Engineering Manager, Plan: Product Planning

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An overview of this role

As an Engineering Manager in GitLab's Plan stage, you'll lead a team in an important and growing area of our business. In this role, you'll build and guide a high-performing team of engineers working on solutions that help organizations better plan and execute their work across the software development lifecycle. The ideal candidate brings proven experience delivering projects from ideation to production that have created measurable business impact. Deploying strong technical leadership skills you will resolve complex dependencies and balance technical debt paydown, architectural improvements, and feature delivery to gradually improve overall velocity. You will maintain an active interest in team-members' professional growth and take opportunities to recognize achievements, delegate challenging projects, and foster an environment of learning. With a passion for effective planning methodologies, you'll collaborate with product and engineering teams to improve GitLab's planning capabilities.

Some examples of our projects:

• Portfolio Management (Epics, Roadmaps, Boards)
• Design Management 
• Objectives and Key Results
• Quality and Requirements Management
• Find out more on the Portfolio Management page

What you’ll do  

• Design and execute comprehensive project plans by:
• Developing detailed roadmaps with clear milestones and dependencies
• Coordinating cross-functional resources to meet objectives
• Managing stakeholder expectations and communicating progress effectively
• Identifying and mitigating risks proactively
• Running agile project management processes

• Build and maintain a high performing team by:
• Helping your developers grow their skills and experience
• Attracting talent of the highest caliber from a globally distributed market
• Conducting interviews and ensuring a high standard of technical assessment is maintained
• Nurturing psychological safety on your team
• Holding regular 1:1s, delivering feedback and conducting meaningful technical discussions
• Improve product quality, security, and performance while maintaining high velocity
• Foster technical decision making on the team, but make final decisions when necessary
• Maintain a culture of continuous improvement and intense customer-focus

What you’ll bring 

• Strong prior managerial experience of more than 3 years, managing teams of 5-10 engineers.
• A track record of delivering value to customers through effective management of software projects.
• Strong technical expertise that is relevant to the team; such as Ruby, relational databases, or system design.
• Experience using Agile planning tools; such as GitLab, Confluence, Jira, Monday.com, Asana, or open source equivalents.
• Exquisite communication: Regularly achieve consensus amongst departments, with excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• You share our values, and work in accordance with those values.
• Experience in a peak performance organization.

How GitLab will support you

• Benefits to support your health, finances, and well-being
• All remote, asynchronous work environment
• Flexible Paid Time Off
• Team Member Resource Groups
• Equity Compensation & Employee Stock Purchase Plan
• Growth and development budget 
• 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.

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