Principal Growth Marketing Strategist

The role

You will act as a strategic partner and operator to the VP of Growth Marketing. You will manage the operating rhythm, strategic projects, and budget across ten marketing functions.

What you will do

• Run Growth Marketing's operating rhythm including goals, business reviews, and planning cycles
• Track commitments across the leadership team
• Own strategic projects that have no single functional home
• Hold the budget picture across the team and prepare trade offs
• Represent Growth Marketing on the VP's behalf in pipeline reviews and partner conversations
• Unblock functional leaders
• Be a thinking partner to functional leaders
• Partner with marketing's AI Transformation Owner
• Prepare the VP for executive updates, leadership material, keynotes, and meetings

Required qualifications

• Extensive experience in B2B software marketing with senior leadership experience
• Owned a marketing function, a large program budget or a go to market motion
• Accountable for a pipeline or revenue number
• Breadth across marketing including demand and digital, field and events, lifecycle or product led growth, partner marketing and marketing operations
• Track record of landing cross functional projects through influence
• Ability to read a P&L, a pipeline report and a budget model
• Understanding of consumption and subscription business models
• Program and operating rhythm experience
• Hands on AI fluency including daily use of AI tools
• Executive communication skills including concise writing and clear verbal briefs
• Discretion with confidential people, budget and strategy information
• Familiarity with developer, DevOps or platform engineering audiences

Nice to have

• Prior experience in a chief of staff, strategy and operations, or business operations role

Benefits

• 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

About the company

GitLab is the intelligent orchestration platform for DevSecOps. It enables organizations to increase developer productivity, improve operational efficiency, reduce security and compliance risk, and accelerate digital transformation.