your health, finances, and well-being
• All remote, asynchronous work environment
• Flexible Paid Time Off
• Team Member Resource Groups
• Equity Compensation & Employee Stock Purchase Plan
• Growth and development budget
• Parental leave
• Home office support

Please note that we welcome interest from candidates with varying levels of experience; many successful candidates do not meet every single requirement. Additionally, studies have shown that people from underrepresented groups are less likely to apply to a job unless they meet every single qualification. If you're excited about this role, please apply and allow our recruiters to assess your application.