The opportunity
GitLab is the intelligent orchestration platform for DevSecOps. GitLab enables organizations to increase developer productivity, improve operational efficiency, reduce security and compliance risk, and accelerate digital transformation.
What they're looking for
- Executive and Cross-Functional Partnership: Serve as a strategic thought partner to leaders across Sales, Finance, Product, and People, translating complex data questions into scalable answers. Build strong relationships across the e-group while ensuring the data team earns appropriate recognition for its contributions.
- Team Leadership and Development: Inspire and develop a high-performing distributed team across data platform, analytics engineering, governance, and analyst functions. Foster async-first culture, set clear expectations, and build a team that is proactive, strategic, and deeply engaged with the business.
- AI and Emerging Technology Adoption: Stay ahead of the curve on evolving data tooling, AI agents, and vibe-coded or curated analytics applications. Identify where emerging approaches can accelerate GitLab's data maturity and bring a point of view on what the future of data consumption looks like at scale.
- + years of progressive data leadership experience, with 5+ years managing: multi-functional data teams at high-growth SaaS companies