Principal Product Manager, AI Custom Models

GitLab is the intelligent orchestration platform for DevSecOps. As a Principal Product Manager, you will shape GitLab's AI product direction, focusing on custom models and self-hosted AI experiences, while collaborating with engineering and design to deliver a strong product roadmap.

Responsibilities:

• Lead product strategy and roadmap definition for custom models and self-hosted AI capabilities within GitLab
• Drive discovery, prioritization, and delivery for features that support model flexibility, self-managed deployments, and AI agent orchestration use cases
• Collaborate closely with engineering, design, and other product leaders to turn complex customer and technical needs into clear product direction
• Define product requirements that account for infrastructure, configuration, deployment, and hardware considerations in self-hosted environments
• Partner with internal stakeholders across GitLab AI initiatives to ensure this product area fits into the broader platform strategy
• Guide tradeoff decisions with a strong focus on customer value, technical feasibility, and long-term platform quality
• Support knowledge transfer and continuity as the team grows and evolves, helping new work move forward with context and clarity
• Communicate plans, decisions, and priorities in a transparent way that helps distributed teams execute asynchronously

Requirements:

• Experience owning product strategy for technical platform, infrastructure, or AI-driven products
• Knowledge of AI model ecosystems, including custom model options, open models, or open weight models, and the product decisions involved in supporting them
• Familiarity with self-hosted or self-managed software and the operational needs of customers running software in their own environments
• Ability to work effectively with engineers on topics such as configuration, infrastructure, deployment patterns, and hardware-related constraints
• Experience leading complex product work with multiple stakeholders and making clear decisions in areas with technical ambiguity
• Skill in written and verbal communication, with the ability to explain product direction clearly in a distributed, asynchronous environment
• Judgment to operate at principal scope, with ownership across strategy, execution, and cross-functional alignment
• Openness to bringing transferable experience from adjacent areas such as DevSecOps, developer platforms, infrastructure software, or applied AI products