Senior Diversity Business Partner

An overview of the role

We're looking for a Senior Diversity Business Partner to provide partnership support and strategic oversight for our Engineering Product and Security divisions. As a Senior Diversity Business Partner you will be directly responsible for augmenting our overall strategy into our R&D functional areas creating milestones tracking progress and ultimately supporting leaders in driving results on representation within GitLab. This is a highly collaborative role dependent on strong strategic relationships within the business. Experience influencing senior stakeholders in inclusive behaviors and best practice will be highly applicable to this role and essential in ensuring DIB initiatives impact the engagement retention and development of diverse talent. This is an exciting opportunity to drive an outsized impact at GitLab and a passion for building and driving inclusivity throughout the ways we work is key.

What you’ll do

• Influence and hold leadership accountable to deliver on DIB initiatives; provide consultation coordination and strategic planning for the design and implementation of programs focused on creating a culture of belonging developing and advancing diverse internal talent and reducing the attrition of diverse talent.

• Focus on and drive initiatives that move the needle on our overall headcount and promotions among underrepresented groups.

• Expand and extend GitLab’s DIB strategy into the R&D organization with added rigor and accountability.

• Leverage data driven insights throughout to determine the narrative measure success and advocate for change.

• Build strong collaborative working relationships among People and other cross-functional teams.

• Establish manage and iterate on key performance indicators and OKRs specifically supporting the employee lifecycle within the Engineering Product and Security departments.

• Ensure alignment with our Learning and Development team members and develop a long term roadmap that will scale beyond R&D.

• Alignment with people business partners on org health metrics for R&D divisions and subsequent DIB programs necessary pending outcomes

• Manage monthly DIB communication strategy in alignment with internal communications teams

• Default to partnership in order to build meaningful programs that inspire and deliver change in the organization.

What you’ll bring

• Strong knowledge of diversity inclusion belonging and equity principles best practices and legal considerations.

• Experience in building programs from the ground up establishing measures of success and leveraging strong communication to influence strategy

• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills with the ability to build relationships and influence at all levels of the organization.

• Proven analytical skills with experience in using data to drive decisions and measure impact.

• Ability to design and deliver impactful programs training and workshops.

• Experience with project management and the ability to manage multiple initiatives simultaneously.

• Passionate about creating an inclusive and equitable workplace.

• Demonstrates the GitLab values cultural competency and sensitivity.

• Proactive innovative and solution-oriented mindset.

About the team

We work in quite a unique way at GitLab with flexibility and independence mixed with a high-paced pragmatic way of working. Everything that we can we do in the open.

How GitLab will support you

• Benefits to support your health finances and well-being

• All remote asynchronous work environment

• Flexible Paid Time Off

• Team Member Resource Groups

• Equity Compensation & Employee Stock Purchase Plan

• Growth and development budget

• Parental leave

• Home office support

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