Senior Professional Services Project Manager (EMEA)

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The intelligent orchestration platform for DevSecOps
The Role
Manage complex professional services and software consulting projects from initiation through closure. Coordinate customers, executives, Sales, Engineering, Product, Support, architects, and delivery partners. Own schedules, scope, resources, risks, issues, escalations, change orders, revenue recognition, and executive communications. Improve project management processes, tools, templates, metrics, and delivery procedures while ensuring projects meet timelines, budgets, customer expectations, and forecast goals.
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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.

Senior Professional Services Project Manager (London area)An overview of this role

GitLab Senior Professional Services Project Managers manage complex projects from initiation through delivery and closure. In this role, you'll coordinate with cross-functional teams and our global customers to complete distinct projects on time and within budget. You'll use your experience managing information technology and software consulting projects and your knowledge of traditional and agile project management and software development methods. You'll also manage executive stakeholder communications, manage escalations, and help improve Professional Services project management practices.

What you’ll do
  • Manage large-scale commercial projects and executive stakeholder meetings and communications.
  • Collaborate with GitLab Support, Engineering, and Product teams to resolve complex customer problems using GitLab technologies.
  • Drive improvements to Professional Services project management tools, processes, procedures, and templates.
  • Summarize key customer projects monthly and provide a summary for quarterly business reviews.
  • Develop and manage delivery schedules, customer expectations, project scope, resources, status, risks, and issues for technical and consulting services.
  • Manage customer escalations by coordinating with customers and GitLab stakeholders, including the executive team, Sales, and Technical Account Managers.
  • Establish reliable, repeatable delivery processes, metrics, and operational procedures.
  • Set and achieve forecast goals by aligning customers, Technical Architects, project engineers, partner consultants, and delivery partners.
What you’ll bring
  • Experience managing complex information technology or software consulting projects for external customers from initiation through closure.
  • Ability to manage project scope, schedules, resources, customer expectations, risks, issues, and multiple priorities while delivering concise executive-level status reports.
  • Ability to build effective relationships with customer leaders, communicate with internal and external stakeholders, and manage escalations.
  • Ability to identify and resolve project challenges, motivate advisory teams and contributors, and mediate conflicts.
  • Experience supporting timely revenue recognition and executing change orders when needed.
  • Knowledge of project management and technical delivery methods for software, including Project Management Institute methodologies, agile or Scrum, the software development lifecycle, and project management or agile tools such as GitLab.
  • Enterprise customer and Professional Services experience is a plus.
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

  • Experience managing complex information technology or software consulting projects for external customers from initiation through closure
  • Ability to manage project scope, schedules, resources, customer expectations, risks, issues, and multiple priorities
  • Ability to deliver concise executive-level status reports
  • Ability to build relationships with customer leaders and communicate with internal and external stakeholders
  • Experience managing escalations
  • Ability to identify and resolve project challenges, motivate contributors, and mediate conflicts
  • Experience supporting timely revenue recognition and executing change orders
  • Knowledge of project management and technical delivery methods for software
  • Knowledge of Project Management Institute methodologies, Agile or Scrum, and the software development lifecycle
  • Experience with project management or Agile tools such as GitLab
  • Enterprise customer and Professional Services experience

What the Team is Saying

GitLab Compensation & Benefits Highlights

  • Healthcare Strength — Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage is offered alongside dedicated mental-health programs and wellness resources, with U.S. plans including company-paid life insurance and short- and long-term disability. Coverage varies by country but is structured to support a global, all-remote workforce.
  • Leave & Time Off Breadth — A flexible/unlimited PTO policy—framed as “no ask, must tell”—gives employees autonomy over scheduling and extended vacations. The all-remote, asynchronous model further supports taking time away.
  • Parental & Family Support — Up to 16 weeks of paid parental leave is available for eligible births or adoptions, with additional caregiving and backup-care resources. These provisions aim to ease transitions for new parents in a distributed environment.

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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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