An overview of this role:
- You'll lead the Core Planning team within GitLab's Plan stage, reimagining how development teams organize, coordinate, and plan their work at enterprise scale.
- You'll solve this by building flexible, configurable planning fundamentals that replace outdated agile mechanisms with intelligent automation.
- Your focus will be on evolving our work item model, integrating agentic AI functionality that handles repetitive planning tasks, and freeing up teams to focus on what matters.
What you’ll bring:
- Experience building or shipping products for SaaS, DevOps, or DevSecOps platforms, or working in scale-ups in adjacent spaces
- Demonstrated ability to collaborate closely with engineering teams and use data and metrics to inform product decisions
- Experience working in distributed or remote environments, or collaborating with teams across different regions and time zones with excellent verbal and written communication skills.
About the team:
- The Core Planning team you'll lead is at the heart of this transformation, owning the foundational workflows and mechanics that enable teams to plan effectively at scale.
- The team operates asynchronously across distributed regions and collaborates closely with engineering , design.
- This is an opportunity to shape how millions of developers work together, replacing manual, repetitive planning mechanics with intelligent systems that amplify human decision-making.