Director of Application Development

Who We Are: InGenius Prep was founded in 2013 by law students at Harvard and Yale. Since then, the company has grown to a team of more than 200 full-time employees and 600 part-time employees, with offices in the U.S., Canada, China, and other countries. What We Do: Our programs offer strategic mentorship, academic support, and admissions guidance for students from middle school through graduate school.  How You’ll Help: The Director of Application Counseling is a critical leadership role responsible for the end-to-end management, training, and quality assurance of our counseling network. Crucially, they will drive initiatives to enhance customer experience, operational efficiency, and student outcomes in the Application Counseling work. What You’ll Do: * Management: Lead, manage, and develop counselors, including oversight of onboarding, training, performance management, and ongoing professional development. Establish relevant management and quality control infrastructure to establish proactive management structures and support other managers in management work * Training: Improve training oversight and content to help new counselors develop expertise in admissions counseling content and customer experience * Strategy & Escalation: Evaluate counselor work directly and troubleshoot family complaints, including review of applications from counselors who escalate their need for additional oversight * Internal Programming: Lead special workshops and bootcamps for AC students as well as support programs for counselors  * Direct Student Work: Work with a small caseload of specialized students * Data: Analyze program performance, mentor utilization, and client feedback to inform continuous improvement. You'll be a good fit if you: * A bachelor’s degree from a highly selective institution; advanced degrees are a plus. * 5+ years of experience in education, admissions consulting, management consulting, coaching, client services, or another high-performance, client-facing environment. * Prior people-management experience, with a demonstrated ability to coach, motivate, and hold high standards. * Strong strategic thinking skills paired with the ability to execute and operationalize ideas. * Exceptional communication skills and executive presence, particularly when working with high-net-worth families and senior stakeholders. * High emotional intelligence, sound judgment, and comfort navigating complex or high-stakes situations. * Comfort operating in a fast-growing, evolving organization where structure is actively being built. Location: This is a Remote position, ideally located in the East Coast or Pacific Time Zone. Work is spread throughout the day so you should be prepared to work in the evenings and weekends.  Benefits: InGenius Prep offers employees a competitive salary along with paid time off, parental leave, flexible working hours, professional development opportunities, and a fun, collaborative work environment. Compensation: Base Salary: $80,000+ What We Believe: InGenius Prep is an equal opportunity employer, and all qualified candidates will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or veteran status.

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 Director of Engineering, Security Factory, you will lead the engineering organization responsible for GitLab’s customer-facing security capabilities across our AI-powered DevSecOps platform. You’ll help shape how customers detect, prioritize, and remediate vulnerabilities across modern software workflows by guiding teams that build proprietary scanners, AI-driven detection engines, agentic remediation flows, and supporting security foundations. Reporting to the VP of Engineering, Sec section, you’ll set the engineering vision and roadmap for a distributed group of nine teams, including engineering managers, and create the conditions for strong delivery, sound technical direction, and healthy team growth. Some examples of our projects: * Advanced proprietary scanners for Static Application Security Testing, Software Composition Analysis, Secret Detection, and related AI and machine learning detection engines * Agentic security flows for autofix and guided remediation, plus research that strengthens AI security, threat intelligence, vulnerability management, and security foundations WHAT YOU’LL DO * Set the engineering vision and multi-quarter roadmap across teams working on proprietary scanners, AI-driven security workflows, research functions, vulnerability management, and security foundations. * Lead a distributed engineering organization of managers and individual contributors, with a focus on team performance, engagement, and career development. * Drive architectural decisions for AI and machine learning detection engines, agentic remediation flows, and scalable scanning infrastructure. * Partner with product management to define priorities, shape requirements, and deliver security capabilities for customers in regulated and security-conscious environments. * Own the engineering delivery of GitLab’s proprietary application security scanners, agentic remediation workflows, and AI Security Research efforts. * Represent the Security Factory stage in cross-functional planning, executive reviews, security disclosures, and customer conversations. * Establish engineering standards for delivery, observability, incident response, scanner quality, and code quality. * Contribute to GitLab’s transparent, async-first way of working through issues, merge requests, and the GitLab handbook. WHAT YOU’LL BRING * Experience leading engineering organizations with multiple teams and managers in a distributed environment. * Strong understanding of application security fundamentals, including Static Application Security Testing, Software Composition Analysis, secret detection, vulnerability management workflows, and software supply chain security. * Experience building detection, analysis, or scanning systems in a software as a service or DevSecOps environment, including trade-offs across precision, recall, latency, and scale. * Direct experience shipping a customer-facing AI or machine learning product feature tied to detection or remediation quality outcomes. * Ability to partner closely with product management on roadmap planning, prioritization, and requirements in a product-led context. * Strong written communication skills and comfort leading through clear documentation in a remote, async-first organization. * Collaborative leadership style that supports teams, gives direct feedback, and aligns with GitLab’s values. * Familiarity with agentic AI systems, AI agent orchestration, threat intelligence research, or open source security tooling is useful, and we welcome candidates with adjacent or transferable experience. ABOUT THE TEAM The Security Factory group builds the customer-facing security capabilities of GitLab’s AI-powered DevSecOps platform. The organization includes nine teams working across proprietary scanners, AI-driven detection, agentic remediation, research, vulnerability management, and security foundations, and it collaborates asynchronously across regions with product management and other cross-functional partners. The team is focused on improving detection quality, scaling security workflows for enterprise use, and strengthening how GitLab helps customers secure the software supply chain. For more on how this team works, see the Sec Engineering Handbook 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. 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