GitLab - Manager, Engineering, Nonlinear Productivity (Friction Elimination & Solutions)
Requirements
• Ability to use GitLab. • A track record of identifying and shipping technical fixes for developer productivity, continuous integration and continuous delivery, or platform friction, including problems you found before they were assigned. • Comfort operating with high ambiguity and no existing backlog, building the roadmap rather than executing one handed down. • People management experience, including in a small-team or working-manager capacity. • Technical depth to evaluate and prototype solutions directly, not only direct others toward them. • Product judgment to assess whether an internal tool could hold up for paying customers. • Familiarity with agentic or AI-assisted development tooling. • Experience moving an internal tool toward an external, customer-facing product is advantageous. • The Nonlinear Productivity team improves how GitLab engineers, and increasingly agents, build, review, and ship code. We test and scale durable technical fixes that improve our internal engineering output. • Career ladder • Career ladder • In this role, you can progress to Senior Manager, Nonlinear Productivity, with an expanded mandate across the full set of team metrics we use to track improvement. • Additional details about our process can be found on our hiring page. • How GitLab Supports Full-Time Employees • 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 • Please note that we welcome interest from candidates with varying levels of experience; many successful candidates do not meet every single requirement. Additionally, studies have shown that people from underrepresented groups are less likely to apply to a job unless they meet every single qualification. If you're excited about this role, please apply and allow our recruiters to assess your application. • Country Hiring Guidelines: GitLab hires new team members in countries around the world. All of our roles are remote, however some roles may carry specific location-based eligibility requirements. Our Talent Acquisition team can help answer any questions about location after starting the recruiting process. • Country Hiring Guidelines:
Responsibilities
• Survey GitLab’s internal software development lifecycle and code-generation workflows to identify structural friction early, and build a data-backed view of where technical interventions will have the highest leverage. • Evaluate build, buy, and adapt options for each opportunity, including emerging agentic and AI tooling, with a clear view of cost, risk, and durability. • Stand up prototypes and review architecture directly to test whether a proposed fix moves a target metric and represents a durable solution before GitLab makes broader engineering investment. • Hire and manage a small, high-caliber team, or operate as a hands-on working manager, with a focus on talent density over headcount. • Drive validated fixes from prototype to internal adoption by partnering with affected teams so solutions are relied on, used, and maintained. • Build the technical and business case for productizing internal fixes that prove durable, in partnership with product. • Document reusable learnings so successful internal fixes don’t remain tribal knowledge. • Report impact through changes in key metrics and progress on turning internal fixes into products, including a clear account of what didn’t work.
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