- Company Name
- GitLab
- Job Title
- Principal Product Manager, AI Control Plane and Guardrails
- Job Description
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**Job Title:**
Principal Product Manager, AI Control Plane and Guardrails
**Role Summary:**
Lead the end‑to‑end product strategy and roadmap for GitLab’s AI Control Plane, focusing on governance, policy management, access controls, subscription and entitlement management, usage analytics, audit, and compliance. Drive enterprise‑scale adoption of AI tools by building transparent, configurable, and auditable controls that align with customer security and operational requirements.
**Expectations:**
- Deliver a clear product strategy for AI Governance and Guardrails within the first 12 months, translating customer demand into a prioritized roadmap.
- Ship foundational capabilities that enable secure, compliant, and scalable AI usage across large organizations.
- Establish and monitor success metrics (adoption, activation, policy coverage, compliance posture) and iterate based on data‑driven insights.
- Mentor junior product managers and represent governance perspective in cross‑functional AI product decisions.
**Key Responsibilities:**
- Own the product strategy and end‑to‑end roadmap for AI Governance, controlling features such as hierarchical policy controls, role‑based access, feature toggles, data‑handling settings, and model‑selection preferences.
- Define and enforce governance models across the product, ensuring granularity for enterprise users.
- Collaborate closely with Engineering, Design, Security, Data, Legal, AI Platform, Identity, and Fulfillment teams to align requirements, dependencies, and delivery timelines.
- Translate customer and field feedback into clear problem statements and prioritized outcomes, driving iterative releases that improve usability, manageability, and trust.
- Set and manage success metrics; use analytics to guide prioritization, measure impact, and refine the product roadmap.
- Operate with high autonomy, bring clarity to ambiguous problem spaces, and influence broader AI and platform product decisions.
**Required Skills:**
- Extensive end‑to‑end product management experience in complex B2B SaaS environments.
- Proven track record building governance, admin, or control‑plane products for AI, data, or platform services (policy management, access controls, multi‑tenant administration).
- Deep understanding of AI product lifecycle and enterprise adoption patterns, including pilot, scale, and governance requirements.
- Strong analytical and data‑driven decision‑making skills.
- Excellent stakeholder communication, cross‑functional collaboration, and strategic thinking.
- Ability to mentor and lead within a distributed product organization.
**Required Education & Certifications:**
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Business Administration, or related field (Master’s preferred).
- Professional Product Management certification (e.g., PMI‑Pg, AIPMM, Scrum Product Owner) highly regarded.
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