Overview

The Intern Accountant position will be part of the GL Accounting team which belongs to the Accounting family within the Finance department. The general ledger team within GitLab is responsible for managing and maintaining the company's financial records and accounts that are GAAP compliant. Here are some key aspects of the general ledger team:

1. Recording Transactions: The team is responsible for recording all financial transactions, including sales, purchases, expenses, and revenues, in the general ledger accounts.
2. Maintaining Accuracy: They ensure the accuracy and completeness of financial data by reconciling accounts, verifying entries, and correcting any discrepancies.
3. Preparing Financial Statements: The team prepares financial statements such as the balance sheet, income statement, and cash flow statement based on the data in the general ledger.
4. Compliance: They ensure compliance with accounting standards, regulations, and company policies in recording and reporting financial information.
5. Month-end and Year-end Closing: The team performs month-end and year-end closing procedures, including adjusting entries, accruals, and closing temporary accounts to the retained earnings account.
6. Internal Controls: They establish and maintain internal controls to safeguard assets, prevent fraud, and ensure the integrity of financial reporting.
7. Supporting Audits: The general ledger team provides support during internal and external audits by providing documentation, explanations, and reconciliations of accounts.
8. Analysis and Reporting: They may also be involved in financial analysis, variance analysis, and providing insights into financial performance to support decision-making by management.

In essence, the general ledger team plays a crucial role in maintaining accurate financial records, ensuring compliance, and providing financial information for management decision-making and external reporting purposes. We are looking for candidates available to start June 10, 2024, and offboard August 30, 2024.

This application will close at 5:00 m PT on Thursday, April 25th, 2024.

About The Team

The GL Accountant team is made up of several team members, it is the team that has grown based on the needs of the Company that operates in a hyper growth environment. Our team constantly interacts with other internal and external teams to obtain the necessary support and details for the correct accounting. The team needs to be involved in different areas to be aware of the changes in the company and its correct accounting record, it is the team designed to work in various systems as required, with good communication. Our current challenge is a lack of automation of the processes we perform daily. We constantly strive to automate manual processes, while also iterating our documentation of policies, desktop procedures, etc. 

What You’ll Do

1. With appropriate guidance, prepare financial statement account reconciliations with clear explanations of procedures and results
2. Shadow team members of the Accounting as they perform their daily duties
3. Assist with research, tie-out, data entry, and recording and maintaining accurate and complete financial records
4. Learn how to work as part of the Accounting team to analyze data, support the accuracy and completeness of financial records

What You’ll Bring 

1. Data Entry and Record Keeping:  Assist in entering financial data into accounting systems, maintaining accurate records of transactions, and organizing financial documents.
2. Financial Analysis: Under supervision, interns can conduct basic financial analysis such as calculating ratios, preparing simple financial statements, and assisting with budgeting processes.
3. Research Support:  help in researching accounting standards, regulations, and industry best practices, providing valuable insights to the team.
4. Assistance with Audits: During audit preparations, interns can help gather necessary documents, reconcile accounts, and assist auditors in their tasks.
5. Software Proficiency: If trained on accounting software, interns can help the team navigate and utilize these tools effectively, improving efficiency in financial operations.
6. Documentation and Reporting: Interns can support in preparing financial reports, drafting memos, and documenting accounting procedures and policies.

Overview

The internship aims not only to provide practical experience in billing and accounts receivable operations but also to equip the intern with the knowledge and skills necessary for a successful career in finance and operations within the SaaS industry. By achieving these objectives and goals, the intern will contribute significantly to the efficiency and effectiveness of the company's financial operations, while also laying a solid foundation for their professional growth. We are looking for candidates available to start June 10, 2024, and offboard August 30, 2024.

This application will close at 5:00 m PT on Thursday, April 25th, 2024.

