Engineering Manager, Growth
About the role
An overview of this role
As Engineering Manager, Growth at GitLab, you’ll focus on building and enabling a high-performing team that helps users discover, activate, and expand value in GitLab. Growth’s mission is full-funnel: linking acquisition, activation, engagement, retention, and monetization into measurable self-serve loops, while using experimentation to improve how users experience the product.
Your primary focus will be to hire, coach, and develop team members, and to create an environment where they can do their best work while delivering strong results. You’ll partner closely with Product, Design, Data, and Engineering stakeholders to translate business goals, user journey insights, and experiment learnings into product improvements that help users realize value faster.
You will foster a culture that challenges the status quo and leverages AI-native experimentation to find innovative solutions for our users.
You and your globally distributed team will work in an agile and asynchronous way, working across GitLab to run experiments on GitLab.com, improve onboarding and discoverability, and streamline the paths that connect users to existing product value. Growth teams work iteratively, operate across product areas, and use experimentation to make data-informed product choices.
In this role, you’ll balance technical guidance with people management. You’ll guide architecture and implementation discussions, help the team navigate tradeoffs, and ensure experiments and product changes are built carefully, measured well, and aligned with long-term product ownership. Because Growth often works across product boundaries, you’ll also help your team work effectively with counterpart groups and smoothly hand off or scale successful work where ongoing ownership belongs elsewhere.
Some examples of our projects:
- Improving signup, onboarding, and activation experiences to help new users get to value faster
- Running experiments and A/B tests on GitLab.com to improve discoverability, conversion, engagement, and upgrade flows
What you’ll do
- Hire, guide, and enable a high-performing Growth engineering team, creating an environment where GitLab team members can do their best work and deliver strong results.
- Partner closely with Product Managers, Product Designers, Data counterparts, and other Engineering Managers to define and deliver improvements that increase user dis