Cranial Technologies is hiring a Director of Product Management, Data to lead GitLab's data product strategy and delivery across customer analytics, revenue-driving data products, and internal data products. You'll set the vision for a reporting platform that helps customers understand and improve software development, and drive new data products like the GitLab Knowledge Graph.
What You'll Do
- Set the product vision, strategy, and roadmap for GitLab's data product area, including a reporting and analytics platform for the software development lifecycle.
- Lead and develop a team of product managers, providing clear priorities, coaching, and an operating cadence for high-quality execution in a remote, asynchronous environment.
- Partner closely with engineering leadership to shape system-level architecture and sequencing, aligning technical investments with customer outcomes and business impact.
- Define and deliver core analytics experiences for GitLab customers, such as engineering efficiency, DORA metrics, value stream analytics, and security dashboards.
- Drive the go-to-market and product strategy for monetizing data capabilities, including identifying target customer cohorts, packaging, and value propositions.
- Lead 0 to 1 product work for emerging capabilities like the GitLab Knowledge Graph to connect data across GitLab and beyond for analytics and AI.
- Enable secure, reliable data access as a product, including customer-facing pathways to export or integrate GitLab data into external analytics and data warehouse environments.
- Ensure the data platform supports GitLab's internal reporting needs, including product usage insights, by aligning stakeholders on definitions, data quality, and trusted metrics.
What We're Looking For
- Deep experience leading product management for data platforms and data products in enterprise software or SaaS, including building foundational analytics and reporting capabilities.
- Demonstrated ability to take data products from 0 to 1, including defining vision, validating customer needs, and delivering an initial product that can scale.
- Strong systems thinking and comfort operating across a complex data ecosystem, including platform instrumentation, data modeling, and how data connects across product areas.
- Proven track record of developing monetization strategies for complex data products, including identifying target customer cohorts, defining packaging and value propositions.
- Director-level people leadership experience, including managing and developing product managers and building high-performing, collaborative teams.
- Strong cross-functional partnership skills, especially with engineering leadership, to set strategy, make tradeoffs, and drive execution across multiple workstreams.
- Executive-level communication skills, with experience leading strategic conversations, aligning leaders on priorities, and clearly articulating product strategy, impact, and decisions.
- Ability to work autonomously and asynchronously in a fully remote environment, staying aligned through clear written communication, measurable goals, and consistent operating rhythms.
Team & Environment
You will manage and grow a team with direct reports and partner closely with engineering leadership.
Benefits & Compensation
- 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
- Home office support
Work Mode
This role is remote and open to candidates in Canada, EMEA, and the United States.
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