Product Design Manager

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The User Experience (UX) Manager reports to the UX Director. 

• Identify improvements for UX design (e.g. look and feel, color, spacing, etc.)
• Hire a world class team of UX Designers
• Help UX Designers grow their skills and experience
• Conducts reviews on Design library and Design system additions
• Hold regular 1:1's with all members of their team
• Create a sense of psychological safety on your team
• Recommend UX technical and process improvements
• Draft quarterly UX OKRs
• Give clear, timely, and actionable feedback
• Improve scheduling process to balance necessary UX improvements
• Works with all parts of the organization (e.g. Backend, Frontend, Build, etc.) to improve overall UX
• Strong sense of ownership, urgency, and drive
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, especially experience with executive-level communications
• Ability to make concrete progress in the face of ambiguity and imperfect knowledge

• A minimum of 3 years directly managing UX designers and researchers
• Solid visual awareness with understanding of basic design principles like typography, layout, composition, and color theory
• Proficiency with pre-visualization software (e.g. Sketch, Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator)
• Experience defining the high-level strategy (the why) and creating design deliverables (the how) based on research.
• Passion for creating visually pleasing and intuitive user experiences.
• Collaborative team spirit with great communication skills
• You share our values, and work in accordance with those values.
• Leadership at GitLab

• Please view the compensation range for this role at the bottom of the position description.

• Dev
• Ops
• CI/CD
• Secure
• Enablement

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