Full-Time

Lead Product Marketing Manager

AI

Updated on 5/13/2026

GitLab

GitLab

1,001-5,000 employees

Unified DevOps platform for CI/CD

Compensation Overview

$139.2k - $196k/yr

Remote in USA + 1 more

More locations: Remote in Canada

Remote

Category
Growth & Marketing (2)
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Required Skills
LLM
MLOps
Machine Learning
DevOps
Requirements
  • Strong product marketing experience owning complex, technical B2B Software as a Service products from discovery through launch, with proven success in usage-based monetization, consumption pricing models, and go-to-market strategies that drive measurable revenue impact in AI or developer tools markets.
  • Deep understanding of artificial intelligence and machine learning technologies, agentic workflows, large language model orchestration, and the software development lifecycle, with practical exposure to capabilities such as artificial intelligence coding assistants, agentic automation, multi-agent systems, Model Context Protocol, and intelligent orchestration concepts.
  • Demonstrated AI-first working style: you already use AI agents as core to how you develop positioning, conduct research, analyze competitors, and create content.
  • Experience across multiple domains within DevSecOps, enabling you to position AI capabilities across the complete software lifecycle from planning through deployment and operations.
  • Proven experience positioning platform solutions with ability to articulate architectural advantages of unified platforms with complete context over fragmented toolchains with tool-specific AI agents.
  • Strong understanding of key personas including platform engineering leaders, DevOps directors, AI/ML leaders, and developers, and how they evaluate, purchase, and adopt AI solutions across different organizational AI maturity levels (evaluating AI, using AI coding tools, AI-first organizations).
  • Experience working with large B2B enterprise customers navigating AI transformation, translating their challenges with fragmented trust, context, regulations, and budgets into clear positioning, differentiated messaging, and scalable go-to-market strategies.
  • Track record of successfully launching new products, usage-based pricing models, or consumption-based offerings, including defining monetization strategy, coordinating partner ecosystem activities, and measuring business impact through pipeline generation, usage metrics, and revenue growth.
  • Ability to synthesize qualitative feedback, product usage data, win/loss analysis, and market research into clear, actionable messaging frameworks, pricing recommendations, consumption model optimization, and revenue plays that address both technical and business buyer needs.
  • Strong written and verbal communication skills, with ability to explain complex AI concepts (agentic workflows, unified data models, intelligent orchestration, MCP integration) to both technical and non-technical audiences through presentations, content, and enablement materials.
  • Familiarity with AI coding tools landscape and ability to position GitLab's team-level orchestration across the complete software lifecycle.
  • Strategic thinking about market opportunities in AI for software teams, competitive positioning against both AI coding tools and DevOps platforms, and business model innovation around usage-based pricing that demonstrates clear customer value.
  • Proven experience being self-directed and working with minimal supervision, able to coordinate across many teams and lead cross-functional initiatives.
  • Data-driven approach, using data to measure results, inform decision-making, and develop strategy.
  • Openness to learning, with transferable skills from related areas such as MLOps, platform engineering, or developer experience, and a self-directed approach to staying current on AI industry trends, agentic AI developments, and enterprise AI adoption patterns.
Responsibilities
  • Collaborate on an end-to-end go-to-market strategy and execution for GitLab Duo Agent Platform and AI capabilities, emphasizing how intelligent orchestration enables software teams and their AI agents to stay in flow across the complete software lifecycle—addressing the AI Paradox where faster coding doesn't translate to faster delivery when the rest of the lifecycle remains fragmented.
  • Lead positioning and narrative for GitLab's AI capabilities, articulating how we bring software teams and their AI agents together, eliminate gaps between traditionally-manual software lifecycle stages, and unify DevOps, Security, and AI workflows into a single orchestrated system where teams orchestrate from above while agents execute within.
  • Develop and execute go-to-market strategies for usage-based AI monetization and consumption-based offerings that demonstrate clear customer value.
  • Partner with Product Management, Sales, Customer Success, and Engineering to understand how customers are navigating AI modernization journeys, validate market problems around toolchain fragmentation and tool-specific AI agents, and translate them into clear messaging, revenue plays, pricing strategies, and launch priorities.
  • Build and continuously refine compelling positioning and messaging for AI capabilities, including persona-specific content for platform engineering leaders, DevOps directors, technology executives, and developer teams.
  • Define and execute comprehensive go-to-market plans for new AI capabilities, agents, workflows, and usage-based offerings, ensuring launches are timely, impactful, and tightly aligned with sales, field marketing, partner ecosystem, and digital marketing motions while delivering measurable pipeline and revenue impact.
  • Serve as the subject matter expert for AI and intelligent orchestration within Product Marketing, synthesizing analyst feedback, market trends, competitive insights, and customer proof points into differentiated narratives that position GitLab's architectural advantages over AI coding tools and fragmented toolchain approaches.
  • Create and maintain high-impact sales enablement materials such as pitches, playbooks, FAQs, objection-handling guides, use case libraries, and pricing and packaging comparison guides that help scale AI-focused sales motions and accelerate deal velocity.
  • Build distinctive external thought leadership grounded in your own practice of using AI agents — sharing original insights from hands-on experimentation. You'll speak, write, and brief from a practitioner's perspective that gives GitLab's voice authenticity and specificity in a market full of abstract AI narratives.
  • Partner with Product Marketing Managers on AI positioning, usage-based monetization, and go-to-market strategies within your area of expertise.
  • Lead complex, cross-functional initiatives involving sales, product, growth, and marketing teams to drive AI adoption and revenue.

