Manager, Engineering, Nonlinear Productivity (Friction Elimination & Solutions)

Ability to use GitLab.

A track record of identifying and shipping technical fixes for developer productivity, continuous integration and continuous delivery, or platform friction, including problems you found before they were assigned.

Comfort operating with high ambiguity and no existing backlog, building the roadmap rather than executing one handed down.

People management experience, including in a small-team or working-manager capacity.

Technical depth to evaluate and prototype solutions directly, not only direct others toward them.

Product judgment to assess whether an internal tool could hold up for paying customers.

Familiarity with agentic or AI-assisted development tooling.

Experience moving an internal tool toward an external, customer-facing product is advantageous.

The Nonlinear Productivity team improves how GitLab engineers, and increasingly agents, build, review, and ship code. We test and scale durable technical fixes that improve our internal engineering output.

In this role, you can progress to Senior Manager, Nonlinear Productivity, with an expanded mandate across the full set of team metrics we use to track improvement.

Additional details about our process can be found on our hiring page.

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

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.

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