Minorities in Tech Mentoring Program: Projects

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• Minorities in Tech Mentoring Program 2020 Projects
  • Engineering
  • Finance
  • Marketing
  • Sales
  • Diversity, Inclusion, & Belonging (DIB)

Minorities in Tech Mentoring Program 2020 Projects

This year our Mentor / Mentee pairs collaborated on the following projects:

Engineering

• Sharing GitLab's organization practices outside of Gitlab (WINNER)
• Refine inactive bugs backlog
• A knowledge base and framework for engineering manages to share ideas

Finance

• Improving Financial Forecasting (WINNER)
• Should GitLab provide data residency for EU customers

Marketing

• Create a sales portal in order to track the customer journey and increase sales efficiency (WINNER)
• Increase the feedback loop between Field Sales and Product Management
• How to improve the relationship between Field Marketing and Mid Market sales
• How to improve the GitLab handbook
• Comparing Open Source strategies vs. GitHub and how to improve

Sales

• Increasing newly hired SAE's performance and reducing their churn
• A cross fuctional shadow program for leadership development
• LATAM Growth and expansion plan
• Creating a GitLab customer referral program (WINNER)

Diversity, Inclusion, & Belonging (DIB)

• Improving the use of misused terms
• How to increase from 34 to 100 African American employees in 18 months
• Improve detection of inclusive candidates in interview process
• To increase the percentage of diversity hires at GitLab through a rotational internship program (WINNER)