What You’ll Do  

As part of our dynamic Billing Operations and Accounts Receivable team, you will play a crucial role in enhancing the efficiency and effectiveness of our customer cash and billing processes. Your contributions will directly impact our financial reporting, customer satisfaction, and overall operational excellence. Here's what you'll be focusing on:

• Collaborate with the Accounts Receivable (AR) and Billing Operations team to review and code cash on account
• Update customer notes and records within our billing system, enhancing our communication and the precision of our record-keeping.
• Work closely with account owners to resolve any discrepancies or issues related to customer accounts, thereby boosting customer satisfaction and financial accuracy.
• Regularly contribute to updating our customer billing portals, ensuring that invoices are processed accurately and reflected promptly.
• Verify and update the status of invoices submitted the previous week, keeping all billing activities current in Tesorio.

In this role, you will have the opportunity to contribute to key areas of our financial operations, gaining hands-on experience and developing expertise that will be invaluable to your professional growth. You'll work closely with experienced team members and have the chance to make a meaningful impact on our operational efficiency and customer satisfaction.

What You’ll Bring 

• A foundational understanding of financial principles and terms, with an eagerness to apply this knowledge in a practical setting.
• Experience with or a strong willingness to learn financial management software such as Salesforce, Tesorio, or similar platforms.
• Excellent analytical skills, with the ability to review financial data, identify discrepancies, and suggest improvements.
• Adaptability and flexibility to work in a fast-paced, remote work environment, quickly adjusting to new tools and processes.
• A collaborative spirit, ready to work as part of a team and positively contribute to team dynamics and culture.
• Proactive in taking initiative, learning new skills, and tackling challenges to support team and organizational objectives.

About the team

Our Billing Operations Team is a global network of professionals based across America, South Africa, Ireland, the United Kingdom, and Spain. This diversity enriches our team with a wide range of perspectives and expertise, fostering a culture of high performance and dedication to excellence.

Challenges are opportunities for growth and improvement in our view. We are a team that embraces complexity and turns it into opportunity, ensuring each task, no matter how small, is handled with precision and care.

Joining our team means becoming part of a supportive, high-achieving environment. We value individuals who bring a keen eye for detail, a commitment to excellence, and a desire to contribute to a team that balances professionalism with a positive, engaging work culture. If you're looking to apply your financial skills, make a meaningful impact, and grow with a team that values both results and relationships, we welcome you.

How GitLab will support you

• All remote, asynchronous work environment
• Team Member Resource Groups
• 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.

Site Reliability Engineers (SREs) are responsible for keeping all user-facing services and other GitLab production systems running smoothly. SREs are a blend of pragmatic operators and software craftspeople that apply sound engineering principles, operational discipline, and mature automation to our environments and the GitLab codebase. We specialize in systems, whether it be networking, the Linux kernel, or some more specific interest in scaling, algorithms, or distributed systems.

The Observability Team's mission is to Build, Run and Own the entire lifecycle of the suite of services that enable observability of the GitLab SaaS environments. These services allow Infrastructure, Development and Product teams to observe how their code runs on GitLab’s SaaS Platforms and contribute to our overall reliability and scalability goals. This also extends from metrics gathering and telemetry to how that information is used by the Infrastructure and Development teams. 

As an SRE you will:

• Build: Automating as much as possible. Tasks should not be manual. Our Observability stack needs to be extended to support our growth and we need engineers to focus on how to build sustainably. 
• Maintain: Our metrics environment as well as the tools and processes we have developed to provide this information throughout the company.  
• Plan: Develop monitoring and alerting systems that predict capacity needs based on the customer usage patterns. Plan for new service rollouts, expansion of existing services and preparing advice for customers to optimize their resource consumption.  
• Respond: There is a requirement to be part of an on-call rota in this role.
• Partner: Act as Subject Matter Experts for metrics gathering, observability guidelines, and capacity planning. 
• Collaborate: Work with other engineering stakeholders on resolving larger architectural bottlenecks and participate by offering a large scale operational point of view. Work in close collaboration with software development teams.

You may be a fit to this role if you:

• Have experience with Infrastructure as a Code technologies, and libraries powering GitLab.
• Have experience with Grafana’s LGTM stack, or Elastic’s stack (ELK)
• Are able to reason about large systems - how they work and can be operated on a large scale, edge cases, failure modes, behaviors.
• Enjoy working with peers and collaborating across teams to deliver unique solutions to various technical challenges. 
• Are able to leverage GitLab as your day-to-day go-to tool.

