Senior Product Manager, Secret Detection and Vulnerability Research
The Senior Product Manager will lead the strategy and roadmap for GitLab's Secret Detection and Vulnerability Research, focusing on improving detection quality and driving revenue through security product adoption. The role involves leveraging AI to enhance detection pipelines and collaborating with cross-functional teams to secure the software supply chain.
- Compensation
- Not disclosed
- Location
- Remote, United States
- Work setup
- Remote
- Seniority
- Senior
- Employment
- Full time
- Experience
- Not specified
- Category
- Product
- Posted
Skills
Must have
- Domain depth in application security, vulnerability management, or security research
- Technical credibility to reason about detection logic, data pipelines, and CI integration
- Commercial reasoning focused on revenue mechanics and competitive displacement
- Evidence of using AI as a force multiplier in research, analysis, and prototyping
- Judgment under ambiguity and ability to provide structured recommendations
- Strong written communication skills for asynchronous collaboration
Nice to have
- Hands-on background as a developer, security engineer, red teamer, or researcher
- Experience with credential and token ecosystems
- Experience commercializing a data or intelligence asset
Full description
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 Senior Product Manager, you will own GitLab's Secret Detection offering and the Vulnerability Research function that produces the detection content across security products. Secret Detection is one of the highest-signal, highest-volume security capabilities on the platform. Leaked credentials are the most common initial access vector in real breaches, and as AI agents write, commit, and configure more of the software, the surface area for exposed secrets grows faster than the number of humans watching it.
You will own the full loop: detect a secret with high precision, tell the customer whether it is still live, get it revoked, and prevent the next one from ever landing. In parallel, you will own vulnerability research as a product asset rather than a back-office function. The detection rules, advisory data, and malicious package and reference intelligence your team produces are what make GitLab's security scanners worth paying for, and they need to ship on a cadence with measurable quality.
This is an outcome-owning role - you will carry adoption, retention, and revenue targets for your area and be expected to explain how your roadmap moves them.
Some examples of our projects:
- Push protection and pre-receive blocking that stops a credential before it reaches a repository, without wrecking developer flow
- Secret validity checking and automated revocation partnerships with major cloud and SaaS token issuers