Key skills
GoRGitLabCI/CDLeadershipCommunicationCollaboration
About this role
Role Overview
- Lead multiple complex, cross-functional programs across GitLab's Engineering division and partner functions, owning scope, timelines, risks, and delivery from kickoff through retrospective.
- Coordinate dependencies across initiatives, surface blockers early, and keep stakeholders aligned on priorities, progress, and trade-offs.
- Partner with Engineering, Product, Finance, Legal, and Go-to-Market leaders to define clear program goals and milestones, and escalate risks with crisp recommendations.
- Establish and maintain program operating rhythms, including working group meetings, async updates, and status reporting that improve visibility into program health.
- Create and maintain program documentation, including decision logs, plans, and stakeholder updates, with an async-first approach that supports a fully remote team.
- Drive consistent execution by clarifying ownership, aligning on next steps, and following through on commitments across teams.
- Contribute to Technical Program Manager practices by documenting playbooks and templates in the GitLab handbook, and sharing learnings that improve how R&D programs run.
- Model GitLab's CREDIT values (Collaboration, Results, Efficiency, Diversity/Inclusion, Iteration, Transparency) in how you communicate, make decisions, and deliver outcomes.
Requirements
- Experience owning complex, cross-functional technical programs end-to-end, from scoping and kickoff through delivery and retrospective.
- Ability to build relationships and drive alignment across Engineering, Product, Finance, Legal, and Go-to-Market stakeholders, including senior leaders.
- Skill in establishing and maintaining program governance, including operating rhythms, status reporting, dependency tracking, and decision logs.
- Strong written communication and async-first collaboration habits, with a default to clear documentation and written updates.
- Analytical approach to identifying risks and dependencies, framing trade-offs, and presenting options and recommendations to stakeholders.
- Working knowledge of the software development lifecycle and how engineering teams plan and deliver work; familiarity with DevOps practices and CI/CD pipelines is helpful.
- Experience improving how programs run through playbooks, templates, retrospectives, and handbook documentation; transferable program leadership skills from adjacent roles are welcome.
Tech Stack
- Go
Benefits
- Benefits to support your health, finances, and well-being
- Flexible Paid Time Off
- Team Member Resource Groups
- Equity Compensation & Employee Stock Purchase Plan
- Growth and Development Fund
- Parental leave
- Home office support