Principal Product Manager, AI Custom Models

The role of Principal Product Manager at GitLab focuses on shaping AI product direction, especially around custom models and self-hosted AI experiences, to support customer infrastructure, security, and deployment needs. The position involves strategy, cross-team collaboration, and guiding product development during a growth phase.

Location: Remote-Global

Salary: $203,200—$345,600 USD

Responsibilities

• Lead product strategy and roadmap definition for custom models and self-hosted AI capabilities within GitLab.
• Drive discovery, prioritization, and delivery for features that support model flexibility, self-managed deployments, and AI agent orchestration use cases.
• Collaborate closely with engineering, design, and other product leaders to turn complex customer and technical needs into clear product direction.
• Define product requirements that account for infrastructure, configuration, deployment, and hardware considerations in self-hosted environments.
• Partner with internal stakeholders across GitLab AI initiatives to ensure this product area fits into the broader platform strategy.
• Guide tradeoff decisions with a strong focus on customer value, technical feasibility, and long-term platform quality.
• Support knowledge transfer and continuity as the team grows and evolves, helping new work move forward with context and clarity.
• Communicate plans, decisions, and priorities in a transparent way that helps distributed teams execute asynchronously.

Requirements

• Experience owning product strategy for technical platform, infrastructure, or AI-driven products.
• Knowledge of AI model ecosystems, including custom model options, open models, or open weight models, and the product decisions involved in supporting them.
• Familiarity with self-hosted or self-managed software and the operational needs of customers running software in their own environments.
• Ability to work effectively with engineers on topics such as configuration, infrastructure, deployment patterns, and hardware-related constraints.
• Experience leading complex product work with multiple stakeholders and making clear decisions in areas with technical ambiguity.
• Skill in written and verbal communication, with the ability to explain product direction clearly in a distributed, asynchronous environment.
• Judgment to operate at principal scope, with ownership across strategy, execution, and cross-functional alignment.
• Openness to bringing transferable experience from adjacent areas such as DevSecOps, developer platforms, infrastructure software, or applied AI products.

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

Additional Information

• This role is remote-Global.
• The salary range is for residents of the United States only, with a range of $203,200—$345,600 USD.
• GitLab hires in countries around the world, with some location-based eligibility requirements.
• All roles are remote, and the company emphasizes diversity and inclusion policies.