Senior Engineering Manager, Non-Linear Productivity

Gitlab

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. More than 50 million registered users and more than 50% of the Fortune 100* trust GitLab to ship better, more secure software faster. The same principles built into our products are reflected in how our team works: we embrace AI as a core productivity multiplier, with all team members expected to incorporate AI into their daily workflows to drive efficiency, innovation, and impact. GitLab is where careers accelerate, innovation flourishes, and every voice is valued. Our high-performance culture is driven by our values and continuous knowledge exchange, enabling our team members to reach their full potential while collaborating with industry leaders to solve complex problems. Co-create the future with us as we build technology that transforms how the world develops software. *Fortune 500® is a registered trademark of Fortune Media IP Limited, used under license. Claim based on GitLab data. Fortune 100 refers to the top 20% ranked companies in the 2025 Fortune 500 list, published in June 2025. Fortune and Fortune Media IP Limited are not affiliated with, and do not endorse products or services of GitLab. About the Role We are looking for a Distinguished Engineer to pioneer and scale autonomous, agentic SDLC capabilities across GitLab. Distinguished Engineers are recognized experts across multiple technology domains and represent the most senior level of technical leadership within and across divisions at the company. In this role you will deeply immerse in GitLab's product and internal engineering workflows to identify classes of problems that can be wholly or largely addressed by AI agents, validate them through rigorous experimentation in production-adjacent environments, and codify patterns that can be productized for our millions of users. You will act as a bridge between Architecture, Product, Infrastructure, and Data and ML teams, ensuring that agentic capabilities deliver durable value internally first and then scale reliably and securely to our customers. Additionally, the level for this role will be determined through the interview process and may be scoped as either Distinguished Engineer or Fellow Engineer based on the depth and breadth of experience demonstrated. What You'll Do * Define and continuously refine a company-wide technical vision for autonomous, agentic SDLC that aligns with GitLab's product strategy and Engineering job architecture. * Identify and prioritize non-linear productivity opportunities across the SDLC, from planning and coding to review, security, compliance, and operations, targeting 10x step changes rather than incremental gains. * Translate ambiguous problem spaces into concrete, iterable roadmaps in partnership with Product, AI and ML, and Architecture teams. * Lead hands-on experiments and prototypes to validate where agentic workflows can fully own or materially reshape engineering tasks, including autonomous MR authoring, test creation and triage, security remediation, release readiness, and incident response. * Design and implement reference architectures for agentic SDLC inside GitLab, including orchestration patterns, safety guardrails, observability, and human-in-the-loop controls. * Define evaluation frameworks using offline benchmarks and online experiments to measure correctness, latency, safety, cost, and productivity impact of agentic workflows. * Select and own a small set of high-impact internal use cases as pathfinders and drive them from concept through adoption to measurable productivity gains. * Work directly with engineering teams to embed agentic workflows into day-to-day development, ensuring they are trusted, observable, and resilient. * Define and track core productivity metrics such as cycle time, MTTR, and MR throughput, and link agentic interventions to real business outcomes. * Capture and codify reusable patterns, libraries, and playbooks that other teams can adopt with minimal friction. * Work with Product Management and Engineering leadership to convert proven internal patterns into product capabilities that can be safely and reliably offered to customers. * Ensure designs respect multi-tenant, compliance, and data governance requirements across GitLab.com and self-managed customers. * Serve as a point of escalation for complex technical and architectural decisions related to agentic workflows, AI safety, and large-scale systems integration. * Mentor Principal and Staff Engineers working on AI and agentic efforts, raising the overall bar for technical execution, experimentation rigor, and cross-team collaboration. * Write clear, opinionated design documents, architecture narratives, and decision records that help teams make aligned, high-quality decisions independently. * Represent GitLab in the broader ecosystem at conferences, standards groups, and open source communities on topics such as AI-assisted development, autonomous agents, and productivity measurement. * Partner with Security and Compliance to define guardrails, review processes, and monitoring for agentic features, ensuring responsible use of AI and protection of customer data. * Work with Reliability and SRE teams to ensure that agentic services are observable, debuggable, and resilient, and that failure modes degrade gracefully. What You'll Bring * 10+ years of software engineering experience, including 4+ years in a Staff, Principal, or equivalent senior technical leadership role. * Deep expertise in AI and ML systems, including large language models, agentic frameworks, and autonomous workflow design at production scale. * Proven track record of leading hands-on technical experimentation, including defining evaluation frameworks, running benchmarks, and translating findings into scalable architecture decisions. * Strong background in scalable, multi-tenant