Principal Product Manager, GitLab
AI Control Plane and Guardrails
$180-250k
Salary applicable to candidates based in the US
One DevOps platform
Posted today
One DevOps platform
1001+ employees
Posted today
$180-250k
Salary applicable to candidates based in the US
1001+ employees
Company mission
To make it so that everyone can contribute. When everyone can contribute, users become contributors and we greatly increase the rate of innovation.
Role
Who you are
- Extensive product management experience owning complex, technical products end-to-end — from customer discovery and strategy through roadmap execution and delivery — ideally in B2B SaaS platforms
- Proven experience building governance, admin, or control-plane products for AI, data, or platform capabilities, including policy management, access controls, configuration frameworks, and multi-tenant administration
- Strong understanding of AI product lifecycle and enterprise adoption patterns, including how organizations evaluate, pilot, and scale AI capabilities and the governance requirements that gate each stage
- Experience shipping enterprise readiness capabilities that drive broad adoption, such as admin settings, subscription and seat controls, usage analytics, audit logging, and policy-driven configuration
- Working knowledge of security, compliance, and regulatory concepts as they relate to AI products, including data residency, model governance, access controls, auditability requirements, and emerging AI policy frameworks (e.g., EU AI Act, NIST AI RMF)
- Ability to translate complex, technical concepts — model behavior, data flows, policy logic — into clear product requirements, customer-facing value, and internal alignment across cross-functional stakeholders
- Strong customer empathy and experience partnering with enterprise customers, security teams, and compliance stakeholders to understand constraints, validate problems, and prioritize the highest-impact investments
What the job involves
- As the Principal Product Manager, AI Control Plane and Guardrails, you'll own GitLab's AI control plane end-to-end — the set of capabilities that give organizations visibility, control, and confidence as they adopt AI across the DevSecOps lifecycle
- This spans governance and policy management, admin and access controls, subscription and entitlement management, usage analytics and reporting, audit and compliance, and the platform experiences that make AI trustworthy and manageable at enterprise scale
- You'll report to the Vice President of Product for AI and partner closely with engineering, design, security, and cross-functional stakeholders to define outcomes, make tradeoffs, and ship iteratively for large organizations
- In your first year, you'll focus on establishing a clear product strategy for AI Guardrails and Governance, translating customer demand into a prioritized roadmap, and delivering foundational capabilities that set teams up for secure, compliant, and scalable use of AI across GitLab
- Own the product strategy and end-to-end roadmap for AI Governance and the AI control plane, covering policy and access management, subscription and usage controls, analytics and reporting, audit and compliance, and admin configuration — all focused on unlocking broad, confident enterprise adoption of GitLab's AI capabilities
- Define and drive the governance model for AI across GitLab, including hierarchical policy controls, feature-level toggles, role-based access, data-handling settings, and model-selection preferences that give organizations the granularity they need
- Partner closely with engineering, design, security, data, legal, and cross-functional product partners (including AI Platform, Identity, and Fulfillment teams) to define requirements, align dependencies, and deliver a cohesive AI control plane that integrates cleanly across the product
- Translate customer and field feedback into clear problem statements, prioritized outcomes, and pragmatic releases that improve usability, manageability, and trust in AI-powered capabilities at scale
- Establish success metrics for AI and Governance— including adoption, activation, policy coverage, and compliance posture — and use data-informed insights to guide prioritization, measure impact, and continuously improve the product
- Operate as a technical, high-autonomy product leader, bringing clarity to ambiguous problem spaces, mentoring other product managers, and representing the governance perspective in broader AI product and platform decisions
Our take
GitLab is an open-source collaboration platform for developers. It enables teams to build code quickly from anywhere without compromising on security or quality. GitLab already has an estimated 30M+ users from all over the world.
According to a 2021 GitLab report, 60% of developers can release code 2x faster with DevOps platforms that bring teams together and accelerate processes. It stands out by catering to programmers of all experiences. Gitlab's version control system helps streamline the process of creating, maintaining, and deploying code, whoever you are.
GitLab was in the right place to capitalise on the recent trend toward rapid digital transformation and remote working. This trend is expected to grow, and with it, GitLab's popularity. With its successful 2021 IPO and the patronage of major brands such as Nasdaq and Jaguar Land Rover, GitLab is expected to solidify its position as the go-to platform for development teams.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
15% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 8 rounds)
Sep 2019
$268m
SERIES E
Dec 2018
$20m
SERIES D
Total funding: $435.3m
Company benefits
- We offer benefits to manage your health, wealth, and well-being regardless of location
- Flexibility in schedule to be there for life’s important moments
- Equity compensation & Employee Stock Purchase Plan offered
- Generous Paid Time Off
Company HQ
Financial District, San Francisco, CA
Leadership
Sid Sijbrandij
(CEO)Studied Physics at the University of Twente. Interned at P&G and IBM. Was Lead Architect at the Netherlands' Ministry of Justice from 2009 to 2012. Founded app store Comcoaster in 2008, and then co-founded GitLab in 2012.
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