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GitLabPrincipal Product Manager, Orbit
GitLab operates an intelligent orchestration platform for DevSecOps, helping organizations accelerate digital transformation, enhance developer productivity, minimize compliance risk, and boost operational efficiency. More than half…
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GitLab operates an intelligent orchestration platform for DevSecOps, helping organizations accelerate digital transformation, enhance developer productivity, minimize compliance risk, and boost operational efficiency. More than half of Fortune 100 companies and over 50 million registered users utilize the platform to deliver secure software more rapidly. As the Principal Product Manager, Orbit , you will define the roadmap, strategy, and vision for the software lifecycle context graph. This position connects software…
Job Description
GitLab operates an intelligent orchestration platform for DevSecOps, helping organizations accelerate digital transformation, enhance developer productivity, minimize compliance risk, and boost operational efficiency. More than half of Fortune 100 companies and over 50 million registered users utilize the platform to deliver secure software more rapidly.
As the Principal Product Manager, Orbit, you will define the roadmap, strategy, and vision for the software lifecycle context graph. This position connects software development lifecycle data and source code into a structured framework of relationships, dependencies, systems, and ownership, aiding artificial intelligence agents, engineers, and software leaders in understanding system impacts.
Reporting within Anand Ahire's product organization, this role combines commercialization with technical leadership, balancing foundational work with immediate customer demands. You will collaborate across departments including Engineering, Design, Product Marketing, Sales, Solutions Engineering, and Customer Success, alongside teams developing GitLab Duo and broader DevSecOps tools.
The position is open on a full-time basis.
Responsibilities
- Define the multi-year strategy and vision for Orbit across ontology, graph models, indexing, ingestion, retrieval, query, interfaces, governance, and enterprise readiness.
- Determine how Orbit integrates across GitLab.com, Self-Managed, Dedicated, the GitLab Duo Agent Platform, external Model Context Protocol agents, APIs, and developer tools.
- Translate complex platform opportunities into measurable outcomes, customer problems, and investment choices utilizing empirical evidence.
- Collaborate with Design and Engineering regarding implementation tradeoffs and architecture across graph data models, APIs, authorization, scale, indexing, query systems, and Model Context Protocol.
- Utilize artificial intelligence solutions such as GitLab and Claude Code for data and code investigation, prototyping, and merge request review or creation.
- Facilitate discovery sessions with security teams, developers, engineering leaders, platform teams, and technical executives to validate requirements regarding dependencies, ownership, change impact, vulnerability exposure, and pipeline health.
- Establish target customers, priority use cases, value propositions, and pathways to product-market fit in partnership with commercial teams.
- Formulate business cases while tracking key metrics including usage, adoption, revenue, retention, and customer value.
- Mentor other product managers, share frameworks, and represent product vision during industry and customer discussions.
Requirements
- Experience managing complex platforms or technical products at a Staff, Principal, or equivalent level with a history of defining roadmaps across multiple teams.
- Strong technical background in areas such as developer tools, DevOps, distributed systems, software delivery, knowledge graphs, data platforms, search, AI infrastructure, or agentic systems.
- Demonstrated ability to collaborate with engineers regarding architecture, scale, security, data models, APIs, and reliability.
- Commercial judgment encompassing product strategy, market assessment, pricing, business cases, and packaging for technical products.
- Background in steering a product or platform from initial concept through launch, adoption, and iteration.
- Customer-centric mindset with the capability to establish trust with engineering leaders, architects, technical practitioners, and executives.
- Written and verbal communication skills capable of resolving competing priorities and influencing across functions.
- Hands-on background utilizing artificial intelligence tools for prototyping workflows, exploring data, and reviewing code.
Core Skills
Benefits
- Flexible Paid Time Off
- Team Member Resource Groups
- Equity Compensation and Employee Stock Purchase Plan
- Growth and Development Fund
- Parental Leave
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What is the employment type and remote status for this role?
This is a full-time, remote position.
What is the salary range for the Principal Product Manager, Orbit position?
The United States base salary range is $203,200 to $345,600 per year, which does not include bonuses, equity, or benefits.
Which team will this role join?
You will join Anand Ahire's product organization and work within GitLab's Analytics organization.
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