# Manager, Engineering, Nonlinear Productivity (Friction Elimination & Solutions)

**Company**: GitLab
**Location**: Bangalore
**Work arrangement**: remote
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

GitLab is seeking a Manager, Engineering, Nonlinear Productivity (Friction Elimination & Solutions) to help break the linear relationship between headcount and engineering output.

As Manager, Engineering, Nonlinear Productivity (Friction Elimination & Solutions), you’ll oversee the initiative’s forward-scanning work, reviewing GitLab’s software development lifecycle and code-generation workflows to spot recurring friction, test durable fixes, and identify internal solutions that could become customer-facing products.

**Responsibilities:**

- Survey GitLab’s internal software development lifecycle and code-generation workflows to identify structural friction early, and build a data-backed view of where technical interventions will have the highest leverage.

- Evaluate build, buy, and adapt options for each opportunity, including emerging agentic and AI tooling, with a clear view of cost, risk, and durability.

- Stand up prototypes and review architecture directly to test whether a proposed fix moves a target metric and represents a durable solution before GitLab makes broader engineering investment.

- Hire and manage a small, high-caliber team, or operate as a hands-on working manager, with a focus on talent density over headcount.

- Drive validated fixes from prototype to internal adoption by partnering with affected teams so solutions are relied on, used, and maintained.

- Build the technical and business case for productizing internal fixes that prove durable, in partnership with product.

- Document reusable learnings so successful internal fixes don’t remain tribal knowledge.

- Report impact through changes in key metrics and progress on turning internal fixes into products, including a clear account of what didn’t work.

**Requirements:**

- Ability to use GitLab.

- A track record of identifying and shipping technical fixes for developer productivity, continuous integration and continuous delivery, or platform friction, including problems you found before they were assigned.

- Comfort operating with high ambiguity and no existing backlog, building the roadmap rather than executing one handed down.

- People management experience, including in a small-team or working-manager capacity.

- Technical depth to evaluate and prototype solutions directly, not only direct others toward them.

- Product judgment to assess whether an internal tool could hold up for paying customers.

- Familiarity with agentic or AI-assisted development tooling.

- Experience moving an internal tool toward an external, customer-facing product is advantageous.

**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

## Skills

### Required
- GitLab
- developer productivity
- continuous integration
- continuous delivery
- platform friction
- AI-assisted development tooling

### Nice to have
- agentic development tooling
- product development

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