Senior Product Manager - CRM & GTM Systems
About the job
- At least 7 years of experience in Salesforce product management, business systems analysis, or Marketing/Revenue Operations technology roles, with demonstrated growth into product ownership.
- Strong working knowledge of Lead-to-Opportunity processes, including lead capture, scoring, routing, and conversion, and how they connect marketing execution to sales pipeline.
- Hands-on familiarity with the GTM technology stack, including Salesforce Sales Cloud, marketing automation platforms such as Marketo, HubSpot, or Pardot, lead scoring and routing tools, and data enrichment or intent providers.
- Good understanding of the quoting process.
- Demonstrated ability to own and communicate multi-quarter internal product roadmaps to senior business and technology stakeholders.
- Proven experience leading initiatives end-to-end with multiple stakeholders and competing priorities, especially across Marketing and Sales.
- Sufficient technical fluency to engage meaningfully with engineering on API design, data model decisions, and integration trade-offs, without needing to write code.
- Experience mentoring or upskilling analysts and BSAs.
- Ability to engage deeply with engineering and architecture teams on API design, data modeling, and integration patterns.
- Define, own, and maintain the multi-quarter internal product roadmap for the Lead-to-Opportunity domain, covering lead capture, enrichment, scoring, routing, conversion, opportunity, and the broader GTM technology stack integrated with Salesforce.
- Translate business strategy from Marketing, Sales Development, RevOps, and GTM leadership into sequenced, prioritized system capabilities with clear outcomes and success metrics.
- Define the domain's strategic priorities each quarter and half, balancing net-new capability delivery, stabilization, and technical debt reduction with transparent trade-off frameworks.
- Drive quarterly planning ceremonies, partnering with Engineering Managers and BSAs to align capacity with roadmap commitments.
- Own domain-level documentation, including process maps, current-vs-future-state lead lifecycle flows, and decision logs that align stakeholders and the team on scope and ownership.
- Serve as the primary product voice for all Lead-to-Opportunity and GTM Systems initiatives, partnering with Marketing, Marketing Operations, SDR/BDR leadership, Sales, and RevOps.
- Lead discovery, requirements workshops, and business process design sessions, translating complex GTM and marketing operations requirements into actionable system specifications.
- Own the decision layer between business needs and engineering delivery, resolving ambiguity with structured frameworks and documented decisions.
- Run structured stakeholder alignment sessions to surface trade-offs, build consensus, and drive open decisions to closure.
- Represent the domain in cross-team planning and leadership reviews, explaining technical constraints to business stakeholders and business context to engineers.
- Act as a product craft mentor and senior thought partner for the BSA team, upskilling analysts in product thinking, requirements structuring, acceptance criteria definition, and roadmap communication.
- Model and codify reusable templates, rituals such as backlog grooming and roadmap reviews, and a rubric for BSA development.
- Give BSAs increasing ownership over pieces of the roadmap as they develop, with regular feedback and structured check-ins.
- Partner with leadership to evolve the team's operating model from project-execution-focused to product-thinking-led.
- Lead initiatives end-to-end through discovery, requirements, prioritization, solution design review, user acceptance testing, launch, and post-launch measurement.
- Write and maintain user stories, acceptance criteria, and lead-flow and data-flow diagrams that engineering and administrators can build against without ambiguity.
- Manage backlog intake requests from Marketing and Sales Development, triage them by impact and effort, and defend prioritization decisions to stakeholders.
- Define success metrics for each initiative, including lead response time, routing accuracy, lead-to-opportunity conversion rate, data quality, and SDR/BDR adoption, and report on outcomes.
- Identify and de-risk dependencies across adjacent domains, including campaign operations, data enrichment vendors, and opportunity handoff to sales.
- Own user acceptance testing strategy and acceptance criteria with BSAs, ensuring system changes meet business requirements before production release.
- Partner with Enterprise Architects and Engineering Managers on Salesforce and MarTech integration design, including marketing automation platform-to-Salesforce synchronization, data enrichment pipelines, and lead scoring and routing engines.
