Director, Pipeline Excellence

About this role

GitLab is the intelligent orchestration platform for DevSecOps. GitLab enables organizations to increase developer productivity, improve operational efficiency, reduce security and compliance risk, and accelerate digital transformation. More than 50 million registered users and more than 50% of the Fortune 100* trust GitLab to ship better, more secure software faster. The same principles built into our products are reflected in how our team works: we embrace AI as a core productivity multiplier, with all team members expected to incorporate AI into their daily workflows to drive efficiency, innovation, and impact. GitLab is where careers accelerate, innovation flourishes, and every voice is valued. Our high-performance culture is driven by our values and continuous knowledge exchange, enabling our team members to reach their full potential while collaborating with industry leaders to solve complex problems. Co-create the future with us as we build technology that transforms how the world develops software. * Fortune 500® is a registered trademark of Fortune Media IP Limited, used under license. Claim based on GitLab data. Fortune 100 refers to the top 20% ranked companies in the 2025 Fortune 500 list, published in June 2025. Fortune and Fortune Media IP Limited are not affiliated with, and do not endorse products or services of GitLab. An overview of this role As the Director, Pipeline Excellence you'll help GitLab build a predictable, efficient, and scalable pipeline engine across our go-to-market motions. You'll own pipeline strategy, the operating cadence, and performance improvement work so we can consistently meet pipeline and revenue goals. You'll partner with sales, marketing, sales development, customer success, finance, and analytics to align multi-quarter targets and investments, codify global operating standards, and improve funnel conversion and velocity across inbound, outbound, partner, and expansion. In your first year, you'll strengthen the 13-week Revenue Operating Cadence for pipeline, establish clear pipeline definitions and hygiene standards, and deliver reporting and insights that improve execution quality, forecast accuracy, and decision-making. It's a unique opportunity to shape how GitLab plans, generates, and converts pipeline at scale in a remote, globally distributed environment. What you’ll do • Lead GitLab's end-to-end pipeline growth strategy and multi-quarter target-setting across regions, segments, and routes-to-market (inbound, outbound, partner, and expansion), including capacity planning and program mix decisions. • Translate top-down revenue and coverage goals into bottom-up pipeline targets, capacity plans, and the channel and program mix, in partnership with sales, marketing, and finance. • Design, run, and continuously improve GitLab's pipeline operating rhythm anchored in the 13-week Revenue Operating Cadence, including pipeline reviews, pipeline council, sales plays, and executive updates aligned to monthly and quarterly forecasting milestones. • Own the design and execution of pipeline generation programs, including codified sales plays and pipeline generation days every other week, ensuring alignment to annual operating plan targets and coverage needs. • Define and enforce global pipeline operating standards across the funnel (lead to opportunity to closed-won), including qualification standards, handoffs, service level agreements (SLAs), routing logic, and stage definitions. • Build and maintain a clear pipeline taxonomy (source, type, motion, segment) and a shared glossary for pipeline metrics to ensure consistent reporting and decision-making. • Establish pipeline hygiene standards and checkpoints (weekly, monthly, and quarterly) to improve data quality, forecast accuracy, and execution consistency across go-to-market teams. • Deliver pipeline analytics, dashboards, and funnel diagnostics (coverage, creation, conversion, velocity, quality, and pipeline at risk), and provide clear recommendations on where to invest to hit pipeline and revenue goals. What you’ll bring • Deep experience in revenue operations, sales operations, marketing operations, or related go-to-market strategy and operations roles, with significant ownership of pipeline and funnel management in B2B SaaS. • Ability to navigate and influence complex, cross-functional organizations, balancing the needs of sales, marketing, sales development, customer success, finance, and analytics while operating effectively in ambiguity. • Proven director-level leadership skills, including experience managing, mentoring, and developing high-performing operations and analytics teams. • Strong understanding of end-to-end go-to-market funnels across inbound, outbound, partner, and expansion motions, and how pipeline coverage, conversion, velocity, and quality translate to revenue outcomes. • Excellent analytical and communication skills, including comfort turning data into clear recommendations and influencing senior go-to-market and finance leaders through concise narratives and decision support. • Experience designing and running operating cadences and governance for pipeline performance (including forecasting milestones, pipeline reviews, and hygiene checkpoints) with clear owners, inputs, outputs, and decisions. • Ability to define, document, and drive adoption of standardized process and data definitions (for example, pipeline taxonomy, stages, service level agreements (SLAs), and hygiene standards) across systems and teams. • Capacity to work autonomously and asynchronously in a fully remote environment while staying aligned to shared goals, processes, and priorities across the broader GitLab team. • Familiarity with customer relationship management (CRM) and business intelligence (BI) tools (for example, Salesforce for CRM and Looker or Tableau for BI) to build dashboards, metrics frameworks, and self-serve reporting for pipeline and funnel performance. The base salary range for this role’s listed level is currently for residents of the United States only. This range is intended to reflect the role's base salary rate in locations throughout the US. Grade level and salary ranges are determined through interviews and a review of education, experience, knowledge, skills, abilities of the applicant, equity with other team members, alignment with market data, and geographic location. The base salary range does not include any bonuses, equity, or benefits. See more information on our benefits and equity . Sales roles are also eligible for incentive pay targeted at up to 100% of the offered base salary. United States Salary Range $168,000 — $285,600 USD How GitLab Supports Full-Time Employees • 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 Please note that we welcome interest from candidates with varying levels of experience; many successful candidates do not meet every single requirement. Additionally, studies have shown that people from underrepresented groups are less likely to apply to a job unless they meet every single qualification. If you're excited about this role, please apply and allow our recruiters to assess your application. Country Hiring Guidelines: GitLab hires new team members in countries around the world. All of our roles are remote, however some roles may carry specific location-based eligibility requirements. 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