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Senior Engineering Manager, Non-Linear Productivity
from GitLab · read the original and apply on their site
Remote, Canada; Remote, United Kingdom; Remote, US
Our take: The real work here is building a tiny hand-picked squad, diagnosing the deepest friction in GitLab's own software pipeline, and fixing it at the root while reporting honest, measurable results.
This is a rare 0 to 1 mandate: hand-pick four exceptional engineers, then hunt down the highest-leverage friction in GitLab's own software pipeline and fix it at the root. You will baseline three honest numbers in public, chase them, and report the truth even when a bet does not pay off. If you would rather run understaffed than settle for good-enough, and you love turning a vague mandate into measurable step-change, this fits you.
Needs
- building a team
- recruiting engineers
- root-cause diagnosis
- cicd depth
- hands-on debugging
- setting direction
Rewards
- measurable metric movement
- step-change impact
- real autonomy
- 0 to 1 building
- compounding fixes
Demands
- living with ambiguity
- a time-boxed pilot
- executive communication
- public metric baselines
- negotiating allocations
- winning adoption
Grows
- coaching engineers
- learning agent workflows
- strategic framing
- spotting friction
Values
- talent over headcount
- honest reporting
- rigour over patches
- owning outcomes
- system-level pragmatism
Drains
- reporting cadences
- building the case
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