- Bring informed opinions on GTM platform architecture trade-offs based on domain knowledge.
- Stay current on platform roadmaps for Salesforce Sales Cloud and connected MarTech tools, identifying opportunities to use native capabilities before custom builds.
- Maintain domain-level role-and-responsibility clarity across US/India technical managers, BSAs, and adjacent pods, and update it as the team and scope evolve.
- Experience with AI-assisted development workflows, data governance and compliance for lead data, or prior people-management experience.
About the company
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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What believers are saying
- September 2026 revenue hit $286.3 million, up 21%, with record gross bookings.
- Net ARR grew 42% and first orders doubled in GitLab's latest quarter.
- GitLab Flex committed over $20 million in six weeks, validating hybrid consumption pricing.
What critics are saying
- June 2026 layoffs cut 14% and exited 22 countries, disrupting execution.
- Microsoft GitHub and Atlassian own adjacent developer workflows, pressuring GitLab's platform consolidation.
- If Duo monetization stalls, AI spending becomes a cost center before FY2027 growth slows.
What makes GitLab unique
- GitLab 19.4 unifies agentic automation across CI, security, merge requests, and projects.
- GitLab Duo Agent Platform ships with governed, local, traceable AI inside enterprise workflows.
- GitLab's single-application DevSecOps stack keeps code, security, and compliance context together.
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GitLab has announced new capabilities for what it calls a "governed software factory", aimed at helping organisations deploy AI-generated software whilst managing risk and cost. The platform now includes goal-driven workflows that automate progression across the software development lifecycle, reducing handoffs between stages. Key additions include GitLab Artifact Central, which centralises containers and packages alongside source code, and GitLab Dependency Firewall, which blocks malicious or non-compliant packages before they enter builds. GitLab Secrets Manager, now generally available, secures credentials in one location. The platform will integrate Anthropic's Claude Mythos 5 and 5.1 models for security workflows. New Impact Analytics tools show AI investment costs and outcomes by team and model. GitLab reports active users of agentic software development grew 200% year-over-year over the past three months, with over 70 million developers using the platform.
GitLab reported Q2 revenues of $286.3 million, up 21.3% year-on-year and exceeding analyst expectations by 4.8%. The company delivered strong billings results and EPS guidance for the next quarter. Chief executive officer Bill Staples highlighted record gross bookings and net annual recurring revenue growth exceeding 40% year-on-year. He noted that as AI drives more software creation, GitLab's platform provides increasingly valuable context, security, governance, and control for human and AI agent collaboration. The DevSecOps platform provider's shares rose 3.3% following the earnings announcement. The quarter was part of a strong performance across the software development sector, where 12 tracked companies collectively beat revenue estimates by 3.2%. GitLab operates with an all-remote workforce and provides tools helping development, operations, and security teams collaborate to build and deploy software.
GitLab went public in October 2021 at $77 per share, valuing the company at roughly $11 billion. Sound Ventures, the investment firm co-founded by Ashton Kutcher, backed GitLab six years earlier during its $1.5 million seed round in July 2015. Khosla Ventures led that early financing, with Joe Montana's Liquid 2 Ventures also participating. At the time, GitLab had fewer than 10 team members and was still developing its software development collaboration tools. GitLab's shares closed at $103.89 on their first trading day, giving the company a market value of $14.9 billion, according to Reuters. However, neither GitLab nor Sound Ventures disclosed the size of the firm's investment or when shares were sold, making it impossible to calculate Kutcher's actual return.
GitLab has released version 19.4, introducing agentic automation tools alongside Model Context Protocol server tools in public beta under its GitLab Duo Agent Platform. The new tools allow agents to automate tasks across continuous integration and continuous delivery, merge requests, work items, vulnerabilities, and projects, all governed by tool-level rules. GitLab has made its Credits usage visibility feature generally available. The company also announced that its new GitLab-hosted open-weight models can deliver up to four times more calls per credit whilst maintaining performance comparable to frontier models.