Product Design Manager, Plan

GitLab; United States; Remote; USD 150,000 - 215,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company in software development seeks a Product Design Manager for the Plan team. This role focuses on driving user experience and product adoption across GitLab’s platform, fostering collaboration amongst designers, and enhancing planning tools aimed at both technical and non-technical users.

Benefits

Remote work flexibility

Competitive salary and equity offerings

Inclusive workplace culture

Qualifications

• Proven success managing design teams for enterprise planning tools.
• Solid visual design understanding and accessibility knowledge.
• Passionate about Project Management and Product Planning.

Responsibilities

• Lead design teams on foundational parts of the product.
• Drive UX debt resolution across various features.
• Create non-developer adoption strategies for product managers.

Skills

Design management

Feedback skills

Visual design sensibility

Understanding of design principles

Accessibility awareness

Project Management

Job description

GitLab is an open core software company that develops the most comprehensiveAI-powered DevSecOps Platform, used by more than 100,000 organizations. Ourmissionis to enable everyone to contribute to and co-create the software that powers our world. When everyone can contribute, consumers become contributors, significantly accelerating the rate of human progress. This mission is integral to our culture, influencing how we hire, build products, and lead our industry. We make this possible at GitLab by running ouroperationson our product and staying aligned with ourvalues. Learn more aboutLife at GitLab.

Thanks to products likeDuo Enterprise, andDuo Workflow, customers get the benefit of AI at every stage of the SDLC. The same principles built into our products are reflected in how our team works: we embrace AI as a core productivity multiplier. All team members are encouraged and expected to incorporate AI into their daily workflows to drive efficiency, innovation, and impact across our global organisation.

An Overview of This Role

Being the Product Design Manager for the Plan team is a very exciting position. With millions of daily active users, our design work has a big impact on our users and our business. The Plan team has recently undergone a larger collaborative rethinking of their value proposition and strategy, and is now shifting into executing on that new vision.

A work tracking solution for cross-functional organizations: a familiar environment for developers with the visibility planners and stakeholders need in one platform. Elevate planning from a frustrating bottleneck to a value accelerator where everyone contributes, iterates, and delivers results together.

What You’ll Do

• Work with a great team of designers on one of the foundational parts of our product.
• Own the non-developer adoption strategy by designing experiences that reduce cognitive load for product managers, project managers, and executives.
• Lead cross-stage initiatives that leverage GitLab’s integrated platform advantage.
• Execute against measurable outcomes, including CSAT improvements, Plan adoption increases, and revenue growth.
• Identifying and creating opportunities of growth for your designers.
• Drive systematic UX debt resolution across Work Items, boards, filtering, and collaboration features.
• Helping your team with understanding and implementing UX processes

What You’ll Bring

• Proven success managing design teams working on enterprise planning tools that compete with Jira, Asana, Monday.com, or similar platforms
• Great feedback skills.
• Solid visual design sensibility with an understanding of design principles and accessibility
• Passion and excitement for the Project Management and Product Planning space.
• You meet the eligibility criteria for internal applicants

About the team

The teams in Plan are working on tools for companies to manage and optimize their work, track operational health and measure outcomes. Their mission is to transform GitLab from a developer-centric tool to a comprehensive planning solution that serves both technical and non-technical users equally well. They want to evolve our planning capabilities to become a competitive Value Stream Management solution while maintaining our unique advantage as an integrated DevSecOps platform.

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 $150,000 — $215,000 USD

Country Hiring Guidelines: GitLab hires new team members in countries around the world. All of our roles are remote, however some roles may carry specific location-based eligibility requirements. Our Talent Acquisition team can help answer any questions about location after starting the recruiting process.

Privacy Policy: Please review our Recruitment Privacy Policy. Your privacy is important to us.

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 alsoGitLab’s EEO PolicyandEEO is the Law. If you have a disability or special need that requiresaccommodation, please let us know during therecruiting process.