GitLab is hiring a
Staff Technical Program Manager

Summary

The Staff Technical Program Manager, R&D Compliance at GitLab is responsible for managing compliance issues across the organization, working with systems owners to identify risks and controls, leading SOX compliance training programs, and collaborating with all functions of the company to ensure IT Compliance needs are addressed. The role requires professional certification such as CISA, CISM, CISSP or similar, minimum 7+ years of relevant work experience, recent hands-on SOX experience, strong planning, project management, and analytical skills, and ability to use GitLab.

Requirements

• Professional certification such as CISA, CISM, CISSP or similar is strongly preferred
• Minimum 7+ years of relevant work experience (Big 4 public accounting and corporate SOX experience in a multi-national public company strongly preferred)
• Must have recent hands-on SOX experience including successful remediation of compliance deficiencies and material weaknesses with similar size companies
• Proven track record of successful collaboration with internal and external partners
• Strong planning, project management, and analytical skills
• Experience managing the execution of complex programs that span multiple cross-functional teams
• Experience working with leadership to execute on IT Compliance processes and procedures
• Contribute to and enable GitLab’s operational strategy by enabling distributed asynchronous operations while ensuring compliance with GDPR, SOX, ISO 27001, and other standards
• Ability to use GitLab
• Experience building and maintaining corporate R&D Compliance policies and processes

Responsibilities

• Be the R&D Compliance Expert at GitLab
• Work with R&D stakeholders to design, document, test, and remediate IT systems controls to achieve ongoing compliance with SOX and other applicable compliance standards such as SOC2, ISO 27001, and GDPR
• Interface with internal and external auditors
• A change agent, influencer, cross-functional leader and collaborator to drive and facilitate ongoing SOX and compliance training programs for R&D process and control owners
• Ascertaining the appropriateness of the Company’s protection and safeguarding of assets and information and recommending areas for improvements
• Triage and manage compliance priorities of the R&D division
• Create and execute a plan to develop and mature our IT Compliance capabilities and Infrastructure

Benefits

• Benefits to support your health, finances, and well-being
• All remote , asynchronous work environment
• Flexible Paid Time Off
• Team Member Resource Groups
• Equity Compensation & Employee Stock Purchase Plan
• Growth and development budget
• Parental leave
• Home office support