Principal Product Manager, Security - GTM at 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 a Principal Product Manager, Security - GTM, you will help GitLab turn product strategy into business impact across our security offerings. This role is designed for a seasoned product manager who can work across Customer Success, Solutions Architecture, Account Executives, Research and Development, Data Analytics, and Finance to understand where growth is working, where it is blocked, and what needs to change. You will help debug the business across areas such as expansions, up-tiers, and new logo motions, then shape solutions that may include product changes, pricing and packaging updates, promotions, or positioning. This is a principal-level opportunity for someone who has moved beyond feature delivery and wants to help make products successful in the market. In your first year, you will be expected to build a clear view of key business drivers, identify high-value opportunities to improve how our security products perform, and create stronger alignment across product managers working on related problems across the platform. What you’ll do • Lead investigations into business performance across growth motions such as expansions, up-tiers, and new logo activity to identify high-impact opportunities and set priorities for the security portfolio. • Partner with Customer Success, Solutions Architecture, Account Executives, customers, data analytics, and finance to understand business patterns and turn insights into action. • Drive product management work that improves product-market fit and supports stronger go-to-market execution for GitLab security offerings, with a focus on improving adoption, retention, and growth performance. • Recommend solutions across multiple levers, including product changes, pricing and packaging, promotions, and marketing or positioning inputs. • Establish strategy and alignment across product managers on related problems to reduce silos, prevent duplicate efforts, and build momentum toward more cohesive solutions that strengthen business impact. • Guide discovery on shared customer problems across scanners and adjacent security capabilities in the platform. • Lead prioritization discussions with Research and Development and other product leaders to shape the roadmap around high-value opportunities that balance customer needs with business outcomes. • Communicate findings, trade-offs, and recommendations clearly to stakeholders across product, technical, and go-to-market teams. • Mentor other product managers in GTM problem-solving, market insight, and cross-functional execution to build stronger product leadership across the security organization. What you’ll bring • Experience in product management with clear exposure to go-to-market problem solving, including work tied to business performance, customer adoption, or commercial outcomes. • Knowledge of security markets, including experience in application security, cloud security, or related areas within a security-focused business. • Ability to work effectively with cross-functional partners across product, engineering, Customer Success, Solutions Architecture, sales, finance, analytics, and marketing. • Skill in using data to diagnose problems, evaluate opportunities, and support product and business decisions. • Experience shaping outcomes beyond feature development, including pricing and packaging, promotions, positioning, or other market-facing levers. • Ability to identify patterns across a portfolio, align overlapping efforts, and guide teams toward more unified solutions. • Experience in customer-facing work, including gathering field feedback, synthesizing themes, and translating insights into clear product direction. • Experience in applying transferable product management skills across different company stages or adjacent domains, with demonstrated business-oriented decision-making. About the team This team sits at the intersection of product strategy, security domain expertise, and go-to-market execution at GitLab. It works across multiple product managers and partner functions to improve how security capabilities perform in the market, with a focus on understanding business drivers, aligning related product efforts, and solving customer problems more consistently across the platform. The team collaborates asynchronously with stakeholders across regions and functions, especially product, Research and Development, finance, analytics, and field teams, and is focused on helping GitLab make better decisions about where to invest, how to reduce overlap, and how to strengthen outcomes across our security business. 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$145,600—$312,000 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 • 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. 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