Principal Product Manager, AI Software Factory
Leads the vision and strategy for GitLab’s end-to-end, AI-powered software factory experience, connecting planning, coding, review, and verification across teams. Requires principal-level product leadership, technical judgment, strong UX instincts, and executive communication skills.
About the job
Responsibilities
- Define the product vision and strategy for GitLab’s end-to-end software factory experience.
- Bring together planning, specification, coding, review, and verification workflows into a cohesive product experience.
- Partner with product, engineering, design, and go-to-market teams across GitLab to align priorities and execution.
- Identify gaps, dependencies, and opportunities across GitLab Duo Agent Platform and related GitLab product areas.
- Use strong product and design judgment to make complex workflows clear and useful for customers.
- Build support for product decisions through clear communication, negotiation, and cross-functional collaboration.
- Present product direction, tradeoffs, and recommendations to senior and executive leaders.
- Help shape how GitLab brings its software factory vision to market.
Requirements
- Product management experience at principal scope, leading complex products or experiences across multiple teams.
- Strong understanding of the end-to-end software development workflow, from planning through verification.
- Experience with artificial intelligence products, developer tools, DevSecOps platforms, or related technical products.
- Technical judgment that supports effective collaboration with engineering teams and informed product decisions.
- Strong product design and user experience instincts, including the ability to connect separate capabilities into a coherent experience.
- Experience influencing across functions, resolving competing priorities, and moving work forward without direct authority.
- Clear communication and presentation skills, including experience working with senior and executive leaders.
- Ownership mindset and ability to make progress in a fast-changing product area with ambiguity.
Benefits and Compensation
- Benefits supporting health, finances, and well-being
- Flexible paid time off
- Team member resource groups
- Equity compensation and employee stock purchase plan
- Growth and development fund
- Parental leave
Skills
Artificial Intelligence, Developer Tools, DevSecOps, Product Strategy, Product Design, User Experience, Software Development, Gitlab Duo Agent Platform
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