Senior Product Designer, Policies

<div class="content-intro"><p>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.</p> <p>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 <a href="https://handbook.gitlab.com/handbook/values/">values</a> and continuous knowledge exchange, enabling our team members to reach their full potential while collaborating with industry leaders to solve complex problems. <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OuZIb5zszQI">Co-create the future with us</a> as we build technology that transforms how the world develops software.</p> <p>*<em>Fortune 500® is a registered trademark of Fortune Media IP Limited, used under license. Claim based on GitLab data. Fortune 100 refers to the top 20% ranked companies in the 2025 Fortune 500 list, published in June 2025. Fortune and Fortune Media IP Limited are not affiliated with, and do not endorse products or services of GitLab.</em></p></div><p>GitLab is seeking a Senior Product Designer to lead design for security policies and compliance workflows, collaborate across product teams, and elevate the quality of our security governance experiences.</p> <h2><strong>About the Role</strong></h2> <p>As a <strong>Senior Product Designer for Security, Policies</strong>, you'll own the design of policy configuration and compliance workflows that help organizations enforce security standards, meet regulatory requirements, and govern the SDLC. This role focuses on translating complex governance requirements into intuitive, scalable, usable experiences for AppSec professionals, Compliance managers, and Developers.</p> <p>Your primary focus will be on Security Policies—designing experiences that enable teams to define security rules, configure enforcement mechanisms, manage exceptions, and demonstrate compliance. You'll work within the broader Security Compliance portfolio, ensuring policy experiences integrate seamlessly with vulnerability management, application security scanners, and remediation workflows. You'll partner closely with your Product Management and Engineering counterparts to deliver cohesive policy experiences that meet user needs.</p> <p>This role requires strong execution skills and systems thinking. Security policies affect workflows across GitLab—from CI/CD pipelines to merge requests to deployment gates. You'll design experiences that work within GitLab's existing interaction patterns, apply Pajamas Design System standards, and ensure policy workflows feel consistent with the rest of the security platform.</p> <p>Senior designers deliver excellent craft, collaborate effectively across teams, and contribute to a culture of quality and iteration.</p> <p data-sourcepos="5:1-5:35"> </p> <p><strong>What You’ll Do</strong></p> <p data-sourcepos="5:1-5:35"> </p> <ul> <li><strong>Own design for security policy and compliance experiences – </strong>Lead end-to-end design for policy configuration, compliance reporting, and SDLC governance. Deliver usable solutions that solve immediate user problems while maintaining quality and consistency.</li> <li><strong>Translate technical complexity into clear experiences – </strong>Partner with security experts to understand policy configuration, compliance frameworks, and enforcement logic, then design experiences that make complex governance accessible for different user types—from AppSec professionals configuring deta ... (truncated, view full listing at source)