This position is remote.

The Product Strategy team is responsible for delivering long-range impact, specifically focused on interactive prototypes and landing moonshots. The team reports to the VP of Product Strategy.

• Create interactive prototypes of the future; telling a story that conveys our vision and strategy.
• Cut down moonshots into iterable issues; deliver first MVCs.

• Help to define and improve the interface and experience of GitLab.
• Design features that fit within the larger experience and flows.
• Create deliverables (wireframes, mockups, prototypes, flows, etc.) to communicate ideas.
• Work with Product Managers and Engineers to iterate on and refine the existing experience.
• Involve UX Researchers when needed, and help them define research initiatives (usability tests, surveys, interviews, etc.).
• Stay informed and share the latest on UI/UX techniques, tools, and patterns.
• Understand responsive design and best practices.
• Have working knowledge of HTML, CSS. Familiarity with Javascript.
• Have knowledge and understanding of design systems theory and practice.
• Have a general knowledge of Git flow (feature branching, etc.), merge/pull requests, pipelines, and code testing.

• Deeply understand the technology and features of the stage group to which you are assigned.
• Actively evaluate and incorporate feedback from UX Research, and conduct evaluative research with guidance from the UX Research Team and/or Senior Product Designers.
• Help create strategic deliverables like journey maps, storyboards, competitive analyses, and personas.
• Create well-designed tactical deliverables, like wireframes and prototypes, to communicate your ideas.
• Proactively identify both small and large usability issues within your stage group.
• Participate in Design Reviews, giving and receiving feedback in an appropriate way.
• Actively contribute to the [Pajamas Design System][pajamas].
• Break down designs to fit within the monthly release cadence, engage your team to review designs early and often, and productively iterate across milestones. Prioritize your tasks, even when deadlines seem overwhelming, and ask for help, as needed.
• Participate in and help drive product discovery to generate ideas for features and improvements.
• Take part in the monthly release process by reviewing and approving UX implementations.

Everything in the Product Designer role, plus:

• Have working knowledge of the end-to-end GitLab product.
• Proactively identify strategic UX needs within your stage group, and engage other Product Designers within your stage group to help you create deliverables like journey maps, storyboards, competitive analyses, and personas.
• Proactively identify both small and large usability issues within your stage group, and help influence your Product Manager to prioritize them.
• Proactively identify user research needs, and conduct evaluative research with guidance from the UX Research team.
• Broadly communicate the results of UX activities within your stage group to the UX department, cross-functional partners within your stage group, and other interested GitLab team-members using clear language that simplifies complexity.
• Mentor other members of the UX department, both inside and outside of your stage group.
• Engage in social media efforts, including writing blog articles, giving talks, and responding on Twitter, as appropriate.
• Interview potential UX candidates.

• Interactive prototypes created
• Moonshots landed

More job information, including pay can be found on the Product Strategy Job Family Page.