Director of Product Management – Platforms

GitLab

. Own the product direction and business outcomes for GitLab's SaaS environments: GitLab.com and GitLab Dedicated .

Posted 11/5/2026full-timeRemote • United States, CanadaLead💰 $203,200 - $345,600 per yearWebsite

Core Competencies

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Core Competencies

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Demonstrates expertise in product strategy and portfolio management for SaaS environments, with a strong focus on connecting product decisions to commercial outcomes and improving platform reliability and scalability. Proven ability to lead cross-functional teams and manage P&L for product lines.

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Product Portfolio ManagementSaaS Environment ExpertiseP&L OwnershipCloud Platform ExperienceCross-Functional Collaboration

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Hard Skills

Product StrategyPlatform ReliabilityScalability ImprovementsMonetization StrategiesOperational ImprovementsDisaster Recovery PlanningTechnical Product DirectionRate Limit DefinitionUsage Limit ManagementAI Adoption Experience

Soft Skills

LeadershipInfluencing SkillsCollaborationCommunication

Tools & Technologies

GitLabSwitchboard

Industry Keywords

SaaSCloud InfrastructureProduct ManagementBusiness OutcomesGross Margin

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

Cloud

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Own the product direction and business outcomes for GitLab's SaaS environments: GitLab.com and GitLab Dedicated
Set the product strategy and roadmap across GitLab.com and GitLab Dedicated, connecting platform capabilities to customer and business outcomes
Drive improvements in platform reliability, scalability, and operability, including better separation between customers and expansion of GitLab.com's cell-based architecture
Define GitLab.com's rate limits, usage limits, and related monetization approach
Scale GitLab Dedicated through maintenance-window automation and other operational improvements, while controlling costs and improving gross margin
Expand customer self-service through Switchboard, giving customers tools to monitor, observe, and operate their Dedicated tenants
Guide capabilities such as customer-initiated disaster recovery and geographic redundancy, and enable earlier access to beta features on GitLab Dedicated
Reduce the delay between GitLab releases and their availability on Dedicated
Own the business side of the portfolio as well as the technical product direction, developing P&L ownership for both platforms and helping establish GitLab.com as a P&L business
Collaborate across teams to deliver platform priorities

Requirements

What you’ll need

Experience leading a product portfolio at director level or with comparable scope, setting direction across multiple related products rather than a single roadmap
Technical product experience with cloud platforms, infrastructure, or SaaS environments, including the tradeoffs involved in reliability, scalability, and operations
Ability to connect product decisions to commercial outcomes, including monetization, operating costs, and gross margin
Experience translating complex platform challenges into product priorities and working across teams to deliver them
Ability to lead through product direction and influence in a director-level individual contributor role
Direct ownership of a product P&L is particularly valuable
Experience in an organization actively adopting artificial intelligence (AI) would also be helpful

Benefits

Comp & perks

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