[Hiring] Staff Product Manager @GitLab

Role Description

As a Staff Product Manager for Planning at GitLab, you'll help answer how software planning looks when people and artificial intelligence agents work together. This role involves:

• Defining a clear direction for planning as software development shifts toward collaboration between people and AI agents.
• Shaping how users capture intent, break it into actionable work, and determine which work can proceed autonomously and which needs human involvement.
• Evaluating whether and how planning should connect software delivery to company priorities, business objectives, and budgets.
• Sharing ownership of planning capabilities, including work items, boards, specifications, and portfolio planning, with a fellow product manager.
• Working with engineering and design to translate product direction into a roadmap and improvements to planning workflows across GitLab.
• Communicating recommendations clearly to senior leaders, challenging assumptions constructively, and leading the team through changes in direction.

Qualifications

• Experience leading product strategy and execution for software development, developer tools, or planning products.
• A strong understanding of software development and DevOps workflows.
• The ability to form and defend a product point of view in an uncertain, changing market.
• Clear communication with technical teams and senior executives.
• The ability to connect a forward-looking strategy to practical product decisions.

Requirements

• Experience in product management, especially in software development and planning.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Ability to work collaboratively across product, engineering, and design teams.

Benefits

• Flexible Paid Time Off
• Team Member Resource Groups
• Equity Compensation & Employee Stock Purchase Plan
• Growth and Development Fund
• Parental Leave

Company Description

GitLab is the intelligent orchestration platform for DevSecOps, enabling organizations to increase developer productivity, improve operational efficiency, reduce security and compliance risk, and accelerate digital transformation. More than 50 million registered users and over 50% of the Fortune 100 trust GitLab to ship better, more secure software faster.

GitLab's mission is to enable everyone to contribute to and co-create the software that powers our world. Our platform brings software development, security, and operations together.