Senior Professional Services Partners Manager, Subcontractor Partner Solutions

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 As the Senior Professional Services Partners Manager, Subcontractor Partner Solutions, you will own the strategy, operating model, and partner relationship framework for GitLab's subcontractor and services partner bench. In this role, you will help scale high-quality Professional Services delivery by building the systems, governance, and partner motions that allow external delivery capacity to work effectively alongside GitLab teams. This role sits at the center of Professional Services and works closely with Ecosystems, Sales, Enablement, Finance, Legal, Procurement, IT, Security, and regional delivery management to create a consistent, global approach to subcontractor partner onboarding, readiness, compliance, and performance. You will be tasked with improving how GitLab identifies, enables, governs, and grows subcontractor partners so they can support customer engagements with quality and consistency. In your first year, you will help mature the subcontractor partner model by strengthening lifecycle processes, improving visibility into partner skills and capacity, and creating better alignment between Professional Services delivery needs and broader partner strategy. This is a strong fit for someone who enjoys solving operational complexity, building scalable programs, and working across many teams to improve delivery outcomes for customers and internal stakeholders. - Building and improving a global subcontractor partner operating model that supports onboarding, readiness, delivery management, and offboarding - Partnering across Professional Services, Ecosystems, Legal, Finance, Procurement, and regional delivery teams to streamline contracting, access, governance, and partner performance management What you’ll do - Own the subcontractor partner operating model for Professional Services, including partner company onboarding, partner consultant lifecycle management, access coordination, readiness tracking, shadow and reverse-shadow progression, status management, and offboarding. - Develop and execute a global strategy for subcontractor and services partners that expands delivery capacity while maintaining quality, customer satisfaction, and alignment with regional business needs, using capacity, quality, and customer satisfaction metrics to guide decisions. - Serve as the primary relationship manager for strategic subcontractor and services partners, building strong partnerships with partner principals and delivery managers. - Partner with Professional Services, Delivery, project management, and regional leadership to identify staffing needs, evaluate partner resources, and maintain visibility into partner inventory, skills, capacity, rate administration, and specialty coverage to improve staffing match rates and reduce delivery coverage gaps. - Manage or materially support contract and engagement workflows, including contract initiation, work authorization governance, purchase order coordination, invoice routing, retainer administration, renewals, and related cross-functional follow-through. - Improve partner delivery readiness by shaping onboarding guidance, enablement expectations, shadowing requirements, certification alignment, and consistent delivery standards. - Establish and maintain partner performance scorecards, feedback loops, and compliance mechanisms to assess partner quality, readiness, utilization, customer feedback, and future fit. - Drive process improvement and automation across partner onboarding, engagement workflows, rules of engagement, and systems used to manage subcontractor operations across regions to

Own the subcontractor partner operating model for Professional Services, including partner company onboarding, partner consultant lifecycle management, access coordination, readiness tracking, shadow and reverse-shadow progression, status management, and offboarding. Develop and execute a global strategy for subcontractor and services partners that expands delivery capacity while maintaining quality, customer satisfaction, and alignment with regional business needs, using capacity, quality, and customer satisfaction metrics to guide decisions. Serve as the primary relationship manager for strategic subcontractor and services partners, building strong partnerships with partner principals and delivery managers. Partner with Professional Services, Delivery, project management, and regional leadership to identify staffing needs, evaluate partner resources, and maintain visibility into partner inventory, skills, capacity, rate administration, and specialty coverage to improve staffing match rates and reduce delivery coverage gaps. Manage or materially support contract and engagement workflows, including contract initiation, work authorization governance, purchase order coordination, invoice routing, retainer administration, renewals, and related cross-functional follow-through. Improve partner delivery readiness by shaping onboarding guidance, enablement expectations, shadowing requirements, certification alignment, and consistent delivery standards. Establish and maintain partner performance scorecards, feedback loops, and compliance mechanisms to assess partner quality, readiness, utilization, customer feedback, and future fit. Drive process improvement and automation across partner onboarding, engagement workflows, rules of engagement, and systems used to manage subcontractor operations across regions.