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GitLab · 1 week ago

Senior Product Manager, Plan

United States

Full-time

Remote

Senior Level

GitLab is an open-core software company that develops an AI-powered DevSecOps Platform used by over 100,000 organizations. The Senior Product Manager will lead the Core Planning team to enhance how development teams organize and plan their work, focusing on integrating intelligent automation into planning workflows and improving team coordination at scale.

Cloud SecurityDeveloper ToolsDevOpsOpen SourceSaaS

Comp. & Benefits

Responsibilities

Lead the Core Planning team's vision and strategy, guiding GitLab's shift from traditional agile planning mechanics toward enterprise-ready planning fundamentals that empower teams to organize, coordinate, and execute work more effectively

Own the product strategy for work items—simplifying the fragmented landscape of issues, epics, and tickets into a configurable, unified primitive that scales across organizations of any size

Drive the integration of agentic AI functionalities into planning workflows, replacing manual planning tasks with intelligent automation while ensuring trustworthiness and reliability for end users

Collaborate cross-functionally with engineering, design, and product teams to understand developer and engineering manager needs, translating them into products that improve team coordination and workflow

Define how planning connects to business outcomes, helping teams understand the ROI of their work and make data-driven capacity and cycle-time decisions

Co-shape the product's approach to managing context and knowledge, ensuring critical business information and specifications flow seamlessly through the development lifecycle

Partner with the Knowledge & Context and Project Management teams within Plan stage to balance responsibilities and eliminate redundancy as the planning experience evolves in the SDLC

Qualification

SaaS product managementDevOps experienceAI integrationData-driven decision makingCollaboration with engineeringFresh perspectiveCommunicationAdaptability

Required

Experience building or shipping products for SaaS, DevOps, or DevSecOps platforms, or working in scale-ups in adjacent spaces

Working knowledge of software development and familiarity with how development teams organize and coordinate their work

Demonstrated ability to collaborate closely with engineering teams and use data and metrics to inform product decisions

Comfort learning quickly in new domains and adapting your approach and decision making based on new information, rather than relying primarily on past patterns

Track record of picking things up efficiently and getting productive in new product areas or organizations without extended onboarding periods

A mindset that values fresh perspectives and questioning existing approaches, even if you've worked in related spaces before

Experience working in distributed or remote environments, or collaborating with teams across different regions and time zones with excellent verbal and written communication skills