The VP of Incubation Engineering runs the Incubation Engineering Department within the Engineering Division. The team members in this department focus on long-term trends and features that are too early to measure via usage or revenue, but are critical to the long term growth and success of GitLab. The projects this department works on align with the "new markets" investment type. Long term, the budget for this area will be ~10% of R&D. This position reports to our Chief Technical Officer.
Q&A with the CEO
While watching this video, keep in mind that this position and department was previously named "New Markets" instead of "Incubation Engineering".
Excellent verbal & written (async) communication skills
Demonstrated longevity and perseverance at a fast-growing organization
Be effective in an all-remote setting
Humility
Nice-to-have Requirements
We'd like the successful candidate to have at least a simple majority of the following attributes:
Extensive familiarity with the GitLab project and application
Prior success at startup or entrepreneurial organizations
Experience at multiple product-oriented technology companies
Experience growing a company to massive scale
Prior developer platform or tool industry experience
Experience working with people around the globe
Extensive open-source work
Demonstrate curiosity for new topics and domains
About GitLab
GitLab Inc. is a company based on the GitLab open-source project. GitLab is
a community project to which over 2,200 people worldwide have contributed.
We are an active participant in this community, trying to serve its needs
and lead by example. We have one vision: everyone can
contribute to all digital content, and our mission is to change all creative
work from read-only to read-write so that everyone can contribute.
We value results, transparency, sharing, freedom,
efficiency, self-learning, frugality, collaboration, directness, kindness, diversity, inclusion and belonging,
boring solutions, and quirkiness. If these values match your personality,
work ethic, and personal goals, we encourage you to visit our
primer to learn more. Open source is our culture, our way of
life, our story, and what makes us truly unique.
Top 10 reasons to work for GitLab:
Work with helpful, kind, motivated, and talented people.
Work remote so you have no commute and are free to travel and move.
Have flexible work hours so you are there for other people and free to plan
the day how you like.
Everyone works remote, but you don't feel remote. We don't have a head
office, so you're not in a satellite office.
Work on open source software so you can interact with a large community and
can show your work.
Work on a product you use every day: we drink our own wine.
Work on a product used by lots of people that care about what you do.
As a company we contribute more than we take, most of our work is released
as the open source GitLab CE.
Focused on results, not on long hours, so that you can have a life and
don't burn out.
Open internal processes: know what you're getting in to and be assured
we're thoughtful and effective.