Staff Product Designer, Security & Compliance

About the Role

As a Staff Product Designer for Security & Compliance, you'll lead design for complex security experiences that help organizations protect their software supply chain, manage vulnerabilities, and meet compliance requirements. This role sits at the intersection of deep technical security concepts and user-centered design—translating intricate workflows into clear, usable experiences for developers and security teams.

Your initial focus will be on Software Supply Chain Security (provenance and attestation, signing and verification, dependency firewall, SBOM, and malicious package detection). Over time, your work will span the broader Security & Compliance portfolio, including application security scanners, policy governance, vulnerability management, and agentic orchestration. You'll partner closely with Product Management and Engineering to ensure independently-owned features connect into coherent customer workflows.

This role requires deep systems thinking. Security decisions ripple across the platform—from CI/CD pipelines to registries to deployment. You'll define interaction patterns that scale across product areas, contribute foundational components to our Pajamas Design System, and help establish the design language for how GitLab communicates risk, trust, and compliance status to users.

Staff designers are key culture carriers who model collaboration, iterative ways of working, and high craft standards while mentoring other designers in the organization.

What You’ll Do

• Lead design for security and compliance experiences – Drive end-to-end design for complex security workflows across the software supply chain, including application security scanner, dependency firewall, SBOM, malicious package detection, vulnerability triage, and agentic orchestration. Define both tactical solutions for immediate user problems and strategic patterns that connect to longer-term platform vision.
• Translate technical complexity into clarity – Partner with subject matter experts to transform technical complexity into accessible, value-focused experiences for different user types—from security practitioners to developers who need security integrated seamlessly into their workflow.
• Partner cross-functionally –  Coordinate across multiple security product groups to align on cohesive 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. Raise the quality bar through thoughtful feedback in design reviews and by modeling high standards in your own work.
• 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. Help onboard new team members and contribute to a collective team culture.
• Ground work in research – Conduct usability studies, competitor evaluations, and formative research. Collaborate with UX Research on problem validation and incorporate insights to fulfill user and business needs.

What You’ll Bring

• Demonstrated ability to lead design on complex workflows that require significant cross-functional collaboration
• Strong portfolio showing end-to-end product design work, from problem framing through shipped solutions
• Experience with security, compliance, DevSecOps, or developer-focused B2B SaaS products
• Experience mentoring designers and elevating team craft
• Ability to communicate complex technical topics in clear, value-focused ways for different audiences
• Excellent communication skills and the ability to present work, articulate rationale, and facilitate alignment
• Systems thinking and experience contributing to or working with design systems
• Experience working in remote, distributed teams
• Proficiency with Figma and prototyping tools

About GitLab

GitLab is the most comprehensive AI-powered DevSecOps platform, used by more than 100,000 organizations. Our mission is to enable everyone to contribute to and co-create the software that powers our world.

As an all-remote company since day one, we hire globally and support flexible work. We offer competitive compensation, equity, benefits, and unlimited PTO.

For full role responsibilities and expectations, see the Staff Product Designer role description in our handbook.

GitLab is an equal opportunity employer committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees.