- Company: GitLab
- Location: Remote, Canada
- Job type: Full-time
- Salary: $203,200 – $345,600 (US Salary Range)
- Deadline: Not specified
About the role
GitLab is seeking a Principal Product Manager to lead the vision, strategy, and roadmap for Orbit. Orbit is GitLab’s software lifecycle context graph, which connects source code and development data into a structured map of systems, relationships, and ownership. In this role, you will help engineers, leaders, and AI agents understand how teams build software and how changes impact surrounding systems.
You will shape Orbit from its underlying graph model through to customer value, pricing, and launch. This position combines technical product leadership with building a business around software lifecycle context. You will work within Anand Ahire’s product organization and collaborate with teams building GitLab Duo and the broader DevSecOps platform.
Responsibilities
- Define Orbit’s multi-year vision and roadmap, covering graph models, ingestion, query systems, and enterprise readiness.
- Translate complex platform opportunities into customer problems and measurable outcomes to guide investment decisions.
- Partner with Engineering and Design on architecture, data models, APIs, and scale.
- Use AI tools to investigate problems, explore code, prototype concepts, and review merge requests.
- Lead discovery with developers and technical executives to validate needs around dependencies, ownership, and change impact.
- Define target customers, use cases, and the path to product-market fit.
- Collaborate with Product Marketing, Sales, and Finance on positioning, pricing, and launch strategies.
- Develop business cases and track adoption, retention, and revenue outcomes.
- Mentor other product managers and represent GitLab’s product vision in industry conversations.
Requirements
- Experience owning complex technical products or platforms at Staff, Principal, or equivalent scope.
- Deep technical fluency in areas such as developer tools, DevOps, data platforms, knowledge graphs, or AI infrastructure.
- Ability to work credibly with engineers on architecture, data models, APIs, and security.
- Business judgment in market assessment, product strategy, pricing, and commercialization.
- Experience taking a product from early concept through launch and customer adoption.
- Customer-first approach with the ability to build trusted relationships with technical practitioners and executives.
- Clear written and verbal communication skills, with experience influencing across functions.
- Practical experience using AI tools in product work, including prototyping and code review.
Pay and benefits
The base salary range listed is $203,200 – $345,600 USD. Please note that the employer specifies this range is currently for residents of the United States only. The final salary is determined through interviews, review of experience, equity with other team members, market data, and geographic location.
GitLab offers the following benefits to full-time employees:
- Flexible Paid Time Off
- Team Member Resource Groups
- Equity Compensation & Employee Stock Purchase Plan
- Growth and Development Fund
- Parental Leave
How to apply
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