This job family represents all Managers in the Product Management department. They are responsible for managing, directly or indirectly GitLab team members performing in the role of Product Manager. These roles are responsible for managing and building teams which focus on specific specialties as part of GitLab's product hierarchy (sometimes encompassing entire stages or a section).
This role typically manages 2-4 Product Managers, and reports either to a Director of Product, a Senior Director of Product Management or the VP of Product.
The Group Manager, Product is a grade 9.
Team responsibilities
Please note: If the Group Manager has less than 4 direct reports or is a first-time manager, some individual contributor responsibilities may be expected to be maintained.
Requirements are outlined in the Product Management Career Development Framework
The next step in the Group Manager, Product is to move to Director of Product.
Are responsible for managing the team of product managers covering the Verify stage groups. Leading the Verify direction is a high impact position. Works with your team to ensure our industry-leading CI continues to be a critical entry-point to our single devops platform. Work cross functionally as an expert and invest in your team of high caliber product managers to make sure our R&D investment in Verify is as effective as possible in fulfilling our mission to enable everyone to contribute.
The GMP for Verify:Runner is responsible for supporting our Runner product groups functional management and vision. Leading the direction as an individual contributor for the categories of Runner Core and Runner Fleet while supporting the Product Manager over Runner SaaS, is an high visibility and mission-critical role. You will be working across two product groups to accelerate our Verify stage direction growth and influence our SaaS Platforms direction via the implementation of our Automated Software Delivery solution. Investing in your team to curate Product Management excellence to effectively enable our position of being the One DevOps Platform.
Responsible for the Geo, Global Search, Memory, and Database groups. These groups ensure GitLab can meet customer business continuity requirements, is performant at all scales, and enables users to find the content they are looking for in our single platform.
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Responsible for leading the team of PMs who manage the ModelOps stage groups. This stage leader sets the vision and direction for how to empower GitLab users to leverage data science as part of their DevOps program—both by enabling users to build and run data science workloads, as well as by enriching existing GitLab product functionality with capabilities powered by machine learning. This individual will lead an expansion of GitLab’s core personas to address the needs of data science teams and will work cross-functionality with other GitLab stages in leveraging machine learning to deepen our core differentiators. This individual will be responsible for developing new revenue-generating products as well as enhancing existing products used by millions of users across the world.
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Responsible for leading the team of PMs who manage the Secure stage groups. This stage leader sets the vision and direction for how to enable GitLab users to minimize their security risk with continuous identification and prioritization of high-impact vulnerabilities and weaknesses across every stage of the DevOps process. This scope includes identifying, prioritizing, and managing security research requirements across the entire Sec section and working with GitLab's Vulnerability Research team to prioritize those requirements. The Secure GMP works hand in hand with the Govern stage leader to ensure that their teams, together, are providing a holistic and world-class user experience across all of GitLab's security & compliance offerings.
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Responsible for leading the team of PMs who manage the Govern stage groups. This stage leader sets the vision and direction for how to enable GitLab users with an effective, scalable, and lovable security and compliance solution. This individual also maintains and champions GitLab's Software Supply Chain Security (SSCS) direction and coordinates execution of the SSCS roadmap across all GitLab stages. The Govern GMP works hand in hand with the Secure stage leader to ensure that their teams, together, are providing a holistic and word-class user experience across all of GitLab's security & compliance offerings.
Requirements
Candidates for this position can generally expect the hiring process to follow the order below. Note that as candidates indicate preference or aptitude for one or more specialties, the hiring process will be adjusted to suit. Please keep in mind that candidates can be declined from the position at any stage of the process.
This role typically manages 4-6 direct reports, including Product Managers and Group Managers of Product Management, and reports to either a Senior Director of Product Management or the VP of Product.
The Director, Product Management is a grade 10.
Team responsibility
Requirements for the role are outlined as part of the Product Career Development Framework.
The next step for a Director of Product Management is to move to Senior Director of Product Management.
The Director of Product Management, Dev is the PM DRI for the Dev parts of the DevOps lifecycle (e.g Manage, Plan and Create) Stages) and reports to the VP of Product.
The Director of Product Management, Sec is the PM DRI for the Secure and Govern parts of the DevOps lifecycle and reports to the VP of Product.
The Director of Product, Growth is the PM DRI for the Growth parts of the DevOps lifecycle and reports to the Senior Director of Product Monetization.
The Director of Product Management, Enablement is the PM DRI for the Enablement parts of the DevOps lifecycle and reports to the VP of Product.
Responsible for the Fulfillment product team, which owns delivering a flexible and powerful billing and licensing system. Has the opportunity to work cross-functionally to ensure the billing and licensing system meets our evolving business needs and delivers a world class customer experience.
Requirements
Candidates for this position can generally expect the hiring process to follow the order below. Note that as candidates indicate preference or aptitude for one or more specialties, the hiring process will be adjusted to suit. Please keep in mind that candidates can be declined from the position at any stage of the process.
This role typically manages 4-6 direct reports, including Product Managers, Group Managers of Product Management, and Directors of Product Management, and reports to the VP of Product.
The Senior Director, Product Management is a grade 11.
The next step in the Product Management Leadership job family is to move to the VP of Product Management job family.
The Senior Director of Product Management, Ops is the PM DRI for the Ops parts of the DevOps lifecycle (e.g. Monitor, Configure, Verify, Package, and Release) and reports to the VP of Product.
The Senior Director of Product Management, Monetization & Operations is the PM DRI for Fulfillment, Pricing, Product Operations, and Product Analysis and reports to the VP of Product.
Candidates for this position can generally expect the hiring process to follow the order below. Note that as candidates indicate preference or aptitude for one or more specialties, the hiring process will be adjusted to suit. Please keep in mind that candidates can be declined from the position at any stage of the process.
This role typically manages 4-6 direct reports, including Group Managers of Product Management, Directors of Product Management and Senior Directors of Product Management, and reports to the Chief Product Officer.
The VP of Product Management is a grade 12.
Candidates for this position can expect the hiring process to follow the order below. Please keep in mind that candidates can be declined from the position at any stage of the process. To learn more about someone who may be conducting the interview, find their job title on our team page.
The VP of Product Management - Ops & Analytics is the PM DRI for the Ops and Analytics Sections which include:
The Senior Director of Product Monetization reports to the VP of Product.
The Senior Director of Product Monetization is a grade 11.
Candidates for this position can expect the hiring process to follow the order below. Please keep in mind that candidates can be declined from the position at any stage of the process. To learn more about someone who may be conducting the interview, find their job title on our team page.
Additional details about our process can be found on our hiring page.
Product Leadership is responsible for building the capacity and capability of their team and the groups they support to achieve:
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