Job Description
GitLab is seeking a Senior UX Architect to join their Organizations group. This role is pivotal in shaping the structural experience of the GitLab platform by defining foundational models, navigation systems, and an information architecture that scales across the entire platform. The UX Architect will focus on simplifying administration, enhancing scalability, and improving the experience for large-scale organizations and their end users.
What this role involves:
- Defining core interaction and information models for GitLab’s hierarchy.
- Shaping platform-wide navigation and context-switching rules.
- Developing inheritance models for settings, permissions, and data visibility.
- Contributing to strategies for migrating features into the new Organization layer.
- Leading architectural reviews across teams to identify inconsistencies.
- Creating guidelines and best practices for future development.
- Partnering with Product Designers to evolve practical patterns into reusable models.
- Serving as an advocate for long-term UX strategy across multiple teams.
Requirements:
- Extensive experience designing IA and interaction models for complex platforms.
- A systems-thinking mindset and comfort working across multiple teams.
- Strong ability to shape and communicate long-term architectural vision.
- Familiarity with enterprise-scale products and multi-tenant models.
- Confidence in navigating ambiguity and aligning cross-functional partners.
- A collaborative, documentation-first approach.
What this role offers:
- All remote, asynchronous work environment
- Flexible Paid Time Off
- Equity Compensation & Employee Stock Purchase Plan
- Growth and Development Fund
- Parental leave
- Home office support