Posted almost 5 years ago
As the Director of Product, you will be responsible for managing and building the team that focuses on a subset of GitLab's product categories. The Director of Product, Sec leads the Sec parts of the DevOps lifecycle and reports to the Head of Product.
Individual responsibility
- Make sure you have a great product team (recruit and hire, sense of progress, promote proactively, identify underperformance)
- Work on the vision with the Head of Product, VP of Product, 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 though demo's, conference speaking, blogging, and interviews
- Work closely with Product Marketing, Sales, Engineering, etc.
Team responsibility
- Ensure that the next milestone contains the most relevant items to customers, users, and us
- Work with customers, users, and other teams to make feature proposals enticing, actionable, and small
- Make sure the comparisons are up to date
- Keep /direction up to date as our high level roadmap
- Regularly join customer and partner visits that can lead to new features
- Ensure that we translate user demands in features that make them happy but keep the product UI clean and the codebase maintainable
- Make sure the release announcements are attractive and cover everything
- Be present on social media (hacker news, twitter, stack overflow, mailinglist), especially around releases
Requirements
- 3-5 years experience in managing product managers
- 8-10 years of experience in product management
- Technical background and clear understanding of developer products; familiarity with Git, Continuous Integration, and Project Management software a plus
- Experience with DevOps
- Experience with Docker and Kubernetes
- You share our values, and work in accordance with those values
- Leadership at GitLab
Hiring Process
- Candidates will be invited to a 30 minute screening call with a member of our Recruiting team
- Candidates will then be invited to a 45 minute interview with one of our Product Managers
- Candidates will then be invited to a 45 minute interview with one of our Directors of Product
- Candidates will then be invited to a 45 minute interview with one of our Directors of Engineering
- Candidates will then be invited to a 45 minute interview with the Head of Product
- Candidates may then be invited to a 2-hour deep-dive session
- Candidates may be invited to a final 50 minute interview with our CEO
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