GitLab - Senior Engineering Manager, Design
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Requirements
• Experience leading infrastructure, platform, or development teams, with a track record of building high-performing, values-aligned teams. • Deep expertise in design systems–including design tokens, component architecture, accessibility standards, and contribution models. • Excellent technical background, including professional experience with Git, docs-as-code, Hugo, accessibility and building and maintaining a design system. • Experience of building and supporting multi-lingual sites and localization workflows at scale. • Professional experience with JavaScript (Vue.js) and familiarity with Elasticsearch, Ruby/Go, AI tools, and continuous integration and continuous deployment (CI/CD) practices. • Strong expertise in running and scaling large, consumer-grade platforms, with a focus on reliability, security, performance, and scalability. • Proficiency in the English language, both written and verbal, sufficient for success in a remote and largely asynchronous work environment. • Demonstrated capacity to clearly and concisely communicate about complex technical, architectural, and/or organizational problems and propose thorough iterative solutions. • Experience with performance and optimization problems and a demonstrated ability to both diagnose and prevent these problems • Comfort working in a highly agile, intensely iterative software development process. • Passion for open source and developer tools, with a commitment to GitLab's values, inclusive culture, and high-performance expectations. • Upstream Studios is the full-stack experience organization for GitLab. We imagine it, we design it, we document it, we ship it—partnering across product, engineering, and marketing to deliver a continuous deployment of quality. • We integrate research, design, frontend engineering, documentation, and brand into a unified delivery pipeline, shaping how customers experience GitLab from first impression to final deployment. For more information on how we work, see the Upstream Studios section of the GitLab Handbook. • The base salary range for this role’s listed level is currently for residents of the United States only. This range is intended to reflect the role's base salary rate in locations throughout the US. 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, alignment with market data, and geographic location. The base salary range does not include any bonuses, equity, or benefits. 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.
Responsibilities
• Lead, mentor,and grow a high-performing team of engineers, working across the Pajamas Design System and the GitLab documentation site. • Define and build the engineering practice within Upstream Studios–this is a new function and you’ll have real influence over how it takes shape. • Guide architecture and technical decisions for the design system (components, tokens, patterns) and the docs site (performance, reliability, infrastructure, localization). • Help others across the organization understand the strategic value of a well-maintained design system and documentation platform. • Advocates for engineering quality: technical debt, accessibility standards, customer issues, security, and platform reliability. • Collaborate with Product Design and Technical Writing to translate design and content needs into scalable technical solutions
Benefits
• $195,000—$240,000 USD • How GitLab will support you • Benefits to support your health, finances, and well-being • Flexible Paid Time Off • Team Member Resource Groups • Equity Compensation & Employee Stock Purchase Plan • Growth and Development Fund • 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. • Country Hiring Guidelines: GitLab hires new team members in countries around the world. All of our roles are remote, however some roles may carry specific location-based eligibility requirements. Our Talent Acquisition team can help answer any questions about location after starting the recruiting process. • Country Hiring Guidelines:
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