Senior Product Manager, Global Search

We're looking for a Senior Product Manager to make finding anything in the one DevSecOps Platform easy and delightful in GitLab. Your goals are to improve the overall search experience within GitLab, including defining the future of code search within GitLab. You'll ensure the solution can scale from small self-managed instances to GitLab.com.
Check out our Global Search and Code Search Handbook pages to learn more. 
We also recommend looking at our company page and the product handbook to get started.
Individual Responsibilities
Senior Product Managers are leaders and are expected to be experts in their product domain and viewed as such by the community and internally at GitLab. They are expected to prioritize and manage their products with minimal guidance from leadership or other product team members. As a Senior Product Manager at GitLab, you are primarily responsible for:

 
Understanding and communicating the problem of our users and customers
 
Defining requirements for a solution that is loved by our users and customers
 
Ensuring our product is viable for GitLab
 
Driving the product in the right direction - consistently deliver outsized impact to their stage and category KPIs or other GitLab KPIs
 
Taking an active role in defining the future - mastering the competitive and market landscape of their product domain and understanding how this landscape impacts the product roadmap
 
Managing the product lifecycle end-to-end - document ROI or impact for a given action, feature, or prioritization decision
 
Engaging with stakeholders in two-way communication - representing GitLab as a product and domain expert in front of industry analysts, strategic customers, industry events/conferences, and other events
 
Leading by example - mentoring less experienced Product Managers to enable them to add more value sooner

Requirements

 
Experience in product management
 
Strong understanding of search engines, algorithms, and workflows
 
Excellent communication skills and the ability to translate complex requirements into actionable iterations
 
Familiarity with Search workflows, and helping users find what they are looking for
 
Trust and empower your development group to deliver great products
 
Have a passion for design and usability
 
Receptive to coaching and feedback 

Nice to haves

 
Experience with code search
 
Direct Elasticsearch experience
 
Experience with GitLab, Git, and the Git workflows
 
Experience building AI-based features and working with AI models

Hiring Process

 
Selected candidates will be invited to schedule a screening call with our Global Recruiters
 
Selected candidates will then be invited to schedule a Hiring Manager Interview with our Director of Product 
 
Candidates will then be invited to schedule an interview with a Peer Enablement Product Manager
 
Candidates will then be invited to schedule an interview with an Engineering Manager 
 
Candidates will then be invited to schedule a Deep Dive interview with a Product Manager
 
Selected candidates will then be invited to schedule a final interview with the VP of Product