Principal Product Manager, Orbit

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GitLabSoftware development

Remote, Canada; Remote, United StatesFull-TimePrincipal

Salary203,200 - 345,600 USD per year

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Experience owning complex technical products or platforms at Staff, Principal, or equivalent scope.
Track record of defining vision and roadmaps across multiple teams.
Deep technical fluency in one or more relevant areas, such as developer tools, DevOps, software delivery, data platforms, distributed systems, knowledge graphs, search, APIs, AI infrastructure, or agentic systems.
Ability to work credibly with engineers on architecture, data models, APIs, scale, reliability, and security.
Business judgment and experience in market assessment, product strategy, pricing, packaging, business cases, or commercialization of technical products.
Experience taking a product, platform, or category from early concept through launch, customer adoption, and iteration.
Ability to build trusted relationships with technical practitioners, engineering leaders, architects, and executives.
Clear written and verbal communication, with experience explaining complex ideas and influencing across functions.
Practical experience using AI tools in product work, including exploring code and data, prototyping workflows, and creating or reviewing merge requests.

Define Orbit’s multi-year vision and roadmap across graph models, ingestion and indexing, query and retrieval, interfaces, governance, and enterprise readiness.
Shape how Orbit works across GitLab.com, Self-Managed, Dedicated, GitLab Duo Agent Platform, MCP-based external agents, APIs, and developer tooling.
Turn platform opportunities into customer problems, measurable outcomes, and investment decisions.
Partner with Engineering and Design on architecture and implementation tradeoffs across graph data models, indexing, query systems, APIs, MCP, authorization, and scale.
Lead customer discovery with developers, engineering leaders, platform and security teams, and technical executives.
Define target customers, priority use cases, differentiated value, and the path to product-market fit.
Partner across Product Marketing, Sales, Solutions Engineering, Customer Success, Pricing, and Finance on positioning, packaging, pricing, launch, adoption, and expansion.
Develop business cases and track adoption, retention, usage, customer value, and revenue outcomes.
Align teams and executive leaders around recommendations and tradeoffs, mentor product managers, and represent GitLab’s product vision.

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