Staff Product Designer - Knowledge Graph for Remote Teams

About the Role

We are looking for a Staff Product Designer, Knowledge Graph remote to join GitLab, the intelligent orchestration platform for DevSecOps. In this role, you will lead design for cross-cutting platform experiences, impacting workflows across various stages. Your expertise will help us translate ambiguity into clear direction, define solutions, and enhance the experience for developers and DevSecOps teams.

What You’ll Do

• Lead design on platform experience – Drive the end-to-end design process for cross-cutting features and workflows that impact users across the product.
• Define both tactical deliverables that solve immediate user problems and strategic outputs that connect to longer-term platform vision.
• Partner cross-functionally – Coordinate across multiple groups to align on platform-level 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.
• 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.
• Ground work in research – Conduct usability studies, competitor evaluations, and formative research.

Requirements

• Demonstrated ability to lead design on complex, ambiguous projects that require significant cross-functional collaboration.
• Strong portfolio showing end-to-end product design work, from problem framing through shipped solutions.
• Experience mentoring designers and elevating team craft.
• Proficiency with Figma and prototyping tools.
• Excellent communication skills–ability to present work, articulate rationale, and facilitate alignment.
• Experience collaborating closely with Product Management and Engineering.
• Systems thinking and experience contributing to or working with design systems.
• Familiarity with developer tools, DevSecOps, or technical B2B products is a plus.
• Experience working in remote, distributed teams.

Nice to Have

• Experience with agile methodologies.
• Knowledge of Git and SecOps.
• Experience in a fast-paced startup environment.

What We Offer

• Flexible Paid Time Off.
• Team Member Resource Groups.
• Equity Compensation & Employee Stock Purchase Plan.
• Growth and Development Fund.
• Parental leave.
• Home office support.