 You share our values, and work in accordance with those values.

Projects you could work on:

• Work on the GitLab core projects such as, GitLab Rails, GitLab Workhorse, Gitaly, etc.
• Coding infrastructure automation with Ansible and Terraform, and comfortable with managed Kubernetes platforms.
• Work on the GitLab observability stack (e.g. ELK, Prometheus, Grafana).
• Interact with various cloud provider systems (e.g. GCP, AWS).
• Error Budgets for Engineering at GitLab.
• Capacity Planning with Tamland.

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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An overview of this role

At GitLab, we seek to enable a high performance culture while keeping team members’ experience at the forefront of everything we do. The Total Rewards team plays a critical role in achieving this by aligning our compensation and benefits strategy with GitLab’s overall strategy, values, and culture. As a Senior Total Rewards Analyst, you’ll be instrumental in driving this mission forward by providing hands-on support across all aspects of our compensation and benefits programs.

What you’ll do  

• Contribute to the development and execution of the total rewards strategy through data-driven analysis, program design, and implementation.
• Own all aspects of job family creation and maintenance, partnering with the business to ensure alignment with the job architecture, conducting market benchmarking, reviewing FLSA classification, and updating related systems and tools. 
• Participate in external compensation and benefits surveys
• Maintain accuracy and integrity of Total Rewards related data in Workday through regular audits and data coordination. 
• Oversee benefits enrollments and changes, ensuring updates are shared with the relevant internal team or external partner, and also managing the processing of benefits-related severances. 
• Support the full lifecycle of all Total Rewards programs, including global benefits renewals, US benefits open enrollment, Annual Compensation Review, promotion cycles, quarterly RSU grant approvals, and bonus programs
• Act as the primary point of contact for Total Rewards related team member inquiries in collaboration with the People Connect team including creating documentation to support major program and policy implementations.
• Participate in the development of communications and education including collaborating with the broader team on refreshing the handbook to ensure our pages are user-friendly, concise, and informative.
• Partner with Talent Acquisition to review offers in Greenhouse and respond to inquiries. 
• Provide administrative support including facilitating benefits renewals, managing vendor procurement, and reviewing benefits invoices for accuracy.
• Coordinate the collection and submission of materials required for audit controls. 
• Assist with ad hoc data requests and special projects.
• Ensure compliance with all global rules and regulations (we operate in 60+ countries)

What you’ll bring 

• Global People or Human Resources experience with a demonstrated focus in Compensation and Benefits.
• The ability to work in a fast-paced environment, meeting deadlines consistently with strong attention to detail and accuracy among competing priorities.
• Strong analytical skills with proficiency in Google Sheets, Excel, and Tableau
• Experience with Workday or similar HRIS.
• Experience working with external survey data sources such as Radford or Comptryx.
• Proven experience quickly learning new concepts and tools.
• Ability to effectively collaborate with cross-functional teams and external partners.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• A shared interest in our values, and working in accordance with those values.
• Ability to use GitLab.

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.

An overview of this role

You will engineer security improvements to the GitLab product, build and maintain the tools we use to detect and respond to emerging threats in efficient and scalable ways, respond to security incidents and drive them to resolution, and develop and deploy preventative security measures for the GitLab organization and GitLab.com. Successful Security Engineers thrive in high-pressure environments, remain calm, follow prepared runbooks and think critically. Intermediate Security Engineers will learn how to think like an attacker and defender, and will learn proactive and preventative security measures to keep GitLab and its user’s data safe in an ever-changing threat landscape.

