Group Manager, Product: Analytics

GitLab is an open core software company that develops the most comprehensive AI-powered DevSecOps Platform, used by more than 100,000 organizations. Our mission is to enable everyone to contribute to and co-create the software that powers our world. When everyone can contribute, consumers become contributors, significantly accelerating the rate of human progress. This mission is integral to our culture, influencing how we hire, build products, and lead our industry. We make this possible at GitLab by running our operations on our product and staying aligned with our values. Learn more about Life at GitLab.

Thanks to products like Duo Enterprise, and Duo Workflow, customers get the benefit of AI at every stage of the SDLC. The same principles built into our products are reflected in how our team works: we embrace AI as a core productivity multiplier. All team members are encouraged and expected to incorporate AI into their daily workflows to drive efficiency, innovation, and impact across our global organisation.

As Group Manager of Product for GitLab's Analytics stage, you'll lead a high-impact team focused on transforming how organizations leverage data insights throughout their DevSecOps lifecycle. Reporting directly to the VP of Product, you'll collaborate with Data and Analytics functions across the business to drive strategic vision and execution.

In this role, you'll shape our product strategy for GitLab's comprehensive Analytics ecosystem—encompassing how we collect, process, store, manage, and visualize data through our unified data insights platform. You'll ensure our architecture maintains exceptional performance as GitLab scales, establishing a robust foundation for enterprise-level data exploration.

Your leadership will not only empower GitLab team members to make data-driven decisions but will also unlock powerful insights for our customers, helping them optimize their DevSecOps workflows and accelerate feature development. Your work directly impacts how organizations understand and improve their software delivery performance at scale.

You can read more about this area here: Data Insights Platform

What You'll Do

Build & Develop an Elite Product Team

• Attract, recruit, and retain exceptional product talent in a competitive market
• Design personalized growth trajectories with your team members, balancing individual aspirations with company needs
• Provide timely, candid feedback and decisive coaching to address performance gaps

Drive Strategic Vision & Execution

• Architect and champion the Analytics stage vision, ensuring perfect alignment with GitLab's strategic objectives
• Collaborate closely with executive leadership (VP of Product, CPO, CTO, CEO) to shape product direction
• Transform high-level vision into actionable, prioritized roadmaps with clear milestones and dependencies

Deliver Exceptional Customer Value

• Leverage data insights and customer feedback to guide product decisions and measure success
• Maintain unwavering focus on quality while balancing velocity and innovation
• Consistently translate customer challenges into valuable product solutions

Lead Cross-Functional Integration

• Orchestrate technical alignment across Analytics components and throughout the DevSecOps lifecycle
• Eliminate silos by fostering deep collaboration with Engineering, UX, Quality, Data, Legal, and Go-to-Market teams
• Identify product overlap opportunities and facilitate cross-team solutions

Champion Product Evangelism

• Articulate the Analytics vision through compelling customer conversations, documentation, and demonstrations
• Create internal momentum through showcases, blog posts, and knowledge-sharing initiatives
• Develop comprehensive GitLab product expertise to identify integration opportunities and strategic advantages

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 DevSecOps
• Experience with large scale data platforms, and customer-facing data/analytics products
• Understanding of the competitive landscape for data analytics, with a focus on DevSecOps best practices and AI-driven workflows
• Technical background or clear understanding of data movement systems from instrumentation, ingestion, storage, processing/transformation, and analytical presentation layer.
• 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 Analytics section, which covers the instrumentation, collection, processing, transformation and presentation of GitLab’s platform data for use by internal team members and customers alike. .

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.