distributed systems, including service decomposition, fault tolerance, observability, and operational resilience. * Experience designing and implementing human-in-the-loop controls, safety guardrails, and responsible AI practices for production systems. * Demonstrated ability to drive cross-functional alignment across Engineering, Product, Infrastructure, and Data and ML teams on complex, ambiguous technical challenges. * Experience mentoring senior engineers and influencing technical direction across multiple teams or divisions without direct authority. * Ability to work effectively in a fully remote, globally distributed organization with excellent written and asynchronous communication skills. * Familiarity with GitLab's DevSecOps platform, CI/CD primitives, and the software development lifecycle is a strong plus. The base salary range for this role’s listed level is currently for residents of the United States only. This range is intended to reflect the role's base salary rate in locations throughout the US. Grade level and salary ranges are determined through interviews and a review of education, experience, knowledge, skills, abilities of the applicant, equity with other team members, alignment with market data, and geographic location. The base salary range does not include any bonuses, equity, or benefits. See more information on our benefits and equity. Sales roles are also eligible for incentive pay targeted at up to 100% of the offered base salary. United States Salary Range $260,000—$418,000 USD HOW GITLAB SUPPORTS FULL-TIME EMPLOYEES * 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  Please note that we welcome interest from candidates with varying levels of experience; many successful candidates do not meet every single requirement. Additionally, studies have shown that people from underrepresented groups are less likely to apply to a job unless they meet every single qualification. If you're excited about this role, please apply and allow our recruiters to assess your application. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Country Hiring Guidelines: GitLab hires new team members in countries around the world. All of our roles are remote, however some roles may carry specific location-based eligibility requirements. Our Talent Acquisition team can help answer any questions about location after starting the recruiting process.   Privacy Policy: Please review our Recruitment Privacy Policy. Your privacy is important to us. GitLab is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and is an affirmative action employer. GitLab’s policies and practices relating to recruitment, employment, career development and advancement, promotion, and retirement are based solely on merit, regardless of race, color, religion, ancestry, sex (including pregnancy, lactation, sexual orientation, gender identity, or gender expression), national origin, age, citizenship, marital status, mental or physical disability, genetic information (including family medical history), discharge status from the military, protected veteran status (which includes disabled veterans, recently separated veterans, active duty wartime or campaign badge veterans, and Armed Forces service medal veterans), or any other basis protected by law. GitLab will not tolerate discrimination or harassment based on any of these characteristics. See also GitLab’s EEO Policy and EEO is the Law. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please let us know during the recruiting process.

Gitlab

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. More than 50 million registered users and more than 50% of the Fortune 100* trust GitLab to ship better, more secure software faster. The same principles built into our products are reflected in how our team works: we embrace AI as a core productivity multiplier, with all team members expected to incorporate AI into their daily workflows to drive efficiency, innovation, and impact. GitLab is where careers accelerate, innovation flourishes, and every voice is valued. Our high-performance culture is driven by our values and continuous knowledge exchange, enabling our team members to reach their full potential while collaborating with industry leaders to solve complex problems. Co-create the future with us as we build technology that transforms how the world develops software. *Fortune 500® is a registered trademark of Fortune Media IP Limited, used under license. Claim based on GitLab data. Fortune 100 refers to the top 20% ranked companies in the 2025 Fortune 500 list, published in June 2025. Fortune and Fortune Media IP Limited are not affiliated with, and do not endorse products or services of GitLab. AN OVERVIEW OF THIS ROLE As Manager, Engineering, Nonlinear Productivity (Friction Elimination & Solutions), you’ll help GitLab break the linear relationship between headcount and engineering output. In this role, you’ll oversee the initiative’s forward-scanning work, reviewing GitLab’s software development lifecycle and code-generation workflows to spot recurring friction, test durable fixes, and identify internal solutions that could become customer-facing products. You’ll report to the Senior Manager or Director, Nonlinear Productivity and work at the intersection of engineering, developer productivity, AI-assisted development, and product. You’ll build a data-backed view of where technical interventions can have the highest leverage, test solutions through prototypes, drive validated fixes into internal adoption, and help build the case for productizing the strongest outcomes. WHAT YOU’LL DO * Survey GitLab’s internal software development lifecycle and code-generation workflows to identify structural friction early, and build a data-backed view of where technical interventions will have the highest leverage. * Evaluate build, buy, and adapt options for each