Find out more about the Security Operations team and responsibilities here:

• Incident Response
• Trust and Safety
• SIEM Operations
• Red Team

What you’ll do  

• Participate in the Security Operations on-call rotation
• Contribute security improvements by submitting Ruby code to the GitLab product 
• Detect and respond to GitLab-related security incidents
• Respond to and mitigate trust and safety matters such as platform abuse, cryptomining, platform spam and abuse of terms of service
• Create high-value, efficient detection and response capabilities, and fine-tune existing alerts
• Resolve automation gaps and create efficient, automated processes
• Create simple documentation such as runbooks and procedures
• Perform root cause analysis (RCA), lessons-learned and incident reviews

What you’ll bring 

• Proof of U.S. citizenship and residency
• Ruby development skills with a passion for security, with some experience in Python
• A strong interest in incident response processes, and aptitude for learning how to lead incidents independently
• A passion for technical documentation
• Proficiency with Google Cloud Platform (GCP) and/or AWS
• Interest in handling trust and safety incidents (platform abuse, cryptomining, platform spam)
• Interest in proactive hunting based and threat intelligence
• Interest in conducting forensic analysis of infected hosts (with a focus on cloud forensics)
• Interest in SIEM/security logging tools, such as Splunk or Devo

About the team

Security Operations is a globally distributed team of engineers split across 3 core regions; AMER, APAC and EMEA, and is at the forefront of security events that impact both GitLab.com and GitLab. We are both reactive and proactive, leading security investigations, incident response support and response resolution, through to cyber threat analysis and detection and response engineering. Even though we’re a global team, we work together in a cross-regional manner and have automation and processes to facilitate collaboration when resolving incidents, handovers, and general collaboration for project work as well.

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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An overview of this role

As a US Payroll Analyst at GitLab, you will work closely with other members of the Payroll team in handling our US payroll. You will report to the Payroll Manager and work fully remote within the Americas region. If you have 3+ years of public company payroll experience and proven to be self-motivated, tech-savvy, and able to deliver results in a fast-paced environment, this position may be the right fit for you. 

What you’ll do

• Process full-cycle US payroll on a semi-monthly cadence for 1,100+ (and growing) team members across 49 states in addition to off-cycle payroll runs (as needed).
• Assist new hires with payroll onboarding requirements. 
• Process final payments for terminated team members while complying with state laws.
• Responsible for ensuring data integrity across multiple disparate systems (e.g. Workday HCM, ADP Workforce Now, Fidelity).
• Process benefit deduction changes and ensuring 401(k) changes are updated accordingly.
• Apply funding for 401(k) contributions and perform reconciliations.
• Partner with various departments such as Stock Admin, People Operations, Benefits, Accounting, and Internal Audit to achieve cross-functional objectives.
• Assist the Accounting team with month-end and year-end matters.
• Assist with compliance related matters such as but not limited to multi-jurisdiction tax withholdings, garnishments, reconciling payroll data, reviewing timesheets for non-exempt team members, etc. 
• Register for new state and/or local tax jurisdictions.
• Research and resolve tax notices from government agencies.
• Responsible for Washington and Ohio worker compensation insurance on an annual and quarterly basis.
• Analyze and detect opportunities for improvement and suggest scalable processes and/or best practices.
• Create and/or maintain documentation as it relates to payroll processing, operational procedures, compliance, and other payroll-related matters.
• Provide exemplary support to our US team members by responding to inquiries on an almost daily basis.
• Assist with year-end payroll activities such as but not limited to payroll reconciliations, W-2 review, outstanding tax related matters, etc.

What you’ll bring 

• Bachelor’s degree in Business, Finance, and/or Accounting.
• Minimum of 3+ years of relevant and progressive payroll experience in a public tech company.
• ADP Workforce Now experience required; Workday HCM experience is a plus.
• Basic understanding of accounting, taxation, and finance concepts as it relates to payroll.
• Knowledge in California payroll laws and regulations required.
• Proficiency in utilizing Google Suite and Microsoft Excel.
• Exceptional organizational and communication skills.
• Ability to think critically and outside the box. 
• Ability to work independently with a team first mentality.

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.

