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Lead GitLab’s talent brand strategy and employer value proposition across the candidate journey. Develop integrated recruitment marketing campaigns, editorial content, recruiter resources, events, and scalable content systems. Partner with Talent Acquisition, Marketing, Communications, and business leaders to support hiring priorities and improve candidate experiences. Use performance data, audience insights, feedback, and market trends to evaluate campaigns, guide priorities, and increase candidate engagement and conversion.

The Talent Brand Manager will shape GitLab’s employer brand through recruitment marketing, storytelling, campaigns, and candidate education. Responsibilities include translating the employer value proposition into messaging, creating cross-channel campaigns and team-member stories, improving candidate journey touchpoints, analyzing funnel and engagement metrics, and partnering with Talent Acquisition and cross-functional stakeholders. The role also manages projects and external partners while improving talent brand processes, reporting, and operations in a fully remote environment.

Leads technical direction and develops fullstack purchase experiences using Ruby on Rails and Vue.js. Designs resilient transactional flows, integrates billing and CRM systems, improves reliability and rollout safety, mentors engineers, reviews code, reduces technical debt, and participates in incident response. Partners with Product, Design, Billing, and Support to improve GitLab’s purchase, subscription, discount, and upgrade workflows.

Own operational processes, reporting, and programs for Customer Success Management. Translate ambiguous leadership questions into solutions, improve processes end-to-end, partner with Revenue Technology/Analytics, support planning (capacity, segmentation, territory), and drive cross-functional alignment with Sales and Finance to scale CS operations.

Drive enterprise sales growth across California by managing strategic accounts, generating pipeline, and expanding GitLab’s AI-powered DevSecOps platform. Lead consultative sales cycles from discovery through negotiation and implementation; build C-level relationships, develop account plans, coordinate cross-functional and channel partners, forecast pipeline, analyze wins and losses, and communicate customer value through presentations and proposals.

Lead complex, end-to-end technical programs across product, engineering, data, and security teams. Translate strategic priorities into roadmaps, manage risks and dependencies, coordinate distributed teams, and align executive stakeholders. Drive AI platform, data, infrastructure, security, reliability, and enterprise adoption initiatives from inception through launch and continuous improvement while ensuring predictable execution and transparent communication.

Lead corporate endpoint security architecture with a focus on macOS, designing secure-by-default controls, automation, patching, software distribution, and security baselines across macOS, iOS, Windows, and Linux. Manage configurations through Terraform, GitOps, version control, CI pipelines, and automated rollouts. Partner with IT and security teams to improve telemetry, detection, response, auditability, and operational efficiency. Mentor engineers and serve as a senior escalation point for complex endpoint security issues in a fully remote environment.

Own preparation, review, and filing of SEC reports (10-Q, 10-K, 8-K, S-1); drive quarterly and annual reporting calendar; lead earnings release process; manage disclosure checklist and XBRL review; improve and automate reporting processes; prepare/review journal entries, reconciliations, equity rollforwards, and EPS; ensure U.S. GAAP and SOX compliance; research technical accounting issues and implement new accounting pronouncements.

Own and execute multi-year strategic partnerships with a hyperscaler and an AI lab, aligning technical integrations, commercial motions, and joint go-to-market plans. Coordinate cross-functional teams, run operational cadences, track measurable outcomes (pipeline, ARR, integrations), and represent partnerships to executives while driving hands-on execution and follow-through.

Provide advanced technical support for GitLab’s largest customers, troubleshooting complex Linux, GitLab, CI/CD, infrastructure, and integration issues. Build customer relationships, resolve critical incidents, collaborate with Product, Development, Infrastructure, Customer Success, and Sales teams, create reusable support documentation, share knowledge, and participate in hiring. The role requires strong Linux systems expertise, scripting ability, debugging skills, and familiarity with Kubernetes and serverless technologies.