Product Design Manager, Plan

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An Overview of This Role

Being the Product Design Manager for the Plan team is a very exciting position. With millions of daily active users, our design work has a big impact on our users and our business. The Plan team has recently undergone a larger collaborative rethinking of their value proposition and strategy, and is now shifting into executing on that new vision.

A work tracking solution for cross-functional organizations: a familiar environment for developers with the visibility planners and stakeholders need in one platform. Elevate planning from a frustrating bottleneck to a value accelerator where everyone contributes, iterates, and delivers results together.

What You’ll Do

• Work with a great team of designers on one of the foundational parts of our product.
• Own the non-developer adoption strategy by designing experiences that reduce cognitive load for product managers, project managers, and executives.
• Lead cross-stage initiatives that leverage GitLab’s integrated platform advantage.
• Execute against measurable outcomes, including CSAT improvements, Plan adoption increases, and revenue growth.
• Identifying and creating opportunities of growth for your designers.
• Drive systematic UX debt resolution across Work Items, boards, filtering, and collaboration features.
• Helping your team with understanding and implementing UX processes

What You’ll Bring

• Proven success managing design teams working on enterprise planning tools that compete with Jira, Asana, Monday.com, or similar platforms
• Great feedback skills.
• Solid visual design sensibility with an understanding of design principles and accessibility
• Passion and excitement for the Project Management and Product Planning space.

About the team

The teams in Plan are working on tools for companies to manage and optimize their work, track operational health and measure outcomes. Their mission is to transform GitLab from a developer-centric tool to a comprehensive planning solution that serves both technical and non-technical users equally well. They want to evolve our planning capabilities to become a competitive Value Stream Management solution while maintaining our unique advantage as an integrated DevSecOps platform.

The base salary range for this role’s listed level is currently for residents of listed locations only. 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, and alignment with market data.

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