[Remote] Engineering Manager, Growth

Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. GitLab is the intelligent orchestration platform for DevSecOps, enabling organizations to enhance developer productivity and accelerate digital transformation. As an Engineering Manager, Growth, you will build and lead a high-performing team to enhance user discovery, activation, and retention through experimentation and product improvements.

Responsibilities

• Hire, guide, and enable a high-performing Growth engineering team, creating an environment where GitLab team members can do their best work and deliver strong results
• Partner closely with Product Managers, Product Designers, Data counterparts, and other Engineering Managers to define and deliver improvements that increase user discovery, activation, and expansion of value in GitLab
• Own delivery for your team, including planning, prioritization, and execution of work across experiments and product improvements, turning learnings into measurable gains in conversion, engagement, and upgrade flows
• Drive Growth’s operating model by guiding experiment ideation, ICE-based prioritization, hypothesis development, and review of results so the team can scale winning changes and stop low-impact work quickly
• Guide the technical design and implementation of experiments and growth-oriented product changes, ensuring they are measured well and tied to activation, conversion, and retention outcomes
• Work across Growth and other stage groups when work touches areas owned by other teams, helping your team move quickly while maintaining strong partnership and clear ownership boundaries
• Dive into technical discussions and reviews, helping unblock complex issues and translating technical and experimental tradeoffs into clear context for technical and non-technical stakeholders
• Foster strong async communication and healthy cross-functional operating rhythms with Product, Design, Analytics Instrumentation, Data, Customer Success, Sales, and other Growth counterparts to improve experiment execution and business outcomes
• Drive the adoption of AI-native experimentation and workflows, actively identifying creative opportunities to use AI to accelerate user value delivery

Skills

• Experience managing product, growth, or development teams, with a track record of building high-performing, values-aligned teams
• Strong technical background and the ability to guide fullstack engineering work, architecture discussions, and pragmatic delivery in a product environment. Growth teams use fullstack engineering to move efficiently across frontend and backend needs
• Experience working closely with Product, Design, and Data to deliver measurable outcomes through iteration, experimentation, and continuous improvement
• Strong cross-functional collaboration skills, especially in environments where work spans multiple product areas and stakeholder groups
• Comfort working in a data-informed environment, including prioritizing opportunities, evaluating experiment results, and helping teams make clear, evidence-based choices
• Ability to deep dive into complex technical and product issues and translate them into clear, actionable language for both technical and non-technical audiences
• Experience managing remote, globally distributed teams and working effectively in an all-remote, asynchronous environment
• Experience with developer tools and product-led growth, and the ability to model GitLab's values while contributing to an inclusive, high-performing culture
• A demonstrated ability to challenge the status quo and creatively utilize AI-driven tools to solve complex product challenges

Benefits

• 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

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