GitLab provides a unified DevOps platform that brings together the tools needed for software development, including code hosting, collaboration, CI/CD, issue tracking, and security, all in one application. It works by offering a single subscription-based platform where teams can plan, write, test, review, and deploy code through automated pipelines, reducing the need to manage separate tools. This differs from many competitors that require using a collection of separate products; GitLab consolidates these capabilities into one integrated solution, helping teams work more efficiently. The company’s goal is to help organizations speed up software delivery and improve collaboration by simplifying the DevOps process and continuously updating the platform with new features and improvements.

Company Size

1,001-5,000

Company Stage

IPO

Headquarters

San Francisco, California

Founded

2014

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Simplify's Take

What believers are saying

  • GitLab surpassed $1B ARR with expanding free cash flow and enterprise adoption.
  • Version 18.10 enables free tier access to agentic AI via affordable GitLab Credits.
  • Bernstein SocGen reiterated Outperform rating with $60 target on March 9, 2026.

What critics are saying

  • GitLab's Act 2 cuts 30% workforce, triggering talent exodus to GitHub within 3-6 months.
  • Microsoft GitHub bundles Copilot into Azure, eroding 40% YoY new customer growth.
  • Atlassian Jira integrations lure enterprises away with superior project management.

What makes GitLab unique

  • GitLab delivers complete DevSecOps in single application with unified UI and data store.
  • GitLab Duo Agent Platform embeds AI agents across full software lifecycle with governance.
  • Open core model drives 50+ million users and continuous community innovations.

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The Associated Press
Apr 14th, 2026
GitLab partners with Google Cloud to power AI agents with Vertex AI models

GitLab has expanded its collaboration with Google Cloud to integrate Vertex AI models into its GitLab Duo Agent Platform. Google Cloud customers can now use Vertex AI models within GitLab and count that usage towards existing cloud commitments. The integration allows AI agents in GitLab's platform to access Vertex AI's Model Garden, including Gemini models, whilst maintaining GitLab's governance controls. Agents can draw context from issues, code repositories and CI pipelines without leaving the platform, with all actions subject to existing access controls and audit logging. Self-hosted customers can use GitLab's Bring Your Own Model option to connect approved models. GitLab's AI Gateway runs on Google Cloud infrastructure including GKE and Cloud Run. The partnership aims to provide enterprises with AI agents that combine strong model performance with enterprise governance requirements.

Yahoo Finance
Mar 31st, 2026
GitLab files $207.7M ESOP shelf registration for 10.2M shares amid 54.6% yearly decline

GitLab has filed a $207.7 million shelf registration for 10.2 million Class A shares tied to an employee stock ownership plan, putting potential dilution in investors' focus. The filing comes as GitLab's shares have declined 54.61% over the past year, trading at $21.63. Recent momentum shows improvement, with one-day and seven-day returns of 3.99% and 4.70% respectively, contrasting sharply with a 90-day decline of 42.37%. One valuation narrative suggests GitLab is 85.6% undervalued, citing a fair value of $150 based on open-source technology adoption and its DevSecOps system security platform. However, this outlook faces challenges from the company's recent losses of $55.96 million and uncertainty around cybersecurity spending.

Yahoo Finance
Mar 26th, 2026
GitLab launches version 18.10 with affordable agentic AI access

GitLab has released version 18.10, making its agentic AI capabilities more accessible and affordable across the software development lifecycle. The update allows organisations on the free tier to access the GitLab Duo Agent platform through a monthly GitLab Credits commitment, enabling teams to scale development within budget constraints. GitLab Credits provides developers with visibility into AI agents and flows whilst connecting AI activity to software delivery work. On 9 March, Bernstein SocGen Group reiterated an Outperform rating with a $60 price target, citing strong adoption of GitLab Duo and durable strategic positioning. However, ARK Investment Management reduced its stake by 75% between Q3 and Q4 2025, from 3.44 million shares to 864,000 shares.

Yahoo Finance
Mar 7th, 2026
GitLab launches agentic AI programme and $400M buyback as revenue tops $1B

GitLab has launched an expanded Managed Service Provider Partner Programme focused on agentic AI deployment across the software development lifecycle, whilst introducing its first $400 million share repurchase programme. The company reported annual recurring revenue surpassing $1 billion. The MSP Partner Programme targets regulated and compliance-focused environments, allowing service providers to integrate AI into enterprise software development. The initiative positions GitLab against competitors like Microsoft GitHub and Atlassian in the DevSecOps space. The buyback, funded through cash, short-term investments and operating cash flow, follows fiscal 2027 guidance indicating slower revenue growth and lower earnings than expected. The programme reflects GitLab's strategy to strengthen its DevSecOps platform through AI-driven features whilst deploying capital through repurchases.

Yahoo Finance
Mar 6th, 2026
CrowdStrike posts first GAAP profit of $38.7M while GitLab plunges 9% on slowing growth guidance

CrowdStrike held steady in premarket trading, rising 0.65%, after reporting Q4 revenue of $1.305 billion, up 23% year-over-year, and its first GAAP net income of $38.7 million. The cybersecurity firm's annual recurring revenue reached $5.25 billion, up 24%, with net new ARR of $330.7 million in Q4, up 47%. Meanwhile, GitLab plunged 8.6% as its FY2027 revenue growth guidance of 15% disappointed investors, slowing significantly from FY2026's 25.81% growth rate. CrowdStrike's Falcon Flex platform showed strong momentum, with ending ARR of $1.69 billion, up over 120% year-over-year. The company's FY27 revenue guidance of $5.867 to $5.928 billion met market expectations. Both software stocks had been under pressure heading into earnings, with CrowdStrike down roughly 16.5% year-to-date before the results.