An overview of this role

On the Project Management team at GitLab, we empower millions of industry users—from engineers and product managers to designers—to achieve their project goals through our innovative and collaborative project management tools. As a Backend Engineer specializing in Ruby on Rails, you will play a crucial role in both executing and enhancing our platform to ensure it remains robust and scalable, meeting the diverse needs of our expansive customer base.

Join us in building our new work items platform while enhancing our legacy issues framework. Collaborate with a globally distributed team, spanning from Asia to North America, in an environment that values your input and fosters growth.

Discover more about the exciting features we work on here!

What You’ll Do  

• Develop and Enhance Project Management Tools: Take ownership of specific projects related to our project management suite, crafted in Rails, to meet the evolving needs of users across various roles.
• Automate and Optimize Workflows: Enhance project management workflows through automation, improving efficiency and effectiveness for teams worldwide.
• Collaborate Across Teams: Engage with development, operations, and various other departments to promote a culture of innovation and continuous improvement.
• Enhance System Security and Stability: Fortify our platform by developing and integrating tools that safeguard against security threats, ensuring system integrity and reliability.
• Documentation and Analysis: Keep detailed documentation and conduct analyses of existing tools to identify and act on areas for improvement, enhancing user satisfaction and usability.
• Support and Troubleshoot: Engage in Tier 2 or Tier 3 support during weekday, weekend, and occasionally night on-call rotations to address product operations, security issues, and urgent engineering needs.

What You’ll Bring 

• Robust Ruby on Rails Expertise: Demonstrated experience in building, deploying, and maintaining Ruby on Rails applications, with a deep understanding of the Rails ecosystem.
• Collaborative Skills: A proven track record of effective teamwork, capable of collaborating with diverse teams to achieve project goals.
• Advanced Problem-Solving: A knack for tackling complex challenges with innovative solutions that enhance the functionality and efficiency of our project management tools.
• Security Minded: A strong background in developing secure applications and a keen understanding of how to protect them against modern security threats.
• SQL and Database Proficiency: Proficiency in writing efficient SQL queries, preferably with PostgreSQL, to manage and manipulate data effectively.
• Agile Practices Knowledge: Experience with Agile methodologies, particularly with an interest in tooling that supports agile project management.
• Asynchronous Work Competence: Exceptional self-management and organizational skills, thriving in a remote working environment.
• API Design Acumen: Skilled in designing RESTful and GraphQL APIs using industry best practices.

About the team

You will join a balanced team of 4 backend engineers and 4 frontend engineers located worldwide, working on one of the most impactful products at GitLab. You'll gain expertise in Rails and the GitLab platform while following our Product Development Flow. Our team operates asynchronously, providing strong mutual support and a commitment to collective success.

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.

Senior Account Director (Strategic Account Leader) is a grade 8.

This role is 100% remote and candidates must be based in Japan.

• Responsibilities

  • Supports GitLab’s strategic large prospects, Telco and or Digital Native customers.
  • Provide account leadership and direction in the pre- and post-sales process
  • Conduct sales activities including prospecting and developing opportunities in large/strategic accounts
  • Ensure the successful rollout and adoption of GitLab products through strong account management activities and coordination with pre-and-post sales and support resources
  • Be the voice of the customer by contributing product ideas to our public issue tracker
  • Generate qualified leads and develop new customers in conjunction with our strategic channel partners .
  • Expand knowledge of industry as well as the competitive posture of the company
  • Prepare activity and forecast reports
  • Contribute to root cause analysis on wins/losses.
  • Communicate lessons learned to the team, including account managers, the marketing team, and the technical team
  • Assist sales management in conveying customer needs to product managers, and technical support staff
  • Utilize a consultative approach, discuss business issues with prospect and develop a formal quote, a written sales proposal or a formal sales presentation addressing their business needs.
  • Develop an account plan to sell to customers based on their business needs.
  • Collaborate with Marketing on marketing strategies.

