Principal Product Manager, AI Software Factory

WHAT YOU’LL DO

• Define the product vision and strategy for GitLab’s end-to-end software factory experience.
• Bring together planning, specification, coding, review, and verification workflows into a cohesive product experience.
• Partner with product, engineering, design, and go-to-market teams across GitLab to align priorities and execution.
• Identify gaps, dependencies, and opportunities across GitLab Duo Agent Platform and related areas of the GitLab product.
• Use strong product and design judgment to make complex workflows clear and useful for customers.
• Build support for product decisions through clear communication, negotiation, and cross-functional collaboration.
• Present product direction, tradeoffs, and recommendations to senior and executive leaders.
• Help shape how GitLab brings its software factory vision to market.

WHAT YOU’LL BRING

• Product management experience at principal scope, leading complex products or experiences across multiple teams.
• A strong understanding of the end-to-end software development workflow, from planning through verification.
• Experience with artificial intelligence products, developer tools, DevSecOps platforms, or related technical products.
• Technical judgment that supports effective collaboration with engineering teams and informed product decisions.
• Strong product design and user experience instincts, including the ability to connect separate capabilities into a coherent experience.
• Experience influencing across functions, resolving competing priorities, and moving work forward without relying on direct authority.
• Clear communication and presentation skills, including experience working with senior and executive leaders.
• An ownership mindset and the ability to make progress in a fast-changing product area with some ambiguity.

We welcome candidates with different backgrounds and transferable experience. If this role excites you, we encourage you to apply even if you don’t meet every qualification.

ABOUT THE TEAM

This role will work across GitLab to connect the teams building the future of our AI-powered DevSecOps platform. You’ll partner closely with the GitLab Duo Agent Platform organization and with product areas that own key parts of the software development workflow. The team’s central challenge is to turn work delivered across several groups into one clear, end-to-end experience for customers while supporting GitLab’s mission to enable everyone to contribute to and co-create the software that powers our world.

HOW GITLAB SUPPORTS FULL-TIME EMPLOYEES

• Benefits to support your health, finances, and well-being
• Flexible Paid Time Off
• Team Member Resource Groups
• Equity Compensation & Employee Stock Purchase Plan
• Growth and Development Fund
• Parental Leave

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.

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