Managers in the engineering department at GitLab see the team as their product. While they are technically credible and know the details of what developers work on, their time is spent hiring a world-class team and putting them in the best position to succeed. They own the delivery of product commitments and are always looking to improve productivity. They must also coordinate across departments to accomplish collaborative goals.

The Secure Team (previously known as the Security Products Team) is responsible for the security checks features in the GitLab platform. Read more about our Secure Product team to get a better sense of the projects we deliver.

This is a remote only position.

Responsibilities

• Help your developers grow their skills and experience
• Author project plans for epics
• Run agile project management processes
• Conduct code reviews, and make technical contributions to product architecture as well as getting involved in solving bugs and delivering small features
• Actively seek and hire globally-distributed talent
• Conduct managerial interviews for candidates, and train the team to screen candidates
• Contribute to the sense of psychological safety on your team
• Generate and implement process improvements
• Hold regular 1:1's with all members their team
• Foster technical decision making on the team, but make final decisions when necessary
• Author project plans for epics
• Draft quarterly OKRs
• Run agile project management process
• Train engineers to screen candidates and conduct managerial interviews
• Improve product quality, security, and performance

Requirements

• Exquisite communication: Regularly achieve consensus amongst departments
• 5 years or more experience in a leadership role with current technical experience
• In-depth experience with Ruby on Rails, Go, and/or Git
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• You share our values, and work in accordance with those values
• Leadership at GitLab

Nice-to-have's

• Security product company experience
• Experience in a peak performance organization
• Deep Ruby on Rails experience
• Product company experience
• Startup experience
• Enterprise software company experience
• Computer science education or equivalent experience
• Passionate about open source and developer tools