Product Designer, Package

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A brief overview:

Our Package Group works on the part of GitLab concerning the Package stage, which integrates with GitLab's CI/CD product. The Package Group's mission is to create a secure environment where both source code and dependencies can live by allowing users to publish, consume, and discover packages of a large variety of languages and platforms all in one place. The Package group is responsible for container registry, package repositories, and the dependency proxy. All of these are key components of our CI/CD offering where our users pull more than a million packages each week!

As a Product Designer, you will work with our customers, users, and cross-functional Package team to develop the UX vision for the Package Group.

What you can expect in a Product Designer / Senior Product Designer, Package role at GitLab::

• You'll work alongside a Product Manager, UX Researcher, other Product Designers, and Engineers to iterate on new features and user journeys in GitLab.
• You'll develop a UX vision for Package and deliver upon this vision iteratively.
• You'll utilize wireframes, prototypes, sketches, user flows, mockups, high fidelity visual designs, and any other artefacts you believe are necessary to convey your design thinking and ideas.
• You'll partner with UX Researchers & Product Managers on problem validation studies to understand the problem space you're operating within.
• You'll leverage solution validation studies to validate your solutions and proposed directions.
• You'll gather user needs through user interviews or contextual inquiries and will convert those into user requirements.
• Gain a deeper understanding of the Product Designer workflow and work with your peers and manager to design solutions for real customer problems. 

You should apply if:

• You bring experience designing for enterprise products or developer tools.
• You've got some experience with Git, GitLab, or other Git-based tools.
• Our values of collaboration, results, efficiency, diversity, iteration, and transparency resonate with you.
• You enjoy getting involved in research and usability testing, and you continually look to improve your user research abilities.
• You want to design for a complex product with technical users who have continually evolving needs.
• You are self-motivated and self-managing, with strong organizational skills.
• You're able to demonstrate your product design skills across user research, UX strategy, wireframing, prototyping, product strategy, and visual design during our Hiring Process.
• The idea of playing a key part in the evolution of our Pajamas Design System is truly exciting to you.

Also, we know it’s tough, but please try to avoid the ​​confidence gap​.​​ You don’t have to match all the listed requirements exactly to be considered for this role.

What it's like to work at GitLab:

The culture at GitLab is something we're incredibly proud of. You'll spend your time collaborating with kind, talented, and motivated colleagues from across the world.

Some of the benefits you'll be entitled to vary by the region or country you're in. However, all GitLab team members are fully remote and receive a "no ask, must tell" paid-time-off policy, where we don't count the number of days you take off annually.

You can work incredibly flexible hours, enabled by our asynchronous approach to communication. We'll also help you set up your home office environment, pay for your membership to a co-working space, and, every year or so, we'll invite you to our Contribute event.

Our hiring process and compensation:

The hiring process for this Product Designer position typically follows five stages. The details of this process can be found at the bottom of our job family page. Our compensation calculator will be shared with candidates selected for a screening call.

For Colorado residents: The base salary range for this role’s listed level is currently $113,400 - $199,300 for Colorado residents 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. Disclosure as required by the Colorado Equal Pay for Equal Work Act, C.R.S. § 8-5-101 et seq.