Senior Product Manager, Secret Detection and Vulnerability Research

An overview of this role

As a Senior Product Manager, you will own GitLab's Secret Detection offering and the Vulnerability Research function that produces the detection content across security products. Secret Detection is one of the highest-signal, highest-volume security capabilities on the platform. Leaked credentials are the most common initial access vector in real breaches, and as AI agents write, commit, and configure more of the software, the surface area for exposed secrets grows faster than the number of humans watching it.

You will own the full loop: detect a secret with high precision, tell the customer whether it is still live, get it revoked, and prevent the next one from ever landing. In parallel, you will own vulnerability research as a product asset rather than a back-office function. The detection rules, advisory data, and malicious package and reference intelligence your team produces are what make GitLab's security scanners worth paying for, and they need to ship on a cadence with measurable quality.

This is an outcome-owning role - you will carry adoption, retention, and revenue targets for your area and be expected to explain how your roadmap moves them.

Some examples of our projects

• Push protection and pre-receive blocking that stops a credential before it reaches a repository, without wrecking developer flow
• Secret validity checking and automated revocation partnerships with major cloud and SaaS token issuers
• Detection content pipelines that turn threat research into shipped rules, with precision and recall tracked per rule
• Intelligence-driven detection of malicious packages, dependencies, and references entering the software supply chain

What you'll do

• Own the business outcomes for Secret Detection and Vulnerability Research, including adoption, expansion, competitive win rate, and revenue contribution. Bring a point of view on packaging and pricing, not just features.
• Set the strategy for the full secret lifecycle: prevention, detection, validation, revocation, and reporting across GitLab.com, Dedicated, and Self-Managed.
• Treat detection content as a product. Define how rules, advisories, and intelligence feeds are sourced, validated, versioned, and measured, and make quality visible to customers.
• Hold the line on detection quality. False positives are a product defect and