Engineering Manager, Growth

Details

GitLab is the intelligent orchestration platform for DevSecOps. GitLab enables organizations to increase developer productivity, improve operational efficiency, reduce security and compliance risk, and accelerate digital transformation. More than 50 million registered users and more than 50% of the Fortune 100 trust GitLab to ship better, more secure software faster.

The same principles built into our products are reflected in how our team works: we embrace AI as a core productivity multiplier, with all team members expected to incorporate AI into their daily workflows to drive efficiency, innovation, and impact. GitLab is where careers accelerate, innovation flourishes, and every voice is valued. Our high-performance culture is driven by our values and continuous knowledge exchange, enabling our team members to reach their full potential while collaborating with industry leaders to solve complex problems.

Role overview

As Engineering Manager, Growth at GitLab, you’ll focus on building and enabling a high-performing team that helps users discover, activate, and expand value in GitLab. Growth’s mission is full-funnel: linking acquisition, activation, engagement, retention, and monetization into measurable self-serve loops, while using experimentation to improve how users experience the product.

Your primary focus will be to hire, coach, and develop team members, and to create an environment where they can do their best work while delivering strong results. You’ll partner closely with Product, Design, Data, and Engineering stakeholders to translate business goals, user journey insights, and experiment learnings into product improvements that help users realize value faster. You will foster a culture that challenges the status quo and leverages AI-native experimentation to find innovative solutions for our users.

You and your globally distributed team will work in an agile and asynchronous way, running experiments on GitLab.com, improving onboarding and discoverability, and streamlining paths that connect users to product value. Growth teams operate iteratively, across product areas, and use experimentation to make data-informed product choices.

Responsibilities

• Hire, guide, and enable a high-performing Growth engineering team, creating an environment where team members can do their best work and deliver strong results.
• Partner with Product Managers, Product Designers, Data counterparts, and other Engineering Managers to define and deliver improvements that increase discovery, activation, and expansion of value.
• Own delivery for your team: planning, prioritization, and execution across experiments and product improvements, turning learnings into measurable gains in conversion, engagement, and upgrade flows.
• Drive Growth’s operating model: guide experiment ideation, ICE-based prioritization, hypothesis development, and review of results to scale winning changes and stop low-impact work.
• Guide technical design and implementation of experiments and growth-oriented product changes, ensuring they are measured well and tied to activation, conversion, and retention outcomes.
• Collaborate across Growth and other stage groups when work touches areas owned by other teams, ensuring effective partnership and clear ownership boundaries.
• Engage in technical discussions and reviews to unblock complex issues and translate technical and experimental tradeoffs for technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Foster async communication and cross-functional operating rhythms with Product, Design, Analytics Instrumentation, Data, Customer Success, Sales, and other Growth counterparts.
• Drive the adoption of AI-native experimentation and workflows, identifying opportunities to use AI to accelerate user value delivery.

Requirements

• Experience managing product, growth, or development teams, with a track record of building high-performing, values-aligned teams.
• Strong technical background and ability to guide full-stack engineering work, architecture discussions, and pragmatic delivery in a product environment. Growth teams use full-stack engineering to move across frontend and backend needs.
• Experience working closely with Product, Design, and Data to deliver measurable outcomes through iteration, experimentation, and continuous improvement.
• Strong cross-functional collaboration skills in environments where work spans multiple product areas and stakeholder groups.
• Comfort working in a data-informed environment: prioritizing opportunities, evaluating experiment results, and helping teams make evidence-based choices.
• Ability to deep dive into complex technical and product issues and translate them into clear, actionable language for both technical and non-technical audiences.
• Experience managing remote, globally distributed teams and working effectively in an all-remote, asynchronous environment.
• Experience with developer tools and product-led growth, and ability to model GitLab’s values while contributing to an inclusive, high-performing culture.
• Demonstrated ability to challenge the status quo and creatively utilize AI-driven tools to solve complex product challenges.

About the team

The Growth stage focuses on scaling GitLab’s business value by assessing the customer journey from acquisition through activation, adoption, and reactivation, and by identifying the highest-ROI levers. Growth is cross-functional and works closely with Product, Design, Analytics Instrumentation, Data, Customer Success, Sales, and other product groups. Growth runs experiments on GitLab.com, uses common planning and operating processes, and works asynchronously to turn learnings into better user experiences and stronger business outcomes.

Compensation

United States Salary Range

$1 - $1 USD

(The base salary range shown is for residents of the United States only and reflects base salary rate; it does not include bonuses, equity, or benefits.)

How GitLab supports full-time employees / Benefits

• 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

Hiring guidelines, privacy & equal opportunity

GitLab hires new team members in countries around the world. All roles are remote, though some roles may carry location-based eligibility requirements. The Talent Acquisition team can help with location questions. Review GitLab's Recruitment Privacy Policy and EEO statements in the job posting for additional details.