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Senior UX Architect, Organizations

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The UX Architect will define foundational models, navigation systems, and information architecture for GitLab, enhancing user experiences for large organizations. Key responsibilities include developing core models, leading architectural reviews, and collaborating with cross-functional teams to align on UX strategy.
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GitLab is an open-core software company that develops 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. When everyone can contribute, consumers become contributors, significantly accelerating human progress. Our platform unites teams and organizations, breaking down barriers and redefining what's possible in software development. Thanks to products like Duo Enterprise and Duo Agent Platform, customers get AI benefits at every stage of the SDLC. 

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.

About the role

As a UX Architect embedded in the Organizations group, you’ll shape the structural experience of GitLab by defining foundational models, navigation systems, and an information architecture that scales across our entire platform. This pivotal initiative aims to simplify administration, enhance scalability, and improve the experience for large-scale organizations and their end users.

In this role, you’ll define the conceptual models and frameworks that support GitLab’s expanding hierarchy, ensuring structural consistency and platform-wide scalability. You’ll play a key role in shaping the long-term vision for the Organizations experience, aligning system-level design with GitLab’s strategic goals. Your work will also support a migration strategy that ensures the transition is compelling and valuable as we iterate to reach the long-term vision.

This is a highly visible and impactful role. You’ll work across a wide area to align teams on a common framework, support feature migration, and ensure a cohesive experience for both administrators and daily users. Success in this role will require excellent product understanding, systems thinking, and the ability to influence decisions at scale.

By joining this team, you’ll play a critical role in shaping the future of GitLab while leaving a lasting mark on a product that impacts millions of users. This is also a chance to grow as a UX leader, helping define and evolve the UX Architect role at Gitlab while working alongside talented designers and cross-functional partners across the company.


What You’ll Do  

  • Define core interaction and information models for GitLab’s hierarchy and how users move between levels.
  • Shape platform-wide navigation, context-switching rules, and contextual awareness.
  • Develop inheritance models for settings, permissions, and data visibility.
  • Contribute to strategies for migrating features into the new Organization layer.
  • Lead architectural reviews across teams to identify inconsistencies and align on IA standards.
  • Create guidelines, best practices, and governance processes that can guide future development and maintain long-term consistency.
  • Partner with Product Designers to evolve practical patterns into reusable models.
  • Serve as an advocate and partner for long-term UX strategy across multiple teams.

What You’ll Bring 

  • Extensive experience designing and evolving IA and interaction models for complex platforms.
  • A systems-thinking mindset and comfort working across multiple teams and scopes.
  • 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 with the re.
  • A collaborative, documentation-first approach suited to GitLab’s asynchronous culture.

About the team


At GitLab, UX Architects collaborate closely with product managers, engineers, UX researchers, technical writers, and other product designers to create cohesive, scalable, and systematic user experiences across the platform.


Here are some links with extra information:

  • UX Department team page
  • Pajamas design system

How GitLab will support you

  • Benefits to support your health, finances, and well-being
  • All remote, asynchronous work environment
  • 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.


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. 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.

California/Colorado/Hawaii/New Jersey/New York/Washington/DC/Illinois/Minnesota pay range
$125,000$180,000 USD

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GitLab is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and is an affirmative action employer. GitLab’s policies and practices relating to recruitment, employment, career development and advancement, promotion, and retirement are based solely on merit, regardless of race, color, religion, ancestry, sex (including pregnancy, lactation, sexual orientation, gender identity, or gender expression), national origin, age, citizenship, marital status, mental or physical disability, genetic information (including family medical history), discharge status from the military, protected veteran status (which includes disabled veterans, recently separated veterans, active duty wartime or campaign badge veterans, and Armed Forces service medal veterans), or any other basis protected by law. GitLab will not tolerate discrimination or harassment based on any of these characteristics. See also GitLab’s EEO Policy and EEO is the Law. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please let us know during the recruiting process.

Top Skills

AI
Design Systems
Devsecops
Information Architecture

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