Manager, Strategic Finance

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 GitLab is looking for a Manager, Strategic Finance to join our Strategic Finance team. This role focuses on financial planning, analysis, and business operations. You’ll lead modeling for long-range bookings forecasts and help shape earnings guidance and recommendations for GitLab executives and the Board of Directors. Reporting to a Director, you’ll work closely with the Chief Financial Officer, executive leaders, and partners across Product, Sales, Marketing, Revenue Operations, and Engineering. What You’ll Do Own and improve demand-based models for Annual Recurring Revenue (ARR) growth and bookings, including seat, price, tier, customer retention, and consumption dynamics across GitLab’s products. Manage the long-range financial model for bookings by product and forecast new business ARR and customer growth by geography and segment. Develop new business targets and assessments that support Marketing, Sales Development Representatives, Account Executives, and Partners. Build and govern business cases for new product offerings, including artificial intelligence products and strategic partnerships, in collaboration with Finance, Product, Sales Strategy, Marketing, and Engineering. Support pricing and packaging strategy through reporting, price-change assessment, and scenario modeling. Assess GitLab’s market opportunity and market landscape, assess why GitLab wins and loses deals, and link customer demand to product and growth priorities. Assess unit economics across customer segments and geographies, including lifetime value, customer acquisition cost, payback periods, marketing return on investment, and gross margin by product line. Advise on strategic deals and partnerships, assess product key performance indicators, and explain how adoption trends may affect bookings and future financial performance. What You’ll Bring Experience in strategic finance, investment banking, private equity, venture capital, hedge funds, management consulting, a technology startup, or a similarly analytical role. A strategic thinker with broad business acumen and a passion for software and AI technologies and their commercialization Self starter with an ownership mentality who thrives in ambiguity and delivers insights to executives in a thoughtful and persuasive manner Strong financial modeling skills and experience building new models and processes from scratch, improving existing ones, and structuring ambiguous business questions from fundamentals. Experience translating complex data into clear, polished recommendations for executive audiences. Define problems, manage multiple time-sens…