Job brief: Principal Growth Marketing Strategist

What JoRoute checked · Checked by JoRoute

• Listed on GitLab's own job board. JoRoute does not take listings from job ads or recruiters.
• First seen by JoRoute 2026-11-07 (today); last confirmed on the board 2026-11-07.
• The apply link opens job-boards.greenhouse.io, the address GitLab's board gives for this job.
• No other listing with this title and place on this board in the last 90 days.
• No layoff notices (WARN) under this name in the state files JoRoute reads.

What the listing says · Employer's own words, not checked

• Pay: $152,800 to $259,200 a year
• Job type: Not stated
• Where: Remote · Remote, Canada; Remote, United States · North America
• Posted: 2026-11-06

What the job asks · Employer's own words, not checked

Level: Lead / staff. The title says "Principal".

Must have

• Fortune 500® is a registered trademark of Fortune Media IP Limited, used under license.
• Prior experience in a chief of staff, strategy and operations, or business operations role is welcome but not required.
• many successful candidates do not meet every single requirement.

Conditions

• The ability to use GitLab, and to travel occasionally for events and leadership offsites.

Main duties

• Run Growth Marketing's operating rhythm: goals, business reviews, planning cycles and the metrics inspection behind them, so decisions get made, recorded and…
• Track commitments across the leadership team between their 1:1s with the VP, so those conversations are about strategy rather than status.
• Own the strategic projects that matter to Growth Marketing and have no single functional home: scope them, find the owner or be the owner, and land them.
• Hold the budget picture across the team, prepare trade offs with a recommendation, and act within the authority the VP has delegated in writing.
• Represent Growth Marketing on the VP's behalf in pipeline reviews, cross functional planning and partner conversations; carry the position in and the decisio…

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How it compares · Compared by JoRoute from listings

• Typical listed pay for marketing jobs across the U.S.: $180k a year (267 listings, 52 employers). This listing is 14% higher.
• Across GitLab's 125 open listings, 22% of those with a posting date were first posted more than 60 days ago. How GitLab hires

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