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An overview of this role
As a Product Designer in GitLab's Package & Registry group, you'll create intuitive experiences that help developers manage their packages and container images more efficiently. You'll solve complex technical challenges while ensuring GitLab remains at the forefront of DevSecOps tooling. Your work will directly impact how thousands of companies worldwide handle their software supply chain and dependencies, helping developers ship secure code faster and with greater confidence.
You'll join an established team where you'll work closely with Product Managers, Engineers, and UX Researchers. Success in this role means balancing technical complexity with user simplicity, designing solutions that work for both beginner and advanced GitLab users. You'll report to the Product Design Manager while working as an embedded designer with your Package & Registry teammates.
What you’ll do
- Craft thoughtful, user-centered solutions for critical features—from wireframes and user flows to prototypes and high-fidelity designs—that address real user needs while advancing GitLab's business objectives
- Collaborate strategically with Product Management by following the Product Designer Workflow to identify opportunities, define problems, and establish design goals, while working closely with Engineering to ensure successful implementation
- Drive user research initiatives alongside UX Researchers and Product Managers to develop deep understanding of developer workflows, collecting and incorporating valuable user feedback to continuously refine experiences
- Enhance and contribute to GitLab's Pajamas design system and UX library, ensuring consistent user experiences
- Create clear documentation of design decisions and processes to facilitate knowledge sharing and design rationale
- Maintain expertise in DevOps trends, package management innovations, and container technologies to inform forward-thinking design solutions
What you’ll bring
- Portfolio showcasing exceptional UX/UI skills and systematic thinking approach
- Experience designing complex technical products (experience with DevOps tools or regulated industries is a plus)
- Proficiency with modern design tools like Figma or Sketch
- Strong foundation in user-centered design methodologies and research practices
- Ability to create effective information architecture, user flows, wireframes, and prototypes
- Skill in translating user insights into actionable, elegant design solutions
- Understanding of web accessibility standards (HTML/CSS knowledge is beneficial)
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Self-motivation and effective time management in a remote environment
- Comfort with autonomy and initiative in distributed teams
- Collaborative mindset with openness to feedback (open source contribution experience welcomed)
About the team
The Package & Registry team creates and maintains the components that make GitLab a comprehensive solution for storing and managing packages and container images. We focus on container registries, package registries, and dependency management to provide users with a seamless experience in managing their software supply chain.
Our team is currently tackling exciting challenges in the FY26 Continuous Integration roadmap. We're designing virtual registries that allow developers to pull from multiple sources, creating immutable tags for container security, and building dependency firewalls to protect users from vulnerabilities. These features require us to balance complex technical requirements with intuitive user experiences, making this an ideal role for designers who enjoy technical challenges.
What makes our team special is our efficient, autonomous approach. We expect designers to act as experts and advocates for GitLab users of all knowledge levels. You'll have significant influence over how millions of developers worldwide manage their software dependencies and delivery pipelines.
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.
The base salary range for this role’s listed level is currently for residents of listed locations only. Grade level and salary ranges are determined through interviews and a review of education, experience, knowledge, skills, abilities of the applicant, equity with other team members, and alignment with market data. See more information on our benefits and equity. Sales roles are also eligible for incentive pay targeted at up to 100% of the offered base salary.
California/Colorado/Hawaii/New Jersey/New York/Washington/DC/Illinois/Minnesota pay range
$95,000—$150,000 USD
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GitLab is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and is an affirmative action employer. GitLab’s policies and practices relating to recruitment, employment, career development and advancement, promotion, and retirement are based solely on merit, regardless of race, color, religion, ancestry, sex (including pregnancy, lactation, sexual orientation, gender identity, or gender expression), national origin, age, citizenship, marital status, mental or physical disability, genetic information (including family medical history), discharge status from the military, protected veteran status (which includes disabled veterans, recently separated veterans, active duty wartime or campaign badge veterans, and Armed Forces service medal veterans), or any other basis protected by law. GitLab will not tolerate discrimination or harassment based on any of these characteristics. See also GitLab’s EEO Policy and EEO is the Law. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please let us know during the recruiting process.
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