About the Role
- Staff Product Designer for Security & Compliance, leading design complex security that help organizations protect their software supply chain, manage, and meet compliance requirements.
- Initial focus will be on Software Supply Chain Security (provenance and attestation, signing and verification, dependency firewall, SBOM, and malicious package detection).
- Over time, work will span the broader Security & Compliance portfolio, including application security scanners, policy governance, vulnerability management, and agentic orchestration.
- Partner closely with Product Management and Engineering to ensure independently-owned features connect into coherent customer workflows.
- Requires deep systems thinking to define interaction patterns that scale across product areas, contribute foundational components to the Pajamas Design System, and help establish the design language for how GitLab communicates risk, trust, and compliance status to users.
- Staff designers act as culture carriers who model collaboration, iterative ways of working, and high craft standards while mentoring other designers in the organization.
What You'll Be Doing
- Lead design for security and compliance experiences by driving end-to-end design for complex security workflows across the software supply chain, including application security scanner, dependency firewall, SBOM, malicious package detection, vulnerability triage, and agentic orchestration.
- Define both tactical solutions for immediate user problems and strategic patterns that connect to longer-term platform vision.
- Partner with subject matter experts to transform technical complexity into accessible, value-focused experiences for different user types—from security practitioners to developers who need security integrated seamlessly into their workflow.
- Coordinate across multiple security product groups to align on cohesive experiences.
- Work closely with Product Managers and Engineering Managers to shape priorities, scope MVCs, and ensure design intent is maintained through development.
- Demonstrate excellence in interaction design, visual design, and systems thinking.
- Raise the quality bar through thoughtful feedback in design reviews and by modeling high standards in your own work.
- Actively contribute to Pajamas by identifying reusable patterns, proposing new components, and ensuring group work extends and adheres to Design Systems standards.
- Coach Product Designers and Senior Product Designers through pairing, design critiques, and knowledge sharing.
- Help onboard new team members and contribute to a collective team culture.
- Conduct usability studies, competitor evaluations, and formative research.
- Collaborate with UX Research on problem validation and incorporate insights to fulfill user and business needs.
What You'll Bring
Demonstrated ability to lead design on complex workflows that require significant cross-functional collaboration.
Strong portfolio showing end-to-end product design work, from problem framing through shipped solutions.
Experience with security, compliance, DevSecOps, or developer-focused B2B SaaS products.
Experience mentoring designers and elevating team craft.
Ability to communicate complex technical topics in clear, value-focused ways for different audiences.
Excellent communication skills and the ability to present work, articulate rationale, and facilitate alignment.
Systems thinking and experience contributing to or working with Design Systems.
Experience working in remote, distributed teams.
Proficiency with Figma and prototyping tools.
Compensation & Benefits
- United States Salary Range: $125,000 - $200,000 USD.
- Competitive compensation, equity, benefits, and unlimited PTO.
About GitLab
- GitLab is the most comprehensive AI-powered DevSecOps platform, used by more than 100,000 organizations.
- The platform enables organizations to increase developer productivity, improve operational efficiency, reduce security and compliance risk, and accelerate digital transformation.
- More than 50 million registered users and more than 50% of the Fortune 100 trust GitLab to ship better, more secure software faster.
- GitLab is an all-remote company that hires globally and supports flexible work.
- The team embraces AI as a core productivity multiplier, with all team members expected to incorporate AI into their daily workflows to drive efficiency, innovation, and impact.