Director of Engineering, GitLab
Growth & Monetization
$203.2-345.6k
One DevOps platform
Job no longer available
One DevOps platform
1001+ employees
Job no longer available
$203.2-345.6k
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
- Experience leading multiple engineering teams through managers in a director-level or comparable engineering leadership role
- Strong foundation in application development and distributed systems, with the ability to apply that depth to customer-facing monetization platforms
- Knowledge of billing architecture, usage metering, invoicing, entitlements, budgeting, and account lifecycle management
- Experience launching usage-based products or platforms and supporting changes in pricing models
- Understanding of API-first, modular, and scalable platform architecture
- Experience building systems that require strong controls, compliance, and auditability, including SOX-related considerations
- Ability to work effectively across Engineering, Enterprise Applications, Finance, Legal, Sales, and other cross-functional teams in a distributed environment
- Clear communication, organizational leadership, and execution skills, with openness to candidates who bring transferable experience from adjacent platform or SaaS domains
- Familiarity with SaaS monetization, self-service growth models, hybrid self-service and sales-assisted journeys, or tools such as Zuora and Salesforce is helpful
What the job involves
- As the Director of Engineering, Growth and Monetization, you will lead the engineering strategy and execution behind the systems and product experiences that help customers adopt, buy, and expand with GitLab
- This role focuses on the full monetization journey, including self-service experiences, quote-to-cash systems, billing, usage, budgeting, entitlements, and account management
- You will help GitLab evolve toward usage- and impact-based pricing by building modular, scalable platforms that support seamless customer workflows and reliable business operations
- In this role, you will guide multiple teams through managers and partner closely with Product, Design, Finance, Legal, Sales, and Enterprise Applications to deliver customer-centered, compliant, and resilient systems
- You will shape the technical direction for an API-first monetization platform and raise the bar for architecture, execution quality, and platform resilience
- Over your first year, your work will center on aligning engineering strategy across the monetization journey, strengthening core systems and integrations, and helping the organization support new pricing and packaging models with confidence
- You will report into engineering leadership and play a key role in connecting customer experience, platform architecture, and business outcomes
- Some examples of our projects: Building end-to-end workflows across quoting, ordering, provisioning, billing, invoicing, entitlements, renewals, and expansion
- Some examples of our projects: Integrating AI and machine learning into monetization platforms for predictive pricing, usage forecasting, and more personalized billing experiences
- Lead the Growth and Monetization engineering organization with accountability for strategy, architecture, execution, and team health
- Drive the technical vision for self-service purchase, expansion, billing, usage visibility, budgeting, and account management experiences
- Build end-to-end workflows across quoting, ordering, provisioning, billing, invoicing, entitlements, renewals, and expansion
- Design an API-first monetization platform that is modular, scalable, and adaptable to evolving pricing and packaging models
- Develop systems that support usage- and impact-based products, including metering, rating, packaging, billing, and reporting
- Own and evolve integrations across monetization systems such as Zuora, Salesforce, and related enterprise platforms
- Partner with Enterprise Applications, Finance, Legal, Sales, Product, and Design to deliver compliant, scalable, customer-centered workflows
- Ensure high standards for reliability, auditability, controls, and operational rigor across monetization systems, including SOX-aware processes where needed
- Guide engineering initiatives that apply AI and machine learning to monetization use cases such as predictive pricing models, intelligent usage forecasting, and automated personalized billing experiences
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: $434.7m
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
(Co-Founder & Executive Chair)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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