About this role
GitLab is the intelligent orchestration platform for DevSecOps. GitLab enables organizations to increase developer productivity, improve operational efficiency, reduce security and compliance risk, and accelerate digital transformation. More than 50 million registered users and more than 50% of the Fortune 100* trust GitLab to ship better, more secure software faster.
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 member of the Growth team, you'll play a key role in driving business outcomes by helping users find increased value and efficiency with GitLab. Results for customers is at the top of our values hierarchy because we know that our customers’ success directly drives ours. Ensuring a frictionless experience for users who want to get started, trial, purchase, and explore new features is essential to delivering results for our customers. As a designer in this space, you’ll be instrumental in making that happen.
The acquisition team is a newly established group within Growth, presenting an exciting opportunity to help shape the team's direction and processes. Initially, we'll be focused on optimizing our signup flows and team invite flows to reduce friction and drive key acquisition metrics for new users and teams getting started with GitLab. You'll play a crucial role in designing intuitive, streamlined experiences that help users seamlessly onboard and bring their teammates into the GitLab ecosystem.
Here are some links with extra information:
Product Design team page
Pajamas design system
What you’ll do:
You’ll work alongside UX Researchers, Product Managers, and Engineers to iterate on new features within the GitLab product.
You'll collaborate with teams across the product and across the business to optimize signup flows and team invite experiences, reducing friction and improving conversion at key touchpoints that drive new user acquisition.
You’ll communicate your design thinking and ideas through wireframes, prototypes, user flows, mockups, and high-fidelity visual designs.
You’ll help develop hypotheses and establish clear success metrics to test new features or product changes and determine their impact on user experience and business outcomes.
You'll help establish growth methodologies and best practices that other product teams can adopt to improve onboarding, feature adoption, and discoverability within their own areas.
You’ll engage with our users, prospects, and the wider GitLab community to understand their pain points and work toward long-term fixes that enable them to succeed with their goals.
You’ll undertake usability testing to validate your thinking. (We have an excellent team of UX Researchers who can offer guidance, as needed.)
You’ll contribute to our Design System, alongside the rest of the UX team and the GitLab community as a whole.
Requirements
- Demonstrated experience working as a Growth designer, or working in a growth-relevant area such as onboarding, user acquisition, free-to-paid conversion, or feature adoption.
- Familiarity with product experimentation.
- General knowledge of Git and DevSecOps.
- Ability to collaborate across multiple product teams and stakeholders.
- Experience conducting your own research with a variety of methods, and sound decision-making skills for when to do research.
- Strong visual design skills with the ability to balance leveraging the design system and recognizing when a unique component is needed.
- Remote-EMEA
- 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.
- United States Salary Range
- $100,000—$150,000 USD
- How GitLab will support you
- 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
- Home office support
- 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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