Principal Product Manager, Application Security Testing at Gitlab

GitLab is an open-core software company that develops the most comprehensive AI-powered DevSecOps Platform, used by more than 100,000 organizations. Our mission is to enable everyone to contribute to and co-create the software that powers our world. When everyone can contribute, consumers become contributors, significantly accelerating human progress. Our platform unites teams and organizations, breaking down barriers and redefining what's possible in software development. Thanks to products like Duo Enterprise and Duo Agent Platform, customers get AI benefits at every stage of the SDLC. 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. An overview of this role As a Principal Product Manager in GitLab’s Security and Compliance section, you will be a senior product leader focused on driving growth and value realization across the Security and Compliance portfolio, particularly as it contributes to GitLab Ultimate. You will partner closely with the VP of Product for Security and Compliance and work horizontally with product managers, UX, engineering, and go-to-market teams to align independently owned initiatives into coherent customer workflows and clear portfolio priorities. Rather than owning a single feature area, you will operate at a portfolio level, connecting work across teams, identifying gaps and opportunities, and helping ensure that product investments translate into measurable customer and business impact. You will bring deep application security expertise to shape strategy in areas that lack clear ownership, including turning internal security capabilities and research into customer-facing products, identifying and validating emerging security use cases, and helping guide new ideas from early exploration to product-market fit. You will also help strengthen product-led partnerships with external vendors where they meaningfully expand customer value. A core part of this role is elevating product decision quality across the team. You will coach and review PM work on areas that materially impact portfolio outcomes, helping sharpen problem framing, product requirements, go-to-market thinking, and escalation handling. You will use AI-native workflows, including tools like GitLab Duo and lightweight prototyping, to accelerate discovery, validation, and communication from concept to concrete outcomes. Examples of the kinds of initiatives you’ll influence: • Turning internal security tools, practices, and research into differentiated, customer-facing capabilities within GitLab’s DevSecOps platform • Creating a repeatable path from early innovation ideas in Security and Compliance to validated products ready for broader investment and scale What you’ll do • Lead product strategy across the Security and Compliance portfolio, with a focus on application security testing as a whole, to drive cohesive roadmaps and measurable growth in adoption and customer value. • Own end-to-end definition and delivery for high-impact initiatives such as packaging internal security capabilities for customers, strengthening vulnerability research, and incubating emerging products from ideation to product-market fit. Ensure clear success criteria, on-time delivery, and demonstrable impact on customer security outcomes and product adoption. • Partner closely with Product Managers in scanners to mentor, coach, and review their product work, including product requirement documents, roadmap decisions, and go-to-market thinking, to elevate the quality and consistency of product execution and improve the success of launches. • Collaborate with cross-functional partners in engineering, design, partnerships, and go-to-market teams to shape positioning, launch plans, and strategic collaborations that expand the Security and Compliance business through increased adoption and engagement. • Drive a clear strategy for vulnerability research and security partnerships, working with internal and external stakeholders to identify opportunities and translate them into product outcomes that measurably improve product quality, coverage, and differentiation. • Use AI-first tools and workflows to quickly explore ideas, create prototypes, and communicate concepts. Increase the speed and quality of product discovery and decision-making by tracking improvements in cycle time and validation effectiveness. • Build strong relationships across GitLab to influence without direct authority, connect work across teams, and help resolve complex escalations in a constructive, transparent way that reduces blockers and improves resolution time and stakeholder satisfaction. What you’ll bring • Product management experience in application security or related security domains, with a track record of owning products from strategy through execution. • Background working across multiple security product areas or portfolios, not just a single feature, including exposure to topics like code scanning, dependency scanning, and security testing. • Experience operating at a broad, cross-functional scope, partnering closely with go-to-market, marketing, partnerships, and internal security teams to shape positioning and drive adoption. • Demonstrated ability to coach, mentor, and elevate other product managers, including reviewing product requirements and supporting them through escalations and go to market decisions. • Comfort acting as a right-hand partner to senior leadership, translating high-level business goals into clear product priorities and helping connect strategy across a portfolio. • Strong communication and relationship-building skills, with an interest in doing the legwork to build trust and influence without authority. • Hands-on, AI-first mindset using modern tools to prototype, visualize ideas, and communicate product concepts quickly, for example, by spinning up lightweight demos or UI drafts. • Openness to candidates from adjacent domains who bring deep product expertise, transferable security experience, and an interest in growing further into application security and DevSecOps. About the team The Security and Compliance product team owns a broad portfolio of security and compliance capabilities within GitLab's DevSecOps platform, including application security scanners (code scanning, software composition analysis, and dependency scanning), secret detection, authorization, authentication, and other security features. The team is also expanding into vulnerability research, internal security productization, innovation incubation, and strategic partnerships. You'll join a distributed team of product managers who report to the VP of Product for Security and Compliance. You'll collaborate closely with engineering, design, go-to-market, and partnerships teams across time zones in an asynchronous, documentation-first way. Our focus is on elevating how we build and ship security capabilities within GitLab, improving how we coach and develop product managers in the section, and exploring new opportunities to turn internal security expertise and emerging ideas into products with strong market fit. Remote-GlobalThe 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$145,600—$312,000 USD How GitLab will support you • 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 • Home office support 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. 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