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## Roles
### Vice President of UX
The VP of UX (User Experience) reports to the Chief Product Officer (CPO), and Directors of Product Design, UX Research, and Technical Writing report to the VP of UX.
#### Job Level
The VP of UX is outlined in the [Job Levels](https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1kcDb-A2uwchPtTNSJON65BdqS9P0KQmNz0fbNMZMt_M/edit?gid=819074618#gid=819074618) resource.
#### Responsibilities
-**UX strategy:** Set a UX vision that aligns Product Design, UX Research, and Technical Writing with overall company objectives.
- Communicate broadly about important UX initiatives, setting an ambitious UX vision for the department, product, and company.
-**UX resources:** Manage the UX budget, including compensation planning, non-headcount budget allocation, and tradeoff decisions.
-**Executive collaboration:** Interface regularly with executives on important decisions.
-**UX initiatives:** Identify ways to elevate the GitLab product experience, manage initiatives to address those concerns, and track and communicate about progress.
-**Coach UX leaders:** Help UX leaders grow their skills and leadership experience.
-**Culture:** Foster an open and collaborative culture based on trust in the UX department, where everyone feels empowered to do their best work.
-**Cross-product collaboration:** Ensure that UX is well-integrated into the [Product Development Flow](/handbook/product-development/how-we-work/product-development-flow/), and advocate for process changes that help product management, engineering, and UX work together to build a great experience.
-**Design system:** Define and promote design guidelines, best practices, and standards, and help to drive GitLab's [design system](https://design.gitlab.com/) forward at a strategic level.
-**Research evangelism:** Work with product leadership to prioritize research efforts, so that we validate whether we're solving the right problems in the right ways.
-**Democratize UX:** Ensure that Development is included in the UX process by offering the opportunity to participate in and understand the outcomes of user research, give early feedback on upcoming designs, and participate in design system strategy.
-**Goal setting:** Define value-driven quarterly UX OKRs, and manage their execution.
-**Public presence:** Represent the company at conferences, in media, in blog articles, in YouTube videos, and in other public venues.
-**Skip levels:** Hold regular skip-level 1:1s with all members of their team.
-**Team building:** Hire and retain a world-class team of Product Designers, UX Researchers, Technical Writers, and their managers.
#### Requirements
- 18+ years of relevant experience including leading UX for a product-led company.
- 10+ years of people management experience, including management of Director+ leaders.
- A strong philosophy about how to help cross-functional UX teams to work together effectively and collaborate with their business counterparts.
- Solid visual awareness with understanding of basic design principles like typography, layout, composition, and color theory.
- Passion for creating visually pleasing and intuitive user experiences.
- Collaborative team spirit with great communication skills.
- You share our [values](/handbook/values/), and work in accordance with those values.
-[Leadership at GitLab](/handbook/company/structure/#director-group)
#### Interview Process
-[Screening call](/handbook/hiring/candidate-faq/#screening-call) with a recruiter.
- Interview with a manager on the UX Leadership team. In this interview, the interviewer will spend a lot of time trying to understand the experience you have leading managers, as well as what type of teams you have led and your management style. The interviewer will also be looking to understand how you define strategy, how you've handled conflict, and how you dealt with difficult situations in the past. Do be prepared to talk about your work, experience with Design Systems, and technical ability, too.
- Interview with a director on the UX Leadership team. In this interview, we will be looking for you to give some real insight into a problem you were solving as part of a large initiative you led the work on. We'll look to understand the size and structure of the team, the goals of the project, how you/the team approached research, how you used research to inform decisions, and how you collaborated with the wider team. Broadly, we want to hear how you identified what needed to be done and then guided your team to the end result.
- Interview with VP of Product Management.
- Interview with CPO.
As always, interviews and the screening call will be conducted via video.
See more details about our hiring process on the [hiring handbook](/handbook/hiring/).
#### Performance indicators
-[Hiring Actual vs Plan](/handbook/product/ux/performance-indicators/#hiring-actual-vs-plan)
-[Team Member Retention](/handbook/product/ux/performance-indicators/#team-member-retention)
### VP of Product Management
This role typically manages 4-6 direct reports, including Group Managers of Product Management, Directors of Product Management and Senior Directors of Product Management, and reports to the [Chief Product Officer](/job-description-library/product/chief-product-officer/).
