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An overview of this role
As the Principal Product Manager for GitLab’s AI-First Continuous Delivery capabilities, you’ll shape the product strategy and roadmap for how teams build, release, and deploy software with confidence in the AI era. This is a founding PM role on a strategic initiative—you’ll own what AI-native, enterprise-grade CD looks like, including AI agent deployment governance, compliance controls, Kubernetes and container deployments, and platform experiences that make deployment trustworthy at scale. You’ll lead with a strong point of view on how modern delivery is evolving in the age of AI, translating customer problems and market insights into clear product direction that helps teams move faster while maintaining reliability and control. You’ll operate with high autonomy while partnering closely with Engineering, UX, Product Design, Customer Success, and go-to-market teams to deliver meaningful outcomes for users and measurable business impact for GitLab. In your first year, you’ll launch the first version of GitLab AI-First CD, establish the customer feedback loops that inform the roadmap, and partner with Sales to drive revenue outcomes—you’ll own the business results of this initiative, not just the product decisions. This is the right role for a PM who thinks like a founder, thrives in ambiguity, and wants to build something that doesn’t exist yet — with a real chance to define a product category.
Some examples of our projects:
- Defining and delivering improvements to GitLab’s end-to-end Continuous Delivery experience, from continuous integration through release and deployment workflows.
- Partnering with Engineering and go-to-market teams to translate customer needs into a roadmap, clear requirements, and successful product rollouts.
What you’ll do
- Own the product strategy and full roadmap for GitLab AI-First CD, spanning AI agent deployment governance, compliance controls in highly regulated industries, Kubernetes and container deployments, and platform-level analytics and reporting.
- Develop a differentiated point of view on how the CD market is evolving in the AI era through direct customer engagement, field conversations, analyst relationships, and competitive intelligence.
- Partner closely with Engineering, UX, Product Design, and Quality to define problems, evaluate trade-offs, deliver improvements, and guide development and testing through delivery cycles.
- Work with Sales, Customer Success, Support, and Field teams to understand customer needs and adoption blockers, translate them into clear product requirements and release plans, and support customer-facing conversations.
- Define and track success metrics for your product area, run lightweight validations for new workflow ideas, and use customer feedback and product data to guide iteration and measure outcomes.
- Build strong cross-functional alignment across related GitLab stages and groups to deliver cohesive end-to-end experiences, connecting build, release, deploy, and environment workflows.
- Represent the Continuous Delivery product area internally and externally by communicating the roadmap, key decisions, and customer value in clear, straightforward language.
What you’ll bring
- Extensive product management experience owning complex, technical B2B SaaS and developer-facing platforms, with proven track record launching new products and translating customer needs into clear product strategy and measurable outcomes.
- A founder’s mindset: you create structure where none exists, make decisions with incomplete information, and take personal accountability for outcomes — not just outputs.
- Deep experience with CI/CD systems and deployment tooling, including building capabilities that improve pipeline reliability, performance, and usability at scale in enterprise environments.
- Comfort going deep with Engineering on implementation details when needed, including discussing technology trade-offs and their impact on product outcomes.
- Strong understanding of personas across the software delivery lifecycle—including developers, platform and DevOps engineers, engineering leaders, and release managers—and how they evaluate and adopt delivery tooling.
- Strong technical fluency— able to engage credibly with senior engineers on deployment architecture, AI-assisted workflows, Kubernetes, and platform integrations
- Highly analytical and data-driven approach: ability to synthesize qualitative feedback, product usage data, and market research into actionable insights and iterative improvements.
About the team
The Continuous Delivery team at GitLab builds and evolves the capabilities that help teams deliver software reliably and repeatedly, from continuous integration (CI) through deployment and release workflows. You’ll join a collaborative group of product managers who partner closely with Engineering, UX, Quality, Customer Success, Support, and Go-to-Market teams to understand customer needs, prioritize the right problems, and ship improvements that make GitLab a great place to build and deliver software.
The broader team works in a distributed, asynchronous way across regions, guided by GitLab’s values of transparency, iteration, and trusted empowerment. As a Principal Product Manager, Continuous Delivery, you’ll operate with high autonomy and significant cross-functional influence, helping align strategy across related stages of the software development lifecycle and driving clarity on priorities, outcomes, and what “great” looks like for customers using GitLab to deliver software at scale.
The base salary range for this role’s listed level is currently for residents of the United States only. This range is intended to reflect the role’s base salary rate in locations throughout the US. 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, alignment with market data, and geographic location. The base salary range does not include any bonuses, equity, or benefits. 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.
United States Salary Range$145,600—$312,000 USD
How GitLab will support you
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