Product Designer, Pipeline Security

Our Pipeline Security team provide confidence in software by increasing visibility into code change impacts in GitLab. There are two categories in Pipeline Security – Secrets Management and Build Artifacts. You’ll be collaborating directly with the researcher and feature team, working on things like all facets of research and balancing forward-looking work with current usability problems. One of the key initiatives you’ll tackle in the immediate term is designing the new GitLab-native Secrets Manager experience!

Secrets management is a key product investment area for GitLab, so this is a great opportunity to work on a part of the product with a large focus.

Here are some pages with more info:

• Product Design department page
• Our design principles
• Pipeline Security Group page
• Secrets Management roadmap
• Build Artifacts roadmap

What you’ll do

• You’ll define the product goals, roadmap, and strategy, all to solve user problems.
• You’ll work alongside UX Researchers, Product Managers, and Engineers to iterate on new features within the GitLab product.
• You’ll communicate your design thinking and ideas through wireframes, prototypes, user flows, mockups, and high-fidelity visual designs.
• You’ll engage with our user base and the wider GitLab community to understand their pain points and work toward long-term fixes that enable them to succeed with their goals.
• You’ll undertake usability testing to validate your thinking. (We’ve got an excellent team of UX Researchers who can offer guidance, as needed.)
• You’ll contribute to our Design System, alongside the rest of the UX team and the GitLab community as a whole.

What you’ll bring

• Strong experience designing developer tools, enterprise software or complex web applications.
• Experience creating and implementing UX design for the developer persona in enterprise software, ideally within highly regulated industries or security.
• Strong experience following a user-centered or human-centered design approach, in conjunction with design thinking.
• Enjoy getting involved in research and usability testing, and know when to engage with UXR.
• You already practice design iteration and have experience building strong connections with key customers.
• Comfortable working in a git workflow.

About the team

Product Designers are highly collaborative roles at GitLab – you’re part of the Product Design org, you report into a Product Design Manager, but work to embed yourself into the feature team that you’re working on. You will become an expert in this area, and eventually the broader GitLab product.

Secrets Management: This category is a key product investment area for GitLab. The team’s current focus is to deliver a GitLab-first functionality that can connect to 3rd party application secrets so that teams can safely deploy software. This year’s focus is to provide advanced security and compliance within GitLab. Next to that, we’re working to: Improve the user experience for CI variables settings; Prototype a native secrets manager to better understand how our customers are using secrets to secure workflows; Validate technical and user constraints to the GitLab-native secrets manager experience.

Build Artifacts: This category covers the experiences related to the display of artifact data. The team plans to release UI functionality allowing the bulk delete of build artifacts through the Artifacts page. There are no additional planned features for Build Artifacts in FY24 (2023-02 to 2024-01).

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.