# Principal Product Manager, AI Custom Models

**Company:** [GitLab](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/gitlab)
**Location:** Remote
**Role:** Product Management
**Salary:** $203k – $346k/yr
**Experience:** 7+ years
**Skills:** Product Strategy, Product Roadmapping, Artificial Intelligence, Custom Models, Open Models, AI Agents, Self-Hosted Software, Infrastructure, Deployment, Hardware, DevSecOps, Product Requirements
**Posted:** 2026-09-01

> Leads strategy and execution for GitLab’s custom-model and self-hosted AI capabilities, balancing model flexibility, agent orchestration, infrastructure, deployment, and hardware needs. Requires principal-level product leadership experience in AI, infrastructure, technical platforms, or adjacent developer-focused products.

## Job Description

## Responsibilities
- Lead product strategy and roadmap definition for custom models and self-hosted AI capabilities within GitLab.
- Drive discovery, prioritization, and delivery for model flexibility, self-managed deployments, and AI agent orchestration features.
- Partner with engineering, design, and product leaders to translate complex customer and technical needs into product direction.
- Define requirements covering infrastructure, configuration, deployment, and hardware considerations in self-hosted environments.
- Align the product area with broader GitLab AI and platform strategy.
- Make tradeoff decisions focused on customer value, technical feasibility, and long-term platform quality.
- Support knowledge transfer and continuity as the team grows.
- Communicate plans, decisions, and priorities clearly to distributed, asynchronous teams.

## Requirements
- Experience owning product strategy for technical platform, infrastructure, or AI-driven products.
- Knowledge of AI model ecosystems, including custom, open, or open-weight models.
- Familiarity with self-hosted or self-managed software and the operational needs of customers running software in their own environments.
- Ability to work with engineers on configuration, infrastructure, deployment patterns, and hardware constraints.
- Experience leading complex, cross-functional product work and making decisions amid technical ambiguity.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills for distributed, asynchronous collaboration.
- Judgment appropriate for principal-level ownership across strategy, execution, and alignment.
- Transferable experience from areas such as DevSecOps, developer platforms, infrastructure software, or applied AI products.

## Compensation and Benefits
- United States base salary range: **$203,200–$345,600 USD**.
- Benefits include flexible paid time off, health and well-being support, team member resource groups, equity compensation and employee stock purchase plan, growth and development funding, and parental leave.

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