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***Cross-product collaboration:** Proactively identify large, strategic UX opportunities that span both inside your areas and across the product. Work with other product design managers, staff, and principal product designers to drive cross-product initiatives through awareness and prioritization.
***Design quality:** Be a frequent and active participant in milestones by reviewing UX deliverables (such as research and designs) that your team creates, and provide feedback to ensure high-quality output.
***Research:** Identify strategic user research initiatives that span multiple stage groups (and possibly the entire product), and work with other product design/research managers to organize research efforts. Help product designers identify when research is needed for their stage group.
***UX evangelism:** Communicate the value of UX to cross-functional GitLab team members and work with them to leverage the [product development flow](/handbook/product-development/how-we-work/product-development-flow/). Work closely with PMs to provide visibility and awareness into UX initiates (including OKRs) and advocate for their prioritization.
***UX evangelism:** Communicate the value of UX to cross-functional GitLab team members and work with them to leverage the [product development flow](/handbook/product-development/how-we-work/product-development-flow/). Work closely with PMs to provide visibility and awareness into UX initiatives and advocate for their prioritization.
***Usability:** Help the product teams of areas you support to prioritize UX initiatives including [Deferred UX](/handbook/product/ux/performance-indicators/#deferred-ux), triage and resolution of UX bugs, and overall usability improvements to the product. Lead [UX Scorecard](/handbook/product/ux/ux-scorecards) initiatives in order to consistently measure the experience of your product areas and show improvements over time.
***UX process**: Set up and manage collaborative processes within your team to ensure product designers, technical writers, and researchers are actively working together. Make sure they have exposure to the work that is happening within the broader team. Collaborate with your peers to make improvements to how we work across the design organization.
***Hiring:** Help source talent, interview, and conduct portfolio reviews of product design candidates to hire a world-class team. Review and provide feedback on interview scorecards to maintain a high-quality interview process.
