Principal Product Manager, AI Custom Models

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in United States.

📋 Description

• Lead the development of product strategy and roadmap for custom models and self-hosted AI capabilities at GitLab.

• Drive the discovery, prioritization, and implementation of features that enhance model flexibility, self-managed deployments, and AI agent orchestration use cases.

• Collaborate effectively with engineering, design, and other product leaders to transform complex customer and technical requirements into clear product direction.

• Define product specifications that take into account infrastructure, configuration, deployment, and hardware considerations in self-hosted environments.

• Work alongside internal stakeholders on GitLab AI initiatives to ensure this product area aligns with the broader platform strategy.

• Guide tradeoff decisions with a strong emphasis on customer value, technical feasibility, and long-term platform quality.

• Facilitate knowledge transfer and continuity as the team expands and evolves, aiding new projects in progressing with context and clarity.

• Clearly communicate plans, decisions, and priorities in a transparent manner that enables distributed teams to execute asynchronously.

⛳️ Requirements

• Proven experience in owning product strategy for technical platforms, infrastructure, or AI-driven products.

• Understanding of AI model ecosystems, including custom model options, open models, or open weight models, and the product decisions required to support them.

• Familiarity with self-hosted or self-managed software and the operational requirements of customers utilizing software in their own environments.

• Capability to collaborate effectively with engineers on topics such as configuration, infrastructure, deployment patterns, and hardware-related constraints.

• Experience in leading complex product initiatives involving multiple stakeholders and making clear decisions in technically ambiguous areas.

• Proficiency in both written and verbal communication, with the ability to convey product direction effectively in a distributed, asynchronous environment.

• Judgment to operate at a principal level, with ownership across strategy, execution, and cross-functional alignment.

• Willingness to apply transferable experience from adjacent fields such as DevSecOps, developer platforms, infrastructure software, or applied AI products.

🏝️ Benefits

• Comprehensive benefits to support your health, financial stability, and overall well-being.

• Flexible Paid Time Off options.

• Access to Team Member Resource Groups.

• Equity compensation and an Employee Stock Purchase Plan.

• Growth and Development Fund for professional advancement.

• Parental Leave to support family needs.