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Tech Stack
Tools & technologiesCloud
About the role
Key responsibilities & impact- Lead the global Field CTO team by hiring, developing, and retaining senior technical leaders who engage with GitLab's most strategic customers and opportunities.
- Set the operating model for the team, including how engagements are scoped, how Field CTOs are matched to accounts and regions, and how insights are documented and shared.
- Coach a team of senior individual contributors through regular one-on-ones, peer review, and clear development plans focused on judgment, executive presence, and strategic impact.
- Personally engage as the senior technical voice on a portfolio of GitLab's most strategic accounts, supporting complex pre-sales motions and executive-level customer relationships.
- Deliver thought leadership on DevSecOps, AI for software development, security, compliance, and platform modernization through customer briefings, presentations, events, and written content.
- Partner with sales leadership, sales engineering, customer success, product, and marketing as a peer to align the Field CTO function with broader go-to-market priorities.
- Represent GitLab externally with analysts, media, and industry audiences, and internally in executive forums where field perspective should help shape company decisions.
- Curate feedback from the field and turn it into actionable input for product direction, marketing narratives, sales strategy, enablement materials, and reusable technical content.
Requirements
What you’ll need- Experience leading a senior, customer-facing technical team such as Field CTO, Principal Solutions Architect, Principal Sales Engineer, or Distinguished Engineer, with success developing senior individual contributors across regions and time zones.
- Strong people leadership skills, including hiring, coaching, performance management, and making thoughtful deployment decisions for a highly experienced, executive-facing team.
- Significant experience as a technology leader in DevSecOps, application security, information security, or related areas, ideally in roles such as Field CTO, CTO, VP of Engineering, or a comparable executive technical position.
- Demonstrated understanding of AI for software development, including how it connects to developer productivity, security, compliance, and enterprise platform strategy.
- Deep knowledge of software development practices, continuous integration and continuous deployment, cloud and platform architecture, and secure software delivery in enterprise environments.
- Executive communication skills with the ability to build credibility with senior technology and security leaders, create clear written and verbal points of view, and tailor technical strategy to different audiences.
- Experience representing a company externally through events, analyst conversations, media opportunities, and technical thought leadership content.
- Experience working autonomously in a fully remote, asynchronous environment, coordinating effectively across time zones, and partnering with stakeholders at the VP level and above.
Benefits
Comp & perks- 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
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Hard Skills & Tools
DevSecOpsapplication securityinformation securityAI for software developmentsoftware development practicescontinuous integrationcontinuous deploymentcloud architectureplatform architecturesecure software delivery
Soft Skills
people leadershiphiringcoachingperformance managementexecutive communicationcredibility buildingstrategic impactengagementcollaborationautonomy