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As the Group Manager, Product, you will be responsible for managing and building a team that focuses on GitLab's Plan stage product categories. This role will lead the Plan Product Managers and reports to the VP of Product.
You will play a key role in defining our product strategy for our Plan stage which includes project management, product planning, knowledge management, and optimization tools. The focus right now is to mature all Plan categories Find out more about what it is like to be a PM at GitLab and what the current and future roadmap for Plan looks like here:
Product Manager Handbook page
Product Stage Vision - Plan
What you'll do
- Make sure you have a great product team (recruit and hire, sense of progress, promote proactively, identify underperformance)
- Work on the vision with the Product Leadership including VP of Product, Chief Product Officer and CEO; and communicate this vision internally and externally
- Distill the overall vision into a compelling roadmap
- Make sure the vision advances in every release and communicate this
- Communicate our vision through customer conversations, demos, blogging, and interviews
- Work closely with your stable counterparts in R&D including Engineering, UX and Quality along with stakeholders across Go to Market (Marketing, Sales, etc).
What you'll bring
- Experience leading a team of Product Managers
- Experience as a Product Manager with recognised achievements during your tenure as an IC
- Experience hiring teams in high-growth companies
- Experience in DevOps
- Experience as a user of a tool like Jira, Monday, Trello
- Technical background or clear understanding of work management and planning tools; familiarity with Agile methodologies, project management, knowledge management, and value stream optimization a plus
- You share our values and work in accordance with those values
- Additional requirements are outlined in our handbook
About the team
You will be leading a geographically distributed team of Product Managers while working closely with Engineering and UX counterparts. The team is focused on GitLab's Plan stage, which provides tools for teams to manage and optimize their work, track operational health, and measure outcomes across project management, product planning, knowledge management, and optimization capabilities.
How GitLab will support you
- Benefits to support your health, finances, and well-being
- All remote, asynchronous work environment
- Flexible Paid Time Off
- Team Member Resource Groups
- Equity Compensation & Employee Stock Purchase Plan
- Growth and Development Fund
- Parental leave
- Home office support
Please note that we welcome interest from candidates with varying levels of experience; many successful candidates do not meet every single requirement. Additionally, studies have shown that people from underrepresented groups are less likely to apply to a job unless they meet every single qualification. If you're excited about this role, please apply and allow our recruiters to assess your application.
The base salary range for this role’s listed level is currently for residents of listed locations only. Grade level and salary ranges are determined through interviews and a review of education, experience, knowledge, skills, abilities of the applicant, equity with other team members, and alignment with market data. See more information on our benefits and equity. Sales roles are also eligible for incentive pay targeted at up to 100% of the offered base salary.
California/Colorado/Hawaii/New Jersey/New York/Washington/DC/Illinois/Minnesota pay range
$145,600—$312,000 USD
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