Senior Director Associate General Counsel

An overview of the role

As Senior Director Associate General Counsel you'll own the vision strategy and execution of GitLab's corporate and compliance legal function at a senior leadership level reporting to the Chief Legal Officer. You'll be a key member of the Legal leadership team and a trusted executive partner to the CFO People organization and broader E-Group on corporate governance securities equity compliance ethics and M&A matters. You'll set the tone for how corporate legal operates as a strategic business enabler accountable for the programs judgment and infrastructure that let GitLab operate as a scaled public company with rigor and speed.

This role spans corporate governance securities compliance compliance ethics equity plan administration executive compensation and M&A building and leading a team of corporate attorneys and paralegals as GitLab's corporate and compliance legal needs continue to grow. This is a role for a seasoned legal leader who has operated inside a public company who knows what great governance looks like at scale and who is ready to shape the corporate legal function for a company operating at the intersection of DevSecOps AI and enterprise SaaS.

What You'll Do

• Define and execute the long-term strategy for GitLab's corporate and compliance legal function aligning legal priorities with the company's public company obligations governance standards and growth trajectory
• Serve as a primary legal executive partner to the CFO People leadership and E-Group advising on corporate governance securities matters equity strategy executive compensation and M&A at the highest levels of complexity and materiality
• Build lead and develop a high-performing team of corporate attorneys and paralegals fostering a high-performance async-first culture as the function scales
• Advise on draft and maintain templates policies and processes for corporate law matters including securities filings governance documentation equity plan administration executive compensation and M&A transactions
• Own GitLab's ongoing SEC reporting and disclosure obligations working closely with Finance Accounting and external auditors on legal issues relevant to accounting treatment and public company disclosure
• Lead legal support for equity plan administration partnering with Stock Administration People and Total Rewards on plan design grant practices and compliance
• Monitor and analyze changes in corporate and securities law assess legal risk and propose creative practical solutions that account for GitLab's culture brand and business priorities
• Anticipate legal issues and risks tied to GitLab's continued scale building the processes and systems needed to minimize potential impact
• Champion AI-enabled legal workflows within the corporate legal team driving adoption of tools that make governance disclosure and contract review faster and more consistent
• Manage outside counsel relationships across corporate securities and M&A matters ensuring efficient and effective use of external resources
• Serve as a senior voice on cross-functional initiatives involving Legal Finance People and Investor Relations influencing decisions that shape how GitLab operates as a public company

What You'll Bring

• 8+ years of combined law firm and in-house legal experience with substantial tenure leading corporate legal matters at a multinational publicly traded technology company
• J.D. or U.S. law degree equivalent with bar admission in good standing in at least one U.S. state
• In-house public company experience with strong working knowledge of the '33 Act and '34 Act and demonstrated experience managing SEC reporting and disclosure obligations
• Proven success partnering across business units including Finance Stock Administration Accounting People and Marketing to resolve complex business and risk management issues while weighing non-legal variables such as culture brand communications government relations tax and insurance
• Experience advising executives and the board on corporate governance securities equity compensation and M&A matters
• Demonstrated fluency in applying AI tools to legal workflows with a track record of driving adoption across a team rather than just individual use
• Practical creative problem-solving approach that emphasizes addressing business needs while protecting GitLab's interests
• Proactive dynamic and results-driven leader with strong attention to detail and familiarity working across time zones and cultures
• Outstanding interpersonal and executive communication skills with the ability to interface effectively across all business functions with a responsive service-oriented attitude
• Sound practical business judgment and demonstrated ability to lead in a fully remote asynchronous environment

About the Team

The Corporate and Compliance Legal team partners with Finance People and the broader E-Group to support GitLab's obligations as a public company. You'll join and lead a globally distributed team that works asynchronously and closely with internal stakeholders and outside counsel on governance securities compliance equity administration and M&A. Our focus includes maintaining rigorous public company processes keeping pace with evolving securities and corporate law requirements and strengthening enablement through clear documentation training and AI-supported workflows.

What We Do

GitLab is the Intelligent Orchestration Platform where software teams and their AI agents stay in flow to amplify their capacity for innovation. Together they automate repetitive tasks to plan build secure test deploy and maintain software. With GitLab software teams spend less time on coordination overhead and more time on the next big idea.What started in 2011 as an open source project to help one team of programmers collaborate is now the intelligent orchestration platform millions of people use to deliver software faster more efficiently while strengthening security and compliance.Since the beginning we've been firm believers in remote work open source DevSecOps and iteration. We get up and log on in the morning to work alongside the GitLab community to deliver new innovations every month that help teams and their AI agents ship great code faster.

Why Work With Us

GitLab is where careers accelerate innovation flourishes and every voice is valued. Co-create the future with us as we build technology that transforms how the world develops software.

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