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Manager, Engineering, Nonlinear Productivity (Friction Elimination & Solutions)
from GitLab · read the original and apply on their site
Remote, Bangalore
Our take: The real work here is finding recurring friction in GitLab's own engineering, prototyping durable fixes yourself, and driving the strongest ones toward becoming products, all with a small high-caliber team and no backlog to lean on.
This is for the engineer-manager who finds the friction before anyone assigns it, and who would rather build the roadmap than execute one handed down. You will hunt for where GitLab's own development slows down, prototype durable fixes with your own hands, and turn the best of them into products paying customers rely on. If you like small high-caliber teams, real ambiguity, and honest accounting of what worked and what did not, this will feel like home.
Needs
- data-backed analysis
- root cause hunting
- building prototypes
- reviewing architecture
- managing a small team
- cross-team partnering
Rewards
- ownership of outcomes
- remote autonomy
- high ambition
- honest candour
- whole-life balance
Demands
- comfort with ambiguity
- building from blank page
- hands-on prototyping
- proving impact in metrics
- winning teams over
Grows
- productizing internal tools
- strategic judgment
- spotting friction early
- learning ai tooling
- hiring sharp people
Values
- remote working
- talent density
- raising the ceiling
- saying what failed
- work-life balance
Drains
- documenting learnings
- metric reporting
- chasing internal adoption
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