Staff Product Manager, Agentic Planning

An overview of this role

What does software planning look like when people and artificial intelligence agents work together? As a Staff Product Manager for Planning at GitLab, you'll help answer that question and lead the team toward a clear product direction. This isn't just about improving traditional agile planning. You'll rethink how intent becomes actionable work, how that work moves through software development, and where human involvement is needed.

You'll develop a point of view on planning's future and turn it into product decisions with engineering, design, and product leadership. That includes exploring how planning could connect work to business priorities and budgets, rather than assuming the answer is already decided. Alongside that strategic work, you'll share ownership of existing planning capabilities with another product manager.

We're opening this role at Staff level, with flexibility to consider Principal level based on your experience and scope of impact.

What you'll do

• Define a clear direction for planning as software development shifts toward collaboration between people and artificial intelligence agents, and help the team move from open questions to concrete priorities.
• Shape how users capture intent, break it into actionable work, and determine which work can proceed autonomously and which needs human involvement.
• Evaluate whether and how planning should connect software delivery to company priorities, business objectives, and budgets.
• Share ownership of planning capabilities, including work items, boards, specifications, and portfolio planning, with a fellow product manager. Help define how that scope is divided.
• Work with engineering and design to translate product direction into a roadmap and improvements to planning workflows across GitLab.
• Communicate your recommendations clearly to senior leaders, challenge assumptions constructively, and lead the team through changes in direction.

What you'll bring

• Experience leading product strategy and execution for software development, developer tools, or planning products, with the depth to make decisions in a specialized product area.
• A strong understanding of software development and development and operations (DevOps) workflows, including how planning decisions affect downstream delivery.
• The ability to form and defend a product point of view in an uncertain, changing market, while staying open to different ideas.
• Clear communication with technical teams and senior executives, including experience challenging leadership decisions constructively and building support for a direction.
• The ability to connect a forward-looking strategy to practical product decisions and work collaboratively across product, engineering, and design.

How GitLab Supports Full-Time Employees

• Benefits to support your health, finances, and well-being
• Flexible Paid Time Off
• Team Member Resource Groups
• Equity Compensation & Employee Stock Purchase Plan
• Growth and Development Fund
• Parental Leave

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.

Country Hiring Guidelines: GitLab hires new team members in countries around the world. All of our roles are remote, however some roles may carry specific location-based eligibility requirements. Our Talent Acquisition team can help answer any questions about location after starting the recruiting process.