Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. GitLab is the intelligent orchestration platform for DevSecOps, and they are seeking a Principal Product Manager to shape their AI product direction. This role focuses on custom models and self-hosted AI experiences, balancing model choice and operational realities to enhance GitLab's AI offerings.
Responsibilities
- Lead product strategy and roadmap definition for custom models and self-hosted AI capabilities within GitLab
- Drive discovery, prioritization, and delivery for features that support model flexibility, self-managed deployments, and AI agent orchestration use cases
- Collaborate closely with engineering, design, and other product leaders to turn complex customer and technical needs into clear product direction
- Define product requirements that account for infrastructure, configuration, deployment, and hardware considerations in self-hosted environments
- Partner with internal stakeholders across GitLab AI initiatives to ensure this product area fits into the broader platform strategy
- Guide tradeoff decisions with a strong focus on customer value, technical feasibility, and long-term platform quality
- Support knowledge transfer and continuity as the team grows and evolves, helping new work move forward with context and clarity
- Communicate plans, decisions, and priorities in a transparent way that helps distributed teams execute asynchronously
Skills
- Experience owning product strategy for technical platform, infrastructure, or AI-driven products
- Knowledge of AI model ecosystems, including custom model options, open models, or open weight models, and the product decisions involved in supporting them
- Familiarity with self-hosted or self-managed software and the operational needs of customers running software in their own environments
- Ability to work effectively with engineers on topics such as configuration, infrastructure, deployment patterns, and hardware-related constraints
- Experience leading complex product work with multiple stakeholders and making clear decisions in areas with technical ambiguity
- Skill in written and verbal communication, with the ability to explain product direction clearly in a distributed, asynchronous environment
- Judgment to operate at principal scope, with ownership across strategy, execution, and cross-functional alignment
- Openness to bringing transferable experience from adjacent areas such as DevSecOps, developer platforms, infrastructure software, or applied AI products
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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