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An overview of this role
As the Senior People Business Partner (PBP), Product & Marketing, you'll be a strategic business partner to several senior level leaders on the Product and Marketing leadership team, helping them build, develop, and lead high-performing teams. In a fast-moving, innovation-driven environment, senior leaders need a partner who can be trusted with ambiguity. You'll bring that — along with deep experience across talent management, performance, and organizational effectiveness.
What You'll Do
- Partner directly with senior leaders to understand business priorities and translate them into actionable people strategies.
- Serve as a trusted advisor on organizational design, workforce planning, and leadership development.
- Lead full-cycle talent review processes — including succession planning, calibration, promotion cycles, and compensation reviews — ensuring the organization has the leadership depth and critical skills needed to execute its long-term roadmap.
- Partner with Talent Acquisition, Total Rewards, Talent Management & Development and other functions to deliver a seamless, consistent employee experience.
- Bring people analytics to leadership, providing clear visibility into organizational health, including capability gaps, leadership effectiveness, and critical talent retention, while also translating those insights into strategic recommendations that drive performance and decision-making.
What You'll Bring
- Proven track record as a People Business Partner to senior leaders up to the VP level in fast-paced tech environments of comparable size and complexity, with the EQ, judgment, and confidence to build trusted, credible relationships with VP-level stakeholders from day one and influence decision-making with clear, data-informed guidance.
- Solid grounding across core HR domains — performance and talent management, employee relations, organizational effectiveness, and compensation — with the ability to apply them in a Product and Marketing setting.
- Demonstrated ability to execute People programs end to end (e.g. talent assessments, calibrations, compensation reviews), with strong attention to detail and a comfort using people data to surface trends and shape recommendations.
- Experience supporting globally distributed teams across multiple regions and time zones, with familiarity navigating regional processes such as those in EMEA.
- Comfort operating through change and ambiguity, moving fluidly between strategic input and hands-on execution, with strong communication skills for collaborating asynchronously and cross-functionally with Talent Acquisition, Total Rewards, and other People teams.
About the team
The People Team at GitLab is dedicated to building and scaling the talent, culture, and organizational capabilities that power our global, all-remote workforce. This team partners closely with leaders across the business to design people strategies, shape organizational effectiveness, and create people programs that support growth, performance, and engagement. They focus on delivering data-driven talent insights, fostering open communication with executive stakeholders, and evolving people practices to meet the needs of a rapidly growing, high-performance company.
GitLab operates as an all remote company, so the ability to work asynchronously and communicate clearly across time zones is essential. You can expect some travel Leadership and People Group offsites and key team forums.
How GitLab will support you
- 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. 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.
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$115,000—$194,000 USDHow 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
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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