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Salary: USD 115,200 - 194,400 / annual
GitLab is seeking a Senior People Business Partner for Engineering to serve as a strategic partner to senior Engineering leaders (VPs, Senior Directors) globally. You will help navigate organizational change, mature team structures, and build high-performance cultures within distributed Engineering teams.
Key responsibilities include:
- Partner with senior Engineering leaders to understand priorities and translate them into clear people and business strategies
- Drive job architecture changes and career path maturity across Engineering, including introducing new leveling frameworks
- Lead and facilitate key people processes such as calibrations and performance reviews in partnership with the broader People team
- Coach Engineering leaders on organization design, change management, and managing globally distributed teams with regional considerations (especially EMEA)
- Collaborate with other People Business Partners and Talent teams to ensure consistency and quality support
- Use data and qualitative insights to identify trends and recommend improvements to organizational effectiveness, engagement, and performance
- Support planning and execution of Engineering offsites and leadership forums
- Drive talent initiatives aligned with business outcomes
You will report to the PBP organization and work closely with peers across the People Business Partner team. The role requires significant overlap with US Central/East Coast time zones and quarterly travel for offsites and collaborative forums.
Requirements:
- Experience as a People Business Partner or similar role supporting Engineering or technical organizations in fast-paced tech environments of comparable scale and complexity
- Proven track record partnering with senior leaders (Senior Directors, VPs), building trusted relationships, influencing decisions, and providing data-informed guidance
- Experience supporting globally distributed teams across multiple regions and time zones, with familiarity navigating regional differences (particularly EMEA)
- Demonstrated ability to help organizations navigate change and transformation (job architecture updates, leadership transitions, team restructuring, culture shifts) while balancing strategic work with hands-on execution of core People processes
- Strong coaching, communication, and collaboration skills; ability to work asynchronously and cross-functionally with Talent Acquisition, Total Rewards, and other People teams
- Openness to learning GitLab's ways of working and applying transferable experience from related domains (Product, IT) while developing deeper Engineering expertise
- Strong business acumen
