Lead Project Manager, CRO Programs
Location: Remote, North America
Department: CRO Executive
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.
An overview of this role
You'll be the Lead Project Manager, CRO Programs who helps GitLab's Revenue organization turn executive priorities into shipped outcomes. In this role, you'll sit within the Office of the CRO, coordinating multiple CRO-level initiatives end-to-end and keeping senior leaders aligned across Sales, Revenue Strategy and Operations, Ecosystem, Enablement, Finance, and People. You'll bring clarity to complex, fast-moving work by tracking owners, dependencies, and decisions, surfacing risks early, and driving follow-through without adding process overhead. Reporting to the Chief of Staff to the CRO.
Some examples of our projects:
- CRO operating model initiatives like rolling out new objectives, quarterly planning processes, or operating rhythms across the Revenue organization
- Go-to-market changes such as territory updates, new sales motions, compensation plan changes, or sales methodology adoption
What you'll do
- Own execution visibility across CRO initiatives — proactively surfacing stalled work, unclear ownership and ensuring CRO leadership has reliable, real-time insight into progress
- Lead coordination for multiple CRO-level strategic initiatives, keeping deliverables, owners, dependencies, due dates, and status clear and current
- Drive information architecture across initiatives — establishing shared standards for how work is tracked, communicated, and accessed
- Drive follow-through from leadership meetings by capturing decisions, action items, and next steps, then tracking completion through to delivery
- Collaborate with senior stakeholders across Sales, Revenue Strategy and Operations, Ecosystem, Enablement, Finance, and People to keep work moving and priorities aligned
- Translate executive direction into actionable workstreams, quickly moving from "what" to "who does what by when"
- Surface risks early by identifying blockers, unclear ownership, competing priorities, and slippage
- Own the operating cadence including tracking initiative progress, managing reporting timelines, and coordinating submissions
- Hold partners accountable without direct authority by following up diplomatically and persistently
What you'll bring
- Experience coordinating complex, cross-functional strategic initiatives, tracking owners, dependencies, timelines, and deliverables through to completion
- Ability to drive follow-through from senior stakeholders without direct authority
- Comfort operating in ambiguity and shifting priorities
- Strong organizational judgment, including sequencing work and identifying risks early
- Familiarity working in or closely with revenue-facing teams (Sales, revenue strategy and operations, go-to-market functions)
- Experience building or improving workflow systems — using automation, shared documentation standards, or project management tooling
- Pragmatic use of project management tools to create visibility and accountability
Benefits
- Flexible Paid Time Off
- Equity Compensation & Employee Stock Purchase Plan
- Growth and Development Fund
- Parental leave
- Home office support