opportunity, including emerging agentic and AI tooling, with a clear view of cost, risk, and durability. * Stand up prototypes and review architecture directly to test whether a proposed fix moves a target metric and represents a durable solution before GitLab makes broader engineering investment. * Hire and manage a small, high-caliber team, or operate as a hands-on working manager, with a focus on talent density over headcount. * Drive validated fixes from prototype to internal adoption by partnering with affected teams so solutions are relied on, used, and maintained. * Build the technical and business case for productizing internal fixes that prove durable, in partnership with product. * Document reusable learnings so successful internal fixes don’t remain tribal knowledge. * Report impact through changes in key metrics and progress on turning internal fixes into products, including a clear account of what didn’t work. WHAT YOU’LL BRING * Ability to use GitLab. * A track record of identifying and shipping technical fixes for developer productivity, continuous integration and continuous delivery, or platform friction, including problems you found before they were assigned. * Comfort operating with high ambiguity and no existing backlog, building the roadmap rather than executing one handed down. * People management experience, including in a small-team or working-manager capacity. * Technical depth to evaluate and prototype solutions directly, not only direct others toward them. * Product judgment to assess whether an internal tool could hold up for paying customers. * Familiarity with agentic or AI-assisted development tooling. * Experience moving an internal tool toward an external, customer-facing product is advantageous. ABOUT THE TEAM The Nonlinear Productivity team improves how GitLab engineers, and increasingly agents, build, review, and ship code. We test and scale durable technical fixes that improve our internal engineering output.  CAREER LADDER In this role, you can progress to Senior Manager, Nonlinear Productivity, with an expanded mandate across the full set of team metrics we use to track improvement. Additional details about our process can be found on our hiring page. HOW GITLAB SUPPORTS FULL-TIME EMPLOYEES * 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  Please note that we welcome interest from candidates with varying levels of experience; many successful candidates do not meet every single requirement. Additionally, studies have shown that people from underrepresented groups are less likely to apply to a job unless they meet every single qualification. If you're excited about this role, please apply and allow our recruiters to assess your application. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Country Hiring Guidelines: GitLab hires new team members in countries around the world. All of our roles are remote, however some roles may carry specific location-based eligibility requirements. Our Talent Acquisition team can help answer any questions about location after starting the recruiting process.   Privacy Policy: Please review our Recruitment Privacy Policy. Your privacy is important to us. GitLab is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and is an affirmative action employer. GitLab’s policies and practices relating to recruitment, employment, career development and advancement, promotion, and retirement are based solely on merit, regardless of race, color, religion, ancestry, sex (including pregnancy, lactation, sexual orientation, gender identity, or gender expression), national origin, age, citizenship, marital status, mental or physical disability, genetic information (including family medical history), discharge status from the military, protected veteran status (which includes disabled veterans, recently separated veterans, active duty wartime or campaign badge veterans, and Armed Forces service medal veterans), or any other basis protected by law. GitLab will not tolerate discrimination or harassment based on any of these characteristics. See also GitLab’s EEO Policy and EEO is the Law. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please let us know during the recruiting process.

Kickstarter

Kickstarter is the leading crowdfunding platform for creative projects across film, games, music, art, design, and technology. Since our founding in 2009, our mission to help bring creative projects to life has been powered by the people behind the work. Together, we’ve helped creators around the world launch creative projects that have generated billions of dollars in pledges. That same commitment extends inward. Rooted in shared values, Kickstarter invests in the growth and success of our team, treating employees as whole people and empowering them with the autonomy and space to participate in decisions that shape their work and our company. Kickstarter is seeking an experienced Senior Product Manager to join our team. The salary for this role in the United States is $180,353. ABOUT THE TEAM As part of the Product Management team at Kickstarter, you will be directly responsible for meaningful and ambitious outcomes that support our mission and vision. You will collaborate with engineers, design, insights, brand, and marketing to validate, build, and launch quality experiences. We value data-informed opinions, outcomes that matter, and building processes that make our products better. IN THIS ROLE, YOU WILL: * Drive growth initiatives across the backer journey optimising discovery conversion rates and user engagement across web and mobile platforms, with a particular focus on mobile as a primary channel. * Own the product roadmap for Kickstarter's mobile app experience, partnering closely with engineering to navigate cross-platform development decisions and ensure we're delivering consistent, high-quality experiences across iOS and Android