Staff Executive Business Partner

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 a Staff Executive Business Partner, you’ll be a trusted partner to GitLab’s Chief Technology Officer, ensuring their time, information, and priorities are aligned to what matters most for GitLab’s engineering, product, and customer outcomes in a fast-paced, public-company environment. You’ll manage complex calendars, orchestrate end-to-end travel and events, and turn high-level ideas and meeting topics into clear agendas, materials, and follow-through so the CTO and their teams can stay focused on impact. You’ll use tools like Google Workspace, Slack, Zoom, Navan, GitLab, and AI solutions every day to streamline workflows, anticipate needs, and keep work moving smoothly across Engineering, Product, Security, and their cross-functional partners. You’ll collaborate closely with other executive support team members, Chiefs of Staff, People Operations, IT, and leaders across GitLab to maintain clear communication, track deliverables across organizational boundaries, and support hiring, onboarding, and engagement activities for a large, globally distributed technical organization. In your first year, you’ll be expected to build strong, trust-based relationships, bring structure and calm to ambiguity, proactively flag risks and opportunities, and contribute to the broader executive support community through shared practices and coverage. This is not a traditional executive support role. The CTO’s operating tempo, breadth of stakeholders (engineering, go-to-market, customers, board, and co-founder), and strategic context require an EBP who can exercise independent judgment across administrative, programmatic, and people dimensions. The bar is high: you are expected to operate autonomously on 80%+ of tasks without needing the CTO to “load context” or provide step-by-step direction. When this works well, you create significant leverage by making the calls the CTO would make, keeping their operating cadence on track, and serving as connective tissue across the org. What You’ll Do Own day-to-day executive operations for GitLab’s CTO by anticipating needs, managing priorities, and ensuring the right information, people, and decisions come together at the right time. Manage complex calendars with proactive optimization: protect focus blocks, resolve conflicts across time zones, and pre-stage briefing materials so the CTO is always prepared for internal and external meetings. Manage inbound requests and triage on behalf of the CTO — know what to accept, defer, delegate, or decline without asking in most cases, based on a deep understanding of priorities and stakehol ... (truncated, view full listing at source)