What You'll Need To Succeed In This Role

• Product knowledge: Deeply understand the technology and features of the Package product area.
• UX Research : Conduct solution validation with the guidance of your Product Design Manager and incorporate insights into design decisions to fulfill user and business needs.
• Deliverables: Create deliverables for your product area (for example: competitive analyses, user flows, low fidelity wireframes, high fidelity mockups, prototypes, etc.) that solve real user problems through the user experience.
• Communication: Communicate the results of UX activities within your product area to the UX department, cross-functional partners within your product area, and other interested GitLab team members using clear language that simplifies complexity.
• Usability: Proactively identify both small and large usability issues within your product area.
• Iteration: Practice design iteration and take part in the monthly release process by breaking down the designs to fit release cadence, reviewing and approving merge requests submitted by developers.
• Design system: Keep design components available and up to date in prototyping tools, ensuring that reusable components fit visually and functionally together, actively contribute to the Pajamas Design System .
• Design reviews: Participate in Design Reviews, giving and appropriately receiving feedback.
• UX debt: Understand UX debt and make recommendations for its resolution with the help of a Sr. Product Designer or your Product Design Manager.

You should apply if:

• You bring at least a couple of years of experience designing developer tools, enterprise software, or complex web applications
• You understand the developer workflow.
• You enjoy getting involved in research and usability testing, and you continually look to improve your user research abilities.
• You want to design for a complex product with technical users who have continually evolving needs.
• You're able to demonstrate your product design skills across user research, UX strategy, wireframing, prototyping, product strategy, and visual design during our Hiring Process .
• The idea of playing a key part in the evolution of our Pajamas Design System is truly exciting to you.
• You bring some familiarity with developer tools. This could be demonstrated by your experience writing code, configuring CI/CD pipelines, reviewing frontend merge requests, or using Git and its command-line.
• Our values of collaboration, results, efficiency, diversity, iteration, and transparency resonate with you