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The same principles built into our products are reflected in how our team works: we embrace AI as a core productivity multiplier, with all team members expected to incorporate AI into their daily workflows to drive efficiency, innovation, and impact. GitLab is where careers accelerate, innovation flourishes, and every voice is valued. Our high-performance culture is driven by our values and continuous knowledge exchange, enabling our team members to reach their full potential while collaborating with industry leaders to solve complex problems. Co-create the future with us as we build technology that transforms how the world develops software.
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About the Role
As a Staff Product Designer for Security & Compliance, you'll lead design for complex security experiences that help organizations protect their software supply chain, manage vulnerabilities, and meet compliance requirements. This role sits at the intersection of deep technical security concepts and user-centered design—translating intricate workflows into clear, usable experiences for developers and security teams.
Your initial focus will be on Software Supply Chain Security (provenance and attestation, signing and verification, dependency firewall, SBOM, and malicious package detection). Over time, your work will span the broader Security & Compliance portfolio, including application security scanners, policy governance, vulnerability management, and agentic orchestration. You'll partner closely with Product Management and Engineering to ensure independently-owned features connect into coherent customer workflows.
This role requires deep systems thinking. Security decisions ripple across the platform—from CI/CD pipelines to registries to deployment. You'll define interaction patterns that scale across product areas, contribute foundational components to our Pajamas Design System, and help establish the design language for how GitLab communicates risk, trust, and compliance status to users.
Staff designers are key culture carriers who model collaboration, iterative ways of working, and high craft standards while mentoring other designers in the organization.
What You’ll Do
- Lead design for security and compliance experiences – Drive 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.
- Translate technical complexity into clarity – 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.
- Partner cross-functionally – 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.
- Elevate craft and quality – 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.
- Contribute to the design system – Actively contribute to Pajamas by identifying reusable patterns, proposing new components, and ensuring your group’s work extends and adheres to system standards.
- Mentor and support others – 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.
- Ground work in research – 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
About GitLab
GitLab is the most comprehensive AI-powered DevSecOps platform, used by more than 100,000 organizations. Our mission is to enable everyone to contribute to and co-create the software that powers our world.
As an all-remote company since day one, we hire globally and support flexible work. We offer competitive compensation, equity, benefits, and unlimited PTO.
For full role responsibilities and expectations, see the Staff Product Designer role description in our handbook.
GitLab is an equal opportunity employer committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees.
The base salary range for this role’s listed level is currently for residents of the United States only. This range is intended to reflect the role's base salary rate in locations throughout the US. 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, alignment with market data, and geographic location. The base salary range does not include any bonuses, equity, or benefits. 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.
- Benefits to support your health, finances, and well-being
- Flexible Paid Time Off
- Team Member Resource Groups
- Equity Compensation & Employee Stock Purchase Plan
- Growth and Development Fund
- Parental Leave
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.
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Skills Required
- 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
What the Team is Saying
GitLab Compensation & Benefits Highlights
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Flexible PTO has no set annual cap and encourages roughly 25 days per year and at least two consecutive weeks, with clear guidance for coordination and coverage. Longer stretches are allowed within documented guardrails, supporting extended rest while maintaining team continuity.
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Parental & Family Support — Paid parental leave is set at 16 weeks globally at full pay, with a toolkit and re‑entry support that ease transitions. Policies explain coordination with statutory programs where applicable to keep pay whole.
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Healthcare Strength — U.S. offerings include multiple medical options (Cigna nationwide and Kaiser in select states), plus dental, vision, EAP, Modern Health, HSAs/FSAs with employer contributions, and a travel HRA. Benefits are organized for an all‑remote workforce with clear, self‑serve handbook guidance.
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What We Do
GitLab is the Intelligent Orchestration Platform where software teams and their AI agents stay in flow to amplify their capacity for innovation. Together, they automate repetitive tasks to plan, build, secure, test, deploy and maintain software. With GitLab, software teams spend less time on coordination overhead and more time on the next big idea. What started in 2011 as an open source project to help one team of programmers collaborate is now the intelligent orchestration platform millions of people use to deliver software faster, more efficiently, while strengthening security and compliance. Since the beginning, we've been firm believers in remote work, open source, DevSecOps, and iteration. We get up and log on in the morning to work alongside the GitLab community to deliver new innovations every month that help teams and their AI agents ship great code faster.
Why Work With Us
GitLab is where careers accelerate, innovation flourishes, and every voice is valued. Co-create the future with us as we build technology that transforms how the world develops software.
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