Senior Product Design Manager, Plan and Analytics Remote, Canada; Remote, France; Remote, Germa[...]

Product Design Manager, Platforms, Plan, and Analytics Remote: Canada; France; Germany; Ireland; Netherlands; Spain; United Kingdom; United StatesAn overview of this role GitLab is looking for a Product Design Manager to join the Plan & Analytics stage. As a design leader, you own the delivery of UX commitments, are always looking to improve productivity, and are responsible for the user experience in the product. While you are credible as a designer and know the details of what product designers work on, your time is spent hiring a world‐class team and putting them in the best position to succeed.Examples of our projectsProactively identify large, strategic UX opportunities that span both inside your areas and across the product. Work with other product design managers, staff, and principal product designers to drive cross‐product initiatives through awareness and prioritization.Identify strategic user research initiatives that span multiple stage groups (and possibly the entire product), and work with other product design/research managers to organize research efforts.Be a frequent and active participant in milestones by reviewing UX deliverables (such as research and designs) that your team creates, and provide feedback to ensure high‐quality output.Communicate the value of UX to cross‐functional GitLab team members and work with them to leverage the product development flow.Help the product teams of areas you support to prioritize UX initiatives including Deferred UX, triage and resolution of UX bugs, and overall usability improvements to the product. Lead UX Scorecard initiatives in order to consistently measure the experience of your product areas and show improvements over time.Contribute to product direction conversations, with emphasis on leading the experience vision for your product areas.Hire, grow and retain a world‐class team of Designers.You will work closely with three designers. You will collaborate with the Group Product Manager, Engineering Director, and UX Researcher to improve team communication and maintain excitement about the opportunities ahead.What you'll bringExperience managing a group of designers remotely, who work on complex products.Deep experience building AI experience for the software development lifecycle.Experience defining/executing on the high‐level strategy (the why) and creating design deliverables (the how) based on research.Experience driving organizational change with cross‐functional stakeholders, including Product Management and Engineering.Solid visual awareness with understanding of basic design principles and accessibility.You share our values and work in accordance with those values.Equal Employment Opportunity Statement 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 also GitLab's EEO Policy and EEO is the Law. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please let us know during the recruiting process.#J-18808-Ljbffr