Staff Data Analyst - GitLab

GitLab is the intelligent orchestration platform for DevSecOps, enabling organizations to increase developer productivity, improve operational efficiency, reduce security and compliance risk, and accelerate digital transformation. We embrace AI as a core productivity multiplier, expecting all team members to incorporate AI into their daily workflows. GitLab is where careers accelerate, innovation flourishes, and every voice is valued.

An Overview of This Role

As a Staff Data Analyst, you will transform raw data into actionable insights that inform strategic decisions across GitLab's global Support Engineering organization. You will design dashboards, reports, and data models to help leaders monitor performance, optimize costs, and improve customer outcomes. You will also foster data innovation through thoughtful experimentation and problem-solving.

What You'll Do

• Own annual operating plan and capacity planning through data modeling and validation that support workforce and budget decisions.
• Build and maintain utilization and team-performance scorecards, including automated alerting that surfaces trends in real time.
• Analyze Support Economics, including cost-per-ticket modeling, self-service savings, and product quality costs.
• Develop performance indexes and heatmaps that identify product areas and customers using the most support resources.
• Lead dashboarding for AI adoption and return on investment, measuring the business impact of AI-driven initiatives across Support Engineering.
• Partner with go-to-market teams on predictive analytics and churn-prevention models that identify at-risk customers.
• Define and refine unified customer-schema requirements to create consistent data across systems and a single source of truth.
• Deliver Monthly Business Review telemetry, executive-ready reporting packages, recurring operational reports, and ad hoc analysis.

What You'll Bring

• Experience as a business intelligence analyst, analytics engineer, or in a similar data role, ideally in a software as a service or technology company.
• Experience partnering with Technical Support, Business Operations, Product Engineering, or similar organizations.
• Fluency in SQL, including complex multi-table joins, grouping and aggregation, common table expressions, and conditional filters.
• Hands-on experience building dashboards and reports in Zendesk Explore, Tableau, Looker, or similar business intelligence tools.
• Ability to translate ambiguous business questions into structured analytical frameworks.
• Skill in presenting findings clearly to technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Capability to plan and prioritize work independently in a remote, cross-functional environment across time zones.
• You may also bring experience with large language model-based tools, artificial intelligence and machine learning workflows, durable data solutions, analytics frameworks, in-depth data analysis, or presenting to senior leaders and executives.

About the Team

Our Support Engineering organization leverages data to understand performance, improve customer outcomes, and enhance operational practices. You will collaborate across Support Engineering, go-to-market teams, Business Operations, and Product Engineering in an all-remote environment.

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

Please note that we welcome interest from candidates with varying levels of experience; many successful candidates do not meet every single requirement. Additionally, studies have shown that people from underrepresented groups are less likely to apply to a job unless they meet every single qualification. If you're excited about this role, please apply and allow our recruiters to assess your application.

GitLab is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and is an affirmative action employer. Our policies and practices relating to recruitment, employment, career development and advancement, promotion, and retirement are based solely on merit, regardless of race, color, religion, ancestry, sex (including pregnancy, lactation, sexual orientation, gender identity, or gender expression), national origin, age, citizenship, marital status, mental or physical disability, genetic information (including family medical history), discharge status from the military, protected veteran status, or any other basis protected by law. GitLab will not tolerate discrimination or harassment based on any of these characteristics. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please let us know during the recruiting process.