  Requirements

  • A true desire to see customers benefit from the investment they make with you
  • Able to provide high degree of account management and control
  • Work under minimal supervision on complex projects
  • Experience selling into large organizations
  • Ability to leverage established relationships and proven sales techniques for success
  • Excellent negotiation, presentation and closing skills
  • Preferred experience with Git, Software Development Tools, Application Lifecycle Management
  • You share our values, and work in accordance with those values.
  • Ability to use GitLab
  • Ability to travel if needed and comply with the company’s travel policy

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The confidence gap exists. The above list is intended to show the kinds of experience and qualities we're looking for. If you're reading this, do not match all of the requirements, and are hesitant to apply, we encourage you to make an application despite your hesitations.

About the role

A truly exciting role - we are looking for a Senior Product Designer to work on our AI products across GitLab! You will be working with all product stages with AI capabilities, or those looking to add AI. This role will require close collaboration with Product Managers, Engineering Managers, Technical Writers, UX Researchers and other Product Designers. It goes without saying there is huge room for impact as building AI into our product is a key focus. 

We are specifically looking for an experienced Designer with previous AI experience who knows the DevOps space. There is still a lot of ambiguity while we continue to define ideal user experiences and use cases, and the team is moving fast. We're looking for a designer who is comfortable with rapid change and can incorporate scrappy research into rapid design iteration. This role offers opportunities to join other designers as they create and refine the design principles and patterns that will be used across our product by many different user types.

Here are some links with extra information:

• AI Powered group page
• Product Design team page
• Pajamas design system

What will you be working on?

• AI Framework: Building common tools to support GitLab teams integration AI/ML technologies.
• AI Model Validation: Research and evaluate AI/ML models for use to enrich the GitLab product with Gen AI.
• Duo Chat: GitLab's AI-powered DevSecOps assistant.

What you'll bring:

• Demonstrated experience working on AI products, for example working with natural language models, recommendation systems, chatbots, conversation design.
• Demonstrated experience with DevOps, either as a user or designing for a product.
• Strong experience working in highly technical, complex environments.
• Leadership skills - ability to define and drive a UX vision in cross-functional teams. Driving change across other teams, not just your own.
• Experience conducting your own research with a variety of methods, and strong decision making skills for when to do research.
• Experience working in both startups and enterprise is highly beneficial.

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.

An overview of this role

The Senior Director of Public Policy will report to the GitLab Chief Legal Officer and help establish and direct policies, corporate strategies and objectives involving local, state, and federal/national government affairs. As part of this role, the Senior Director of Public Policy will lead in the analysis of proposed legislation and treaty’s globally, as well as determine potential impact(s) on GitLab and develop strategy and appropriate responses accordingly.

The Senior Director of Public Policy is a grade 11.

What you’ll do

• Develop GitLab’s public policy program and approach to engagement with US and European lawmakers, regulatory authorities, governments, councils and commissions. Monitor and report on key developments in tech regulation and policy across all jurisdictions, including the United States and EU.
• Advise senior leaders of the implications of emerging technology policy and regulatory proposals. Partner with leadership and other stakeholders across GitLab to address policy-related matters, including the implications of emerging technology trends, proposed legislation and regulatory proposals.
• Collaborate with teams across GitLab to educate and influence emerging regulatory and policy proposals on topics such as: artificial intelligence, open source software, sustainability, privacy and security.
• Lead the analysis of proposed legislative actions and the development of responses on behalf of GitLab, including responses to inquiries or calls for submissions from legislative bodies or government regulators.

What you’ll bring

• Minimum 12+ years of public policy and/or government affairs experience, in-house experience preferred.
• Proven experience with direct lobbying and ability to conceive and execute policy campaigns, both in the United States and other jurisdictions including the European Union.
• Strong familiarity with emerging technology public policy trends in the areas of cybersecurity, privacy, antitrust/competition and law enforcement access.
• The ability to articulate complex regulatory and policy matters into easily understood language.
• Adept ability to work with other industry representatives to build coalitions and form strategic relationships.
• A keen understanding of policy and legislative processes and dynamics within the U.S. Government and Congress; and the operation of the European Union (Parliament, Council and Commission).
• An ownership mindset of the relevant area(s) of subject matter expertise.
• Capable of building strong relationships cross functionally at all levels across GitLab.