VP of Product Security

An overview of this role

As Vice President of Product Security, you will define how security is built into GitLab's AI-powered DevSecOps platform and the products and services that support it. Reporting to the Chief Information Security Officer, you will lead GitLab's Product Security organization with end-to-end responsibility for product and service security, with a primary focus on secure product design and delivery and a secondary focus on the infrastructure and cloud systems behind it.

This is, first and foremost, a product engineering leadership role. We are looking for someone who has built and shipped product at a high-growth AI or SaaS company—someone who understands the speed at which product teams move, the tradeoffs inherent in shipping features at scale, and how to make security a native property of the product rather than a layer applied on top. The most successful candidates will have owned product architecture, developer experience, and security outcomes as a product engineering leader. Infrastructure and cloud security matter here, but they are in service of the product—not the other way around.

In this role, you help make security a native property of the product, partner closely with senior leaders across Engineering, Product, AI, and Security, and shape outcomes such as stronger security architecture, scalable security services, and predictable security processes that support fast product delivery.

Some examples of our projects:

• Building core security platform capabilities such as authentication and authorization services, secrets management, permission models, and audit instrumentation
• Defining security strategy for AI-powered features and agentic platform capabilities, including prompt injection defenses, model and data protections, and governance for AI features

What you’ll do

• Set the long-term strategy and operating model for Product Security across GitLab.com, GitLab Dedicated, and self-managed offerings
• Lead a global, multi-disciplinary organization spanning:
  • Application Security
  • Product Security Engineering / security tooling
  • Security Architecture and Platforms
  • Vulnerability Management
  • Product Security Incident Response (PSIRT)
  • Infrastructure, Cloud, and Data Security
• Partner with the Chief Technology Officer, Chief Product Officer, Chief Information Security Officer, Vice President of AI Engineering