GitLab

Senior Director, Digital Marketing

GitLab

full-time

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Location Type: Remote

Location: United States

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Salary

💰 $184,800 - $314,000 per year

Job Level

Senior

About the role

  • Own and help elevate to the next stage the digital growth engine that delivers marketing-generated pipeline across ABM, integrated campaigns, and paid media, with clear accountability for pipeline quality, stage velocity, and expansion revenue, not just top-of-funnel volume.
  • Establish and optimize measurement frameworks that move beyond vanity metrics to business outcomes: pipeline by ICP segment, stage velocity improvements, CAC/LTV economics, attach rates for Duo and Ultimate, and incrementality of channel investments through lift tests and MMM.
  • Build deep, trusted partnerships with Sales leadership and field teams, establishing joint accountability for target account engagement, pipeline generation, and deal acceleration. This includes weekly pipeline reviews, shared success metrics (MQAs, stage conversion, win rates), and co-developed account strategies for top-tier opportunities.
  • Drive a culture of disciplined experimentation across all digital programs, treating tests as products with clear hypotheses, success criteria, and learning documentation. Establish experimentation governance, baseline models for incrementality measurement, and rapid iteration cycles to optimize channel mix and budget allocation.
  • Define, track, and optimize key performance indicators (KPIs) across digital channels, including account engagement, pipeline contribution, conversion rates, and return on ad spend, using data to guide investment decisions.
  • Oversee and mentor the ABM and campaign marketing teams, providing clear strategic direction while empowering team members to experiment, iterate, and deliver high-impact programs.
  • Own the digital campaign lifecycle, from strategy and planning through execution, optimization, and reporting, ensuring programs are scalable, measurable, and tied to clear business outcomes.
  • Drive the use of insights from market trends, customer behavior, and sales feedback to inform digital messaging, content strategy, and channel mix, ensuring campaigns resonate with key personas in the DevSecOps space.
  • Collaborate with the broader marketing organization to integrate digital tactics into global launches, field programs, and partner initiatives, ensuring consistent narratives and cohesive customer experiences across touchpoints.
  • Foster a culture of continuous improvement and innovation across all digital efforts, testing new platforms, formats, and approaches while standardizing best practices and documentation for long-term scalability.

Requirements

  • Deep experience building and scaling digital marketing strategies and programs in enterprise technology or SaaS, ideally in the DevSecOps space and across multiple markets.
  • Proven ability to manage significant paid media budgets (ideally $5M+) with a track record of optimizing CAC/LTV through incrementality testing, geo-holdouts, and channel reallocation based on performance data rather than intuition.
  • Ability to navigate and influence complex organizations, balancing the needs of sales, marketing, product, and executive stakeholders while adapting to a rapidly changing environment.
  • Deep understanding of jobs-to-be-done methodology and ability to organize programs around customer problems rather than product features, with experience translating technical buyer needs into compelling digital experiences and offers.
  • Experience marketing to technical audiences (developers, DevOps engineers, security practitioners, platform engineers) with an understanding of how technical buyers evaluate tools and the importance of third-party validation over vendor claims.
  • Proven leadership skills suitable for a senior director-level role, with experience managing, mentoring, and developing high-performing teams across account-based marketing, campaign marketing, and paid media.
  • Strong understanding of how integrated digital campaigns, account-based marketing motions, and paid programs influence the buyer journey, pipeline creation, acceleration, and revenue outcomes.
  • Effective communication and interpersonal skills to build trusted relationships with senior internal leaders and cross-functional partners, including comfort engaging at the executive level on strategy, performance, and tradeoffs.
  • Capacity to work autonomously and asynchronously in a fully remote environment while staying aligned to shared goals, processes, and priorities across the broader GitLab team.
  • Familiarity with measuring the commercial impact of digital marketing, including pipeline influence, opportunity progression, and other performance metrics tied to regional and global objectives.
Benefits
  • 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
  • Home office support
Applicant Tracking System Keywords

Tip: use these terms in your resume and cover letter to boost ATS matches.

Hard Skills & Tools
digital marketing strategiesaccount-based marketingpaid media managementCAC/LTV optimizationincrementality testinggeo-holdoutsperformance data analysisKPI trackingcampaign optimizationjobs-to-be-done methodology
Soft Skills
leadershipmentoringcommunicationinterpersonal skillscollaborationautonomyadaptabilitystrategic thinkingrelationship buildingcontinuous improvement