Principal Product Manager, Orbit

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About the role

  • Principal Product Manager defining Orbit’s software lifecycle context graph at GitLab, an intelligent DevSecOps orchestration platform. Driving technical strategy, adoption, pricing, and AI-powered developer experiences.

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
  • Shape how Orbit works across GitLab.com, Self-Managed, Dedicated, GitLab Duo Agent Platform, MCP-based external agents, APIs, and developer tooling
  • 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, APIs, 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
  • Lead discovery with developers, engineering leaders, platform teams, security teams, and technical executives
  • Define target customers, priority use cases, differentiated value, and the path to product-market fit
  • Partner with Product Marketing, Sales, Solutions Engineering, Customer Success, Pricing, and Finance on positioning, packaging, pricing, launch, adoption, and expansion
  • Develop business cases and track adoption, retention, usage, customer value, and revenue outcomes
  • Support executive briefings, analyst conversations, customer workshops, and field enablement
  • Align teams and executive leaders around recommendations and tradeoffs
  • Mentor other product managers and represent GitLab's product vision in customer and industry 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
  • 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
  • Customer-first approach and 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
  • Candidates must be residents of the United States or Canada, based on the listed location

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

Job type

Full Time

Experience level

Lead

Salary

$203,200 - $345,600 per year

Degree requirement

No Education Requirement

Tech skills

Distributed Systems

Location requirements

RemoteUnited States

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