efficiently. * Partner with marketing, insights, and engineering teams to develop and test growth hypotheses, using A/B testing and other experimental frameworks to validate approaches. * Own significant and complex business objectives (OKRs) that drive key growth metrics such as backer acquisition, engagement and retention, identifying and recommending success metrics that enable meaningful ways to measure progress through a strategic 6-month roadmap. * Communicate user problems, business opportunities, team roadmaps, on-going updates, and project/OKR results clearly and effectively to a variety of audiences (e.g., executive stakeholders, product team, people with and without technical expertise). * Manage important business relationships with leadership team, key stakeholders, and sometimes key third-party partners to achieve long-term company goals. * Work closely and collaboratively with a team of engineers, designers, and other product managers as well as non-technical stakeholders to plan, develop, and release work across web and mobile platforms. * Ensure new features are built with feedback from Outreach, Community Support, and Marketing, and work closely with the GTM teams on all features to ensure products are launched with the right messaging and impact. * Manage complex roll-outs, including coordinating QA and cross-platform releases (web and mobile apps), and working closely with cross-functional partners such as Legal, Product Marketing, Trust and Safety, and Community Support. About You * You have extensive experience as a product manager, with at least 3-5 years of experience in product management. * You have demonstrated experience driving growth for consumer-facing digital products, designing and running experiments to test growth hypotheses, and comfortable working with analytics tools to measure impact. * You have meaningful experience working on mobile products, including taking an app from 0 to 1, and understand what it takes to build excellent app experiences. You think strategically about cross-platform development, including the trade-offs, and can partner effectively with engineering to make aligned decisions. * You understand mobile and web platform dynamics and have experience optimising experiences across both. * You have experience working on marketplace or e-commerce products where understanding user motivations and reducing friction is critical. * You have experience leading cross-functional teams with confidence, using your ability to influence and motivate. * You have strong written and oral communication skills and are able to convey user problems, business opportunities, team roadmaps, on-going updates, and project/OKR results clearly to a variety of audiences. * You have significant experience managing through ambiguity by shaping user insights/research or opportunity areas into actionable projects. * You are comfortable operating in technical discussions and spaces, evaluating technical product tradeoffs in partnership with engineering managers. * You have a solid track record of executing and rolling out products and features that delivered positive and measurable impact to users. * You have substantial experience with the full product development life cycle, especially product validation, including light-weight testing and experimentation and iterative releases. * You have experience managing complex roll-out processes, including QA and cross-platform releases (web and mobile apps), and coordinating closely with cross-functional partners (e.g., Product Marketing, Customer Service, Sales). * You have deep empathy for our diverse community of creators and experience working closely with engaged user groups. And have ideally worked with a passionate user group (e.g., sellers, creators, or similar communities) within a two-sided marketplace. WHAT YOU'LL ENJOY * A fully remote workforce with plenty of opportunities to get to know your colleagues * 100% employer-paid health plan offerings * 16 paid vacation days, 10 sick days, and a company-wide winter break between Christmas and New Year’s * 25 volunteer hours each year to give back to your community * 16 weeks of parental leave plus fertility/family planning resources * Annual stipends including a Remote Working & Wellness Stipend of $3,000 USD (prorated) each calendar year for expenses related to remote working, wellness, health, and fitness and a $500 Role Development Stipend * Kickstarter currently operates with a 4-day workweek, a model that aligns with our belief in a healthy work-life balance and gives staff the space to be more than their work Incredibly talented and inspiring colleagues who know how to blend their creative endeavors into their work You can read more about our benefits and working at Kickstarter at our Jobs page: https://jobs.kickstarter.com/   Our Fully Virtual Team We’re currently able to support employees based in the following US locations: CA, CO, CT, GA, IL, MA, MD, NC, NJ, NY, OR, SC, VA, VT, and WA. We're also able to support employees in the United Kingdom. If you live in—or are willing to move to—any of these locations, we look forward to your application! If there is a required or preferred location for an open role, it will be listed in the job description. Kickstarter is an equal opportunity employer. As part of our commitment to fight for equality, we work to ensure a fair and consistent interview process. We celebrate diversity, and we are committed to an inclusive work environment. Reminder to applicants: Authentic communications from Kickstarter will always originate from official Kickstarter email domains (@kickstarter.com). Exercise caution and verify the legitimacy of anyone who claims to be representing Kickstarter on other platforms. Please reach out to Kickstarter’s Help Center to report potentially fraudulent contact here: https://help.kickstarter.com/hc/en-us/requests/new