Staff Technical Program Manager

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An overview of this role

As a Staff Technical Program Manager at GitLab, you'll drive some of our most important cross-functional portfolios and programs across the engineering organization. This role sits at the center of complex, cross-team work spanning multiple functions, where success comes from creating clarity, managing cross-functional coordination, and helping teams deliver meaningful outcomes over multiple quarters. You'll partner closely with engineering and product organizations to move high-priority initiatives forward, especially in areas where scope is broad, stakeholders are many, and the path ahead isn't fully defined.

This is a role for someone who can work comfortably in ambiguity while still bringing structure, momentum, and accountability to large programs. You'll operate with strong judgment and latitude, helping key stakeholders make informed choices, surfacing risks early, and keeping execution aligned to business goals. At GitLab, this role has grown in strategic importance, and you'll directly influence priorities and decisions across organizational boundaries while advancing programs that shape how our teams build and scale the platform.

Some examples of our projects:

• Driving portfolio-level planning and execution for high-priority engineering programs across research and development
• Coordinating multi-quarter initiatives that require alignment across engineering, product, and partner teams such as Monetization, Fulfillment, Utilization, and Legal

What you’ll do

• Lead the planning, execution, and delivery of high-priority, cross-functional programs across GitLab's engineering organization.
• Operate at the portfolio level to identify dependencies, track progress, manage risk, and help teams deliver against defined objectives, milestones, and measurable outcomes over multiple quarters.
• Partner directly with Engineering Directors, Vice Presidents, Product leadership, and technical leaders to align on priorities, program goals, trade-offs, and execution plans.
• Create structure in ambiguous spaces by defining program frameworks, decision points, operating cadences, and communication plans that help teams move forward.
• Translate technical architecture discussions, infrastructure considerations, and system dependencies into clear program plans that teams can execute against.
• Drive stakeholder coordination across organizational boundaries, including collaboration with teams such as Monetization, Fulfillment, Utilization, Legal, and senior individual contributors across engineering stages.
• Communicate program status, risks, and decisions clearly to senior stakeholders and executive audiences, with a focus on concise updates and actionable next steps.
• Strengthen how programs are run by improving planning practices, supporting outcome-oriented execution, and helping the teams you support work more effectively at scale.

What you’ll bring

• Proven technical program management experience, including operating at the Staff or Senior Staff level.
• Proven success leading large, complex, cross-functional programs in a fast-paced, distributed engineering environment.
• Strong technical fluency, with the ability to engage credibly with engineers and architects on topics such as continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD), cloud infrastructure, application programming interfaces (APIs), and distributed systems.
• Exceptional stakeholder management skills and strong written and verbal communication, especially when working with senior engineering and product leaders.
• Comfort using program and project management tools such as GitLab, Jira, or similar platforms to manage execution and visibility.
• Ability to read technical discussions, identify dependencies and risks, and turn complex inputs into practical plans, milestones, and decisions.
• Demonstrated ability to take ownership of complex programs, ask thoughtful questions, make sound decisions, collaborate constructively across teams, and move work forward in ambiguous environments.

About the team

The Technical Program Management team helps GitLab deliver complex work across research and development by bringing focus, coordination, and execution discipline to programs that span multiple teams. We partner closely with engineering and product leaders to support initiatives that are too broad or interdependent to be solved within a single function. The work is high visibility and high impact, and it plays an important role in helping GitLab scale how we plan, prioritize, and deliver.

You'll join a small team that works in an all-remote, async-first environment and values direct communication, trust, and shared ownership. We're collaborative and outcomes-focused, with space for autonomy in how work gets done. You'll work alongside other technical program managers and build strong partnerships with leaders across engineering and product, while helping connect efforts across business-critical areas. We support one another by sharing context early, flagging risks quickly, and staying focused on practical progress over perfect process.

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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 
• Home office support

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.

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