Senior Product Manager, Create 🔥
This position is remote based.
We're looking for a senior product manager that can help us work on the future of developer tools. Specifically, building out our lovable support for GitLab by driving strategy around git, source code management, code review, and the developer experience.
We believe developers deserve an intuitive, single application that covers the entire DevOps lifecycle. We believe running tests is just the beginning of automation. We believe deploying your code should be automated and repeatable, and most of all, easy. We believe in pushing the boundaries of best-practices, and bringing these to every developer, so that doing the right thing is also the easy, default way of working.
We know there are a million things we can and want to improve about GitLab's support for the developer experience. It'll be your job to work out what we are going to do and how.
We have several PMs in the Create stage of the DevOps lifecycle. This role will be focused on extending the developer experiences available inside of GitLab. While we have listed Source Code and Code Review as lovable maturity, we believe there are tons of improvements and new areas to expand around the coding experience. The group of team members focused on improving these experiences is known as the Source Code group.
We work in quite a unique way at GitLab, where lots of flexibility and independence is mixed with a high paced, pragmatic way of working. And everything we do is in the open.
We recommend looking at our company page and the product handbook to get started.
Responsibilities
Drive the product in the right direction
Build an effective roadmap to prioritize important features properly
Take high-level feature proposals and customer problems and break them into small iterations that engineering can work on
Balance new features, improvements, and bugfixes to ensure a high velocity and a stable product
Consider the business impact, ROI, and other implications when taking important decisions
Make sound decisions for your product/stage, building trust, and driving clarity across all teams at GitLab and the community
Mastery of the competitive and market landscape of their product domain and understanding how this landscape impacts their own product roadmap
Ability to clearly document ROI or impact for a given action, feature, or prioritization action
Conduct advanced ROI analysis on investment cases to determine if GitLab should pursue them
Take an active role in defining the future
Contribute to the product vision, together with your section's Director of Product and VP of Product
Create and maintain a vision for your product area
Create and maintain the vision for each product category
Innovate within your product area by proposing ambitious features
Follow innovation in your product area
Communicate and evangelize your product vision internally and among the wider community
Mentors junior or less experienced Product Managers to quickly bring them up to speed and add value
Represents GitLab as a product and domain expert in front of Industry Analysts, customer visits, industry events/conferences, and other events.
Manage the product lifecycle end-to-end
Follow feature development end-to-end; provide guidance and feedback to engineers and designers; ensure everyone is aligned
Be the voice of the customer and the subject-matter expert for your group
Contribute to documentation, blog posts, demos, and marketing materials for product features
Collaborate with other Product Managers, UX, and engineers in cross-area features to build a single application
Manage the uncertainty in an efficient way, adjusting plans to new working conditions
Manage features and solutions that span multiple stages, and/or benefit other stages
Engage with stakeholders in two-way communication
Assist Sales, Support, Customer Success, and Marketing as the subject-matter expert for your area
Talk to customers and engage with the community regularly
Engage with analysts on briefings and product evaluations
Work with the entire Product team to share improvements and best practices
Have a strong presence in customer advisory boards and other customer feedback forums to fully understand customer pain points and how these can be solved in the future
Ability to present to C-level executives both internally at GitLab and externally to customers and prospects
You are not (solely) responsible for:
A team of engineers: you will take the lead in decisions about the product, but not manage the people implementing it
Capacity planning: you will define priorities, but the Engineering Manager evaluates the amount of work possible
Shipping in time: you will work in a group, but the group is responsible for shipping in time, not you
Requirements
5+ years product management experience
Excellent written and oral communication skills
Ability to think like a CEO to drive success of your product area
Fantastic problem solving skills and attention to detail
Strong understanding of Git and Git workflows
Knowledge of the developer tool space
Strong technically: you understand how software is built, packaged, and deployed
Passion for design and usability
Highly independent and pragmatic
Excellent proficiency in English
You are living wherever you want
You share our values, and work in accordance with those values
Strong understanding of DevOps and cloud-native application development
Bonus points: experience with Kubernetes and Docker
Bonus points: experience with GitLab
Bonus points: experience with GitHub, Phabricator, or Gerrit
Bonus points: experience in working with open source projects
Hiring Process
Selected candidates will be invited to schedule a screening call with our Global Recruiters
Selected candidates will be scheduled with a Product Manager for a Deep Dive
Next, selected candidates will meet with the Engineering Manager
Then, selected candidates will be scheduled with Director of Product for the role
Finally, selected candidates will be scheduled with the VP of Product
The compensation calculator for this role can be found here.