Principal Product Manager, AI Software Factory

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Cloud • Security • Software • Cybersecurity • Automation
The intelligent orchestration platform for DevSecOps
The Role
Lead product vision and strategy for an end-to-end AI-powered software factory. Integrate planning, coding, review, and verification across GitLab Duo Agent Platform and product areas. Collaborate with engineering, design, and GTM teams, identify gaps and dependencies, present recommendations to executives, and drive execution to deliver cohesive developer workflows.
Summary Generated by Built In

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. Co-create the future with us as we build technology that transforms how the world develops software.

*Fortune 500® is a registered trademark of Fortune Media IP Limited, used under license. Claim based on GitLab data. Fortune 100 refers to the top 20% ranked companies in the 2025 Fortune 500 list, published in June 2025. Fortune and Fortune Media IP Limited are not affiliated with, and do not endorse products or services of GitLab.

An overview of this role

As Principal Product Manager, Software Factory, you’ll define and bring together GitLab’s end-to-end software creation experience, from planning and specification through coding, review, and verification. You’ll connect capabilities across GitLab Duo Agent Platform and the wider GitLab product so customers have a cohesive and delightful experience. This is a senior, high-visibility role for a product leader who can shape product direction, work across organizational boundaries, and clearly present recommendations to executive leaders.

What you’ll do
  • Define the product vision and strategy for GitLab’s end-to-end software factory experience.
  • Bring together planning, specification, coding, review, and verification workflows into a cohesive product experience.
  • Partner with product, engineering, design, and go-to-market teams across GitLab to align priorities and execution.
  • Identify gaps, dependencies, and opportunities across GitLab Duo Agent Platform and related areas of the GitLab product.
  • Use strong product and design judgment to make complex workflows clear and useful for customers.
  • Build support for product decisions through clear communication, negotiation, and cross-functional collaboration.
  • Present product direction, tradeoffs, and recommendations to senior and executive leaders.
  • Help shape how GitLab brings its software factory vision to market.
What you’ll bring
  • Product management experience at principal scope, leading complex products or experiences across multiple teams.
  • A strong understanding of the end-to-end software development workflow, from planning through verification.
  • Experience with artificial intelligence products, developer tools, DevSecOps platforms, or related technical products.
  • Technical judgment that supports effective collaboration with engineering teams and informed product decisions.
  • Strong product design and user experience instincts, including the ability to connect separate capabilities into a coherent experience.
  • Experience influencing across functions, resolving competing priorities, and moving work forward without relying on direct authority.
  • Clear communication and presentation skills, including experience working with senior and executive leaders.
  • An ownership mindset and the ability to make progress in a fast-changing product area with some ambiguity.

We welcome candidates with different backgrounds and transferable experience. If this role excites you, we encourage you to apply even if you don’t meet every qualification.

About the team

This role will work across GitLab to connect the teams building the future of our AI-powered DevSecOps platform. You’ll partner closely with the GitLab Duo Agent Platform organization and with product areas that own key parts of the software development workflow. The team’s central challenge is to turn work delivered across several groups into one clear, end-to-end experience for customers while supporting GitLab’s mission to enable everyone to contribute to and co-create the software that powers our world.


How GitLab Supports Full-Time Employees
  • 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 

Please note that we welcome interest from candidates with varying levels of experience; many successful candidates do not meet every single requirement. Additionally, studies have shown that people from underrepresented groups are less likely to apply to a job unless they meet every single qualification. If you're excited about this role, please apply and allow our recruiters to assess your application.

Country Hiring Guidelines: GitLab hires new team members in countries around the world. All of our roles are remote, however some roles may carry specific location-based eligibility requirements. Our Talent Acquisition team can help answer any questions about location after starting the recruiting process.  

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GitLab is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and is an affirmative action employer. GitLab’s policies and practices relating to recruitment, employment, career development and advancement, promotion, and retirement are based solely on merit, regardless of race, color, religion, ancestry, sex (including pregnancy, lactation, sexual orientation, gender identity, or gender expression), national origin, age, citizenship, marital status, mental or physical disability, genetic information (including family medical history), discharge status from the military, protected veteran status (which includes disabled veterans, recently separated veterans, active duty wartime or campaign badge veterans, and Armed Forces service medal veterans), or any other basis protected by law. GitLab will not tolerate discrimination or harassment based on any of these characteristics. See also GitLab’s EEO Policy and EEO is the Law. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please let us know during the recruiting process.

Skills Required

  • Product management experience at principal scope, leading complex products or experiences across multiple teams
  • Strong understanding of end-to-end software development workflow (planning through verification)
  • Experience with artificial intelligence products, developer tools, or DevSecOps platforms
  • Technical judgment to collaborate effectively with engineering teams
  • Strong product design and user experience instincts
  • Experience influencing across functions and resolving competing priorities without direct authority
  • Clear communication and presentation skills, including experience with senior and executive leaders
  • Ownership mindset and ability to make progress in fast-changing, ambiguous areas

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GitLab Compensation & Benefits Highlights

  • Healthcare Strength Medical coverage offers multiple U.S. plan options (Cigna in most states and Kaiser in CA/HI) alongside dental, vision, and an Employee Assistance Program. Handbook materials also note HSA availability with company contributions when enrolled in the HDHP.
  • Parental & Family Support Paid parental leave is documented at 16 weeks, with U.S. leave administration supported by Tilt as of February 2, 2026. Caregiving and backup care resources are also referenced for many roles and locations.
  • Fair & Transparent Compensation Compensation practices are described in a public handbook with standardized, market‑based frameworks, annual reviews, equity refreshes, and clear ranges visible internally as of May 2026. This documentation helps candidates and employees see current specifics and understand how pay is set.

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The Company
San Francisco, CA
2,500 Employees
Year Founded: 2014

What We Do

GitLab is the Intelligent Orchestration Platform where software teams and their AI agents stay in flow to amplify their capacity for innovation. Together, they automate repetitive tasks to plan, build, secure, test, deploy and maintain software. With GitLab, software teams spend less time on coordination overhead and more time on the next big idea. What started in 2011 as an open source project to help one team of programmers collaborate is now the intelligent orchestration platform millions of people use to deliver software faster, more efficiently, while strengthening security and compliance. Since the beginning, we've been firm believers in remote work, open source, DevSecOps, and iteration. We get up and log on in the morning to work alongside the GitLab community to deliver new innovations every month that help teams and their AI agents ship great code faster.

Why Work With Us

GitLab is where careers accelerate, innovation flourishes, and every voice is valued. Co-create the future with us as we build technology that transforms how the world develops software.

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