Director of Recruiting, Engineering & IT - GitLab

About GitLab

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.

Overview of the Role

As Director of Recruiting, Engineering and Information Technology, you’ll lead GitLab’s India-based recruiting efforts for Engineering and IT while helping shape technical hiring across the broader Asia-Pacific region. You’ll lead recruiting managers and their teams, set the regional talent strategy, and maintain direct ownership of senior and executive-level searches. Reporting to the Vice President of Talent Acquisition or an equivalent senior Talent Acquisition leader, you’ll help GitLab build exceptional technical teams in high-growth markets and create a scalable, well-documented recruiting model.

You’ll serve as a trusted talent advisor to Engineering and IT leaders, using market intelligence and hiring data to guide workforce planning, organization design, and recruiting priorities. You’ll also strengthen recruiting leadership, candidate experience, and GitLab’s employer presence while supporting an all-remote, globally distributed team.

What You'll Do

• Lead and Develop Teams: Lead a multi-layered recruiting organization, including recruiting managers and individual contributors, supporting 100 to 200 or more Engineering and IT requisitions across India and the broader Asia-Pacific region.
• Build Leadership Capability: Coach recruiting managers, establish clear expectations, structured operating cadences, and development plans.
• Executive Search Ownership: Own GitLab’s most senior and executive-level technical searches in the region, including Vice President and C-suite-adjacent leadership roles.
• Sourcing Strategy: Set sourcing, talent pipeline, and market strategies for hard-to-fill roles in artificial intelligence, machine learning, generative artificial intelligence, security, infrastructure, and emerging technologies.
• Strategic Advisory: Advise senior Engineering and IT leaders on organization design, workforce planning, compensation considerations, talent availability, and hiring priorities.
• Data & Metrics: Define regional hiring metrics and reporting, surface risks and bottlenecks to senior leaders, and recommend practical solutions that support predictable, high-quality hiring.
• Cross-Functional Collaboration: Partner with People Business Partners, Compensation, Finance, and other recruiting leaders on headcount strategy, process improvements, tooling decisions, and company-wide talent priorities.
• Inclusion & Experience: Champion diversity, inclusion, and belonging, strengthen candidate and hiring team experiences, and build an effective operating model for all-remote collaboration across regions and time zones.

What You'll Bring

• Recruiting Leadership: Experience leading recruiting in high-growth technology companies, including enterprise-scale or similarly complex hiring environments.
• People Management: Experience managing recruiting managers or leading a multi-layered recruiting organization with accountability for team performance and development.
• Technical Recruiting Expertise: Deep experience recruiting Engineering and IT talent, from individual contributor roles through senior and executive leadership positions.
• Executive Sourcing: A proven record of sourcing, engaging, and closing passive candidates for senior technical and leadership roles in competitive markets.
• Regional Market Knowledge: Deep knowledge of India’s technology talent market and experience setting hiring strategy across India and the broader Asia-Pacific region.
• Distributed Team Leadership: Experience leading distributed teams and large, multi-portfolio hiring plans while advising senior leaders through growth and organizational change.
• Communication Skills: Clear written and verbal communication when advising senior leaders on recruiting strategy and priorities.
• Data-Informed Approach: Experience with hiring metrics, dashboards, market intelligence, applicant tracking systems, LinkedIn Recruiter, and sourcing tools. Experience with Greenhouse is helpful.

About the Team

We help GitLab build the teams needed to co-create the future of software development. We work asynchronously across time zones and partner closely with Engineering, IT, People Business Partners, Compensation, and Finance to deliver high-quality hiring, strengthen leadership capability, and build transparent, scalable recruiting practices.

How GitLab Supports Full-Time Employees

• Benefits to support your health, finances, and well-being
• Flexible Paid Time Off
• Team Member Resource Groups
• Equity Compensation & Employee Stock Purchase Plan
• Growth and Development Fund
• Parental Leave