At a glance
- Workplace
- Remote
- Location
- Remote
- Salary
- USD 203,200-345,600 · Base salary
About the role
- As Principal Product Manager, Orbit, you'll define the vision, strategy, and roadmap for GitLab's software lifecycle context graph.
- Orbit connects source code and software development lifecycle data into a structured map of systems, relationships, dependencies, and ownership.
- This role combines technical product leadership with building a business around software lifecycle context, balancing foundational platform work with near-term customer needs.
Responsibilities
- Define Orbit's multi-year vision and roadmap across graph models and ontology, ingestion and indexing, query and retrieval, developer and agent interfaces, governance, and enterprise readiness.
- Turn complex platform opportunities into customer problems, measurable outcomes, and investment decisions.
- Partner with Engineering and Design on architecture and implementation tradeoffs across graph data models, indexing, query systems, application programming interfaces (APIs), Model Context Protocol (MCP), authorization, and scale.
- Use AI tools such as Claude Code and GitLab to investigate problems, explore code and data, prototype concepts, and create or review merge requests when that's the fastest way to learn.
- Lead discovery with developers, engineering leaders, platform teams, security teams, and technical executives to validate needs around dependencies, ownership, change impact, vulnerability exposure, pipeline health, and software delivery risk.
- Define target customers, priority use cases, differentiated value, and the path to product-market fit, partnering with cross-functional teams on positioning, packaging, pricing, launch, adoption, and expansion.
- Develop business cases and track adoption, retention, usage, customer value, and revenue outcomes while supporting executive briefings, analyst conversations, customer workshops, and field enablement.
- Align teams and executive leaders around clear recommendations and tradeoffs without relying on direct authority, mentor other product managers, and represent GitLab's vision in conversations.
Requirements
- Experience owning complex technical products or platforms at Staff, Principal, or equivalent scope, with a track record of defining vision and roadmaps across multiple teams.
- Deep technical fluency in one or more relevant areas, such as developer tools, DevOps, software delivery, data platforms, distributed systems, knowledge graphs, search, APIs, AI infrastructure, or agentic systems.
- The ability to work credibly with engineers on architecture, data models, APIs, scale, reliability, and security.
- Business judgment and experience in market assessment, product strategy, pricing, packaging, business cases, or commercialization of technical products.
- Experience taking a product, platform, or category from early concept through launch, customer adoption, and iteration.
- A customer-first approach and the ability to build trusted relationships with technical practitioners, engineering leaders, architects, and executives.
- Clear written and verbal communication, with experience explaining complex ideas, influencing across functions, and resolving competing priorities in ambiguous work.
- Practical experience using AI tools in product work, including exploring code and data, prototyping workflows, and creating or reviewing merge requests.
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
Workplace
- Remote workplace setup
Skills
- Claude Code
- GitLab
- APIs
- Model Context Protocol (MCP)
- Knowledge Graphs
- Distributed Systems
- Developer Tools
- DevOps
- Search
- AI Infrastructure
- Agentic Systems
