GitLab - Senior Executive Business Partner
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Requirements
• Experience supporting senior executives in a fast-moving business environment, with the judgment to manage shifting priorities, sensitive matters, and competing demands. • A proactive, partnership-oriented working style, with the ability to anticipate needs, move quickly, and adapt thoughtfully to an ever-changing environment. • Comfort operating in ambiguity and managing complexity with sound judgment, calm execution, and strong problem-solving skills. • Ability to manage complex calendars, travel, and expenses for multiple stakeholders while maintaining accuracy and clear communication. • Experience working with technology or Information Technology organizations, with an understanding of how to support cross-functional operational work. • Strong executive communication skills, including the ability to synthesize information, prepare recommendations, and ensure the right content is ready at the right time. • Demonstrated follow-through and accountability, including the confidence to keep senior leaders on track with reminders, open items, and commitments. • Strong interpersonal skills and the ability to build trusted relationships across leaders, peers, and key contributors while maintaining discretion with confidential information. • Proficiency with tools such as Google Workspace, Slack, Zoom, and Navan or similar platforms used for collaboration, scheduling, travel, and expense management. • Comfort using AI tools to improve productivity, automate routine tasks, and synthesize information. • A collaborative, independent, and detail-oriented approach, including openness to transferable experience from adjacent administrative or project coordination backgrounds. • The Executive Business Administration function supports GitLab leaders by creating the operational foundation that helps teams work effectively in an all-remote, asynchronous environment. • In this role, you’ll work closely with the CIO and partner with other Executive Assistants across the organization to coordinate priorities, improve visibility, and keep important work moving across regions and functions. You will also help strengthen the operating rhythms of the Office of the CIO by improving preparedness, communication, follow-through, and proactive support across the broader organization. • The team operates with a high level of trust, autonomy, and collaboration, and this role is especially well-suited for someone who can combine strong execution with organizational insight, relationship-building, and a practical sense for what the CIO and the function will need next. • How GitLab will support you • 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. • The base salary range for this role’s listed level is currently for residents of the United States only. This range is intended to reflect the role's base salary rate in locations throughout the US. Grade level and salary ranges are determined through interviews and a review of education, experience, knowledge, skills, abilities of the applicant, equity with other team members, alignment with market data, and geographic location. The base salary range does not include any bonuses, equity, or benefits. See more information on our benefits and equity. Sales roles are also eligible for incentive pay targeted at up to 100% of the offered base salary.
Responsibilities
• Support the Chief Information Officer with day-to-day administrative and operational needs across scheduling, communications, planning, and execution. • Manage complex calendars by vetting requests, prioritizing meetings, recommending tradeoffs, and aligning schedules with GitLab meeting norms and practices. • Proactively manage inbound requests to the CIO by framing issues, offering recommendations, and helping drive timely decisions instead of simply escalating questions. • Own and strengthen leadership cadences across the broader Office of the CIO, including staff meetings, team meetings, planning rhythms, and other recurring operating mechanisms. • Prepare detailed agendas, briefing materials, and meeting content far enough in advance to support thoughtful review and meaningful discussion in internal and external meetings. • Track follow-ups, action items, deliverables, and updates across direct reports and functional peers, and actively remind the CIO when action or acknowledgment is needed. • Help the CIO maintain strong visibility into team progress, emerging issues, and moments of achievement across the organization. • Build trusted working relationships with leaders, direct reports, and key individual contributors to stay close to what is happening in the division and provide informed insight and advice. • Coordinate end-to-end travel logistics, including transportation, lodging, security, visas, and related documentation. • Process expense reports and monitor reimbursements with accuracy and timely follow-through. • Partner with People Operations, Information Technology, recruiting teams, and other Executive Business Administrators to resolve logistics, schedule interviews, coordinate onboarding, and provide coverage when needed. • Manage team meetings, onsites, and events by handling scheduling, materials, vendor coordination, owning agenda development, pre-meeting prep, note-taking, action item tracking, and budget support while using AI tools to streamline routine work and information synthesis.
Benefits
• $115,000—$190,000 USD • 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:
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