Staff Technical Program Manager

About the role

Join GitLab as a Staff Technical Program Manager, where you'll drive cross-functional portfolios and programs across the engineering organization. You'll partner closely with engineering and product organizations, create structure in ambiguous spaces, and communicate program status to senior stakeholders. This role offers flexibility, equity compensation, and generous paid time off. Key missions: Lead the planning, execution, and delivery of high-priority, cross-functional programs across GitLab's engineering organization.. Partner directly with Engineering Directors, Vice Presidents, Product leadership, and technical leaders to align on priorities, program goals, trade-offs, and execution plans.. Drive stakeholder coordination across organizational boundaries, including collaboration with teams such as Monetization, Fulfillment, Utilization, Legal, and senior individual contributors across engineering stages. Profile: - Strong technical fluency, with the ability to engage credibly with engineers and architects on topics such as continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD), cloud infrastructure, application programming interfaces (APIs), and distributed systems - Ability to read technical discussions, identify dependencies and risks, and turn complex inputs into practical plans, milestones, and decisions - Exceptional stakeholder management skills and strong written and verbal communication, especially when working with senior engineering and product leaders - Comfort using program and project management tools such as GitLab, Jira, or similar platforms to manage execution and visibility - Proven success leading large, complex, cross-functional programs in a fast-paced, distributed engineering environment - Demonstrated ability to take ownership of complex programs, ask thoughtful questions, make sound decisions, collaborate constructively across teams, and move work forward in ambiguous environments - Proven technical program management experience, including operating at the Staff or Senior Staff level - 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