Everyone truly does mean everyone
Action puts intentionality into how we attract, progress, and retain our team members, engage with our customers, and diversify the open source community.
We aspire to create a workplace that looks like the customers and communities we serve. Our actions and accountability are key to our progress year after year. To do that, we focus on improving our hiring and progression representation of our gender and ethnic-underrepresented groups through inclusive practices that increase our sense of belonging for all of our team members- in line with anti-discrimination principles in each of our locations.*
*Due to data collection limitations, this is not an exhaustive list of all of our underrepresented groups (those with disabilities, those who identify as LGBTQIA+, those who choose not to disclose, etc).
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Male
0%
Female
0%
Non-binary
0%
Prefer not to say
0%
0%
0%
5%
Two or more races
66%
White
12%
Asian
9%
Hispanic
5%
Black
1%
Native Hawaiian/Other Pacific Islander
4%
Not specified
0%
0%
0%
United States
Canada
Europe, Middle East, and Africa
Japan and Asia-Pacific
Latin America (LATAM)
0%
0%
0%
Source: GitLab's People Analytics Team, WorkDay Of Note: Management refers to Team Members who are People Managers, whereas Leadership denotes Team Members who are in Director-level positions and above.
All data is 2023-02-01 to 2024-01-31
Our team members are critical to our success. We provide pathways for them to thrive individually and as a part of the GitLab community.
Discover how GitLab's Team Member Resource Groups (TMRGs) are cultivating an inclusive workplace and empowering our employees by fostering a supportive environment where everyone can thrive. Our TMRGs are open to all team members, not just those who specifically identify with a particular group.
Groups who share common interests and work together to drive change on behalf of the community through education, action, and enablement across a specific need.
Geared toward collecting feedback on pertinent elements such as Company Culture, Teamwork, Management and Inclusion. In turn, it provides leadership with insight into what is important to improve the team member experience.
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Overall engagement score
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Unfavorable
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Report:
"I really enjoy engaging with my peers"
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"It's easy to ask other members of your team for help"
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"I am proud to work for GitLab"
From education to mentorship, sponsorship, and advocacy, GitLab educates its leaders, provides resources for its team members, and holds its leaders accountable so that team members can utilize the community they are surrounded by every day.
VP+ leaders who volunteer to support, advocate and connect the community to our shared GitLab mission and vision and other E-Group leaders
A strategic group of senior leaders who assist the DIB team in implementing and aligning the strategy to each division’s strategic imperatives
VP+ leaders advocate, provide visibility, and guidance to our team members.
I am deeply honored to be part of the Leadership DIB Council because emphasizing diversity within our team not only enriches our perspectives but also equips us to better understand and meet the varied needs of our global customer base. When I think about my own career, this is the sort of impact I want to be known for."
Sherrod Patching
GitLab VP Customer Success & Leadership DIB Council Member
Managers at GitLab enable our mission by empowering our team members to do their best work. We need to equip our people leaders with the skills to lead globally dispersed, all-remote teams to support our business growth at scale. Our leadership training ensures that Diversity, Inclusion & Belonging is considered and threaded throughout the team member experience.
Our manager and leadership courses include:
Manager training
Director+ Inclusive leadership training
Continuous learning for Elevate graduates
Partnerships are a great way for GitLab to engage with the community externally, provide opportunities for career development and networking for our team members, and also add layers of Diversity, Inclusion & Belonging to key areas of our organization. For example, working with Coding Black Females to increase the diversity of our open source developer contributors or access to supplier diversity portals with Disability:In, has proven invaluable in ensuring that we are able to live our DIB Value in as many areas of our organization as possible. They are also how we measure our inclusive practices against industry standards and can act as accountability partners in achieving success.
We sponsor and support events worldwide that promote inclusion and belonging, creating learning and growth opportunities for our team. By networking with diverse talent at these events, we infuse our team with fresh perspectives and ideas.
Reflecting on a year of impactful partnerships, we are inspired to further foster spaces where technology and diverse talent converge, giving everyone a voice. Learn more about our External Engagement strategy in our Handbook.
Throughout the year, the DIB and Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) teams collaborate to give back to the communities we serve by offering volunteer opportunities to team members, working with TMRGs to donate funds to relevant nonprofits, and providing in-kind donations through the GitLab for Nonprofits Program.
This Team Member Resource Group (TMRG) focused on promoting the personal and professional development of Black team members, donated to /dev/color, the global career accelerator for Black software engineers, technologists, and executives.
This TMRG helps women at GitLab advance their skills and leadership potential, and they also donated to Women Who Code, a national organization focused on empowering women to excel in technology careers.
This TMRG provides a safe space to celebrate Latin American culture and raise awareness around their contributions to GitLab’s strategic objectives. Gente donated funds to the Nuevo Foundation, an organization that exposes kids to STEM.
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4
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GitLab is dedicated to supporting charitable organizations with missions that align with our company's values through the GitLab Foundation. Its vision is a world in which one million more people can afford a better life.
Because we believe everyone can contribute, the GitLab Foundation is supporting people to grow their lifetime earnings through education, training, access to opportunities, and systems change on a global scale. We fund work that delivers 100x returns, and work that transforms people’s lives by increasing their earnings. By staying informed, volunteering with our grantees, and/or donating to the GitLab Foundation, you are helping to improve people's lives."
Ellie Bertani
CEO & President, GitLab Foundation
When we think about diversity, inclusion, and belonging, it's easy to see it only from a team member perspective. Our goal is to bring inclusivity to as many touch points as possible—from our open source contributors to how we engage with our customers and users.
The Drupal Association is proud to be reinforcing our longstanding commitment to diversity, equity, inclusion, and justice by partnering with CHAOSS and GitLab right at the launch of this initiative. We believe this metric-driven approach will help projects reinforce each other's good behavior, and inspire the industry as a whole."
Tim Lehnen
CTO, Drupal Association
At GitLab, we build understanding, empathy, and allyship around accessibility. We do this through various methods, including Digital Accessibility Training, Webinars, and Workshops, to ensure that our Product and Engineering teams are equipped with the skills necessary to make our product more accessible.
We followed through on our commitments and accomplished so much in 2023. We still have work to do. We are continuing to build DIB into every part of GitLab both internally with our team members and to our customers, partners, and open source community.
We have set an aspirational goal to double the number of suppliers categorized as diverse. To achieve this goal we are engaging partners, strategically embedding diversity, inclusion and belonging practices into our procurement process, and evaluating our current suppliers' practices in line with applicable anti-discrimination principles.
Extend our representation of team members from our Disabilities, Neurodivergence and LGBTQIA+ communities. We are working with several partners to help us achieve this goal including but not limited to, Unicorns in Tech, Disability:IN, and Anita B.Org. Visit this Handbook page to learn more about how we select partners and measure success in attracting team members from these communities.
Our mission is to attract, acquire, and activate talent to unlock their potential, connecting learning agility with employment opportunities, decoupled from academic-based prerequisites. This is anchored in the belief that building a balanced workforce will enable GitLab to scale effectively and inclusively, and that building a strong foundation today will greatly impact our future growth.
Inclusive leadership is integrated into leadership development experiences and offered as voluntary resources to promote ongoing education and awareness. These experiences span all front-line and aspiring leaders in addition to VP and E-Group populations.
