General Manager, Meltano

The general manager of Meltano is responsible for building a great product, a great user base and community, and a great team for the first open source platform for data integration and transformation (ELT).

Job Grade

Meltano is a separate company to GitLab, but for the purposes of Total Rewards, the General Manager of Meltano maps to a grade 10 in the GitLab grading structure.

Responsibilities

• Drive the development of Meltano, an open source convention-over-configuration product that initially focuses on data engineering and ELT, but may eventually expand to also cover analytics, business intelligence, and data science.
• Build a community of Meltano users that will guide future features.
• Build a community of developers that contribute code and documentation to Meltano and its plugins.
• Build a community of evangelists that talk about Meltano, share best practices and drive adoption.
• Manage Meltano website, documentation, and social channels and make sure everything is public by default.
• Communicate effectively both internally and externally to meet customer needs and expectations.
• Build and lead a team that will iteratively develop the product in collaboration with the community.
• After first driving awareness, adoption, and revenue yourself, hire and manage marketing and sales leaders.
• Monitor and analyze critical metrics (initially visits, downloads, usage, and community activity, and eventually conversion rate, incremental revenue, return on investment, cost analysis, return rate, etc.)
• Product planning: compare past and current usage and sales trends to shape future product features. Understand the competition and what feature will drive acquisition and reduce churn.
• Handle the budget for product development and hiring, and eventually sales and marketing.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in a technical field.
• Experience in open source software product development.
• Proven communication and leadership skills.
• Ability to meet deadlines, iterate and get results.
• Have initiative, resourcefulness, self-motivation, grit and a high level of ownership.
• Has seen 2x growth year over year in a team or startup in an executive role.
• Degree in computer science is a plus.
• Expertise in the field of data engineering and analytics is a plus.
• Masters degree or PhD in a technical field is a plus.
• Knowledge of GitLab, CI/CD, and Kubernetes is a plus.
• Knowledge of Python and SQL is a plus.
• Leadership at GitLab
• Ability to use GitLab

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