Director of Recruiting, Engineering & IT, Bangalore India
GitLab · Posted Oct 15
DevSecOps platform, software version control, CI/CD pipeline, and AI-assisted development services
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About the role
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. The Talent Acquisition team helps GitLab build the teams needed to co-create the future of software development, working asynchronously across time zones and partnering with Engineering, IT, People Business Partners, Compensation, and Finance. This role leads GitLab's India-based recruiting efforts for Engineering and IT while shaping technical hiring across the broader Asia-Pacific region, leading recruiting managers, setting regional talent strategy, and owning senior and executive-level searches.
What you will do
- Lead and develop 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 recruiting management capability through coaching, clear expectations, structured operating cadences, and development plans for managers and individual contributors.
- Own GitLab’s most senior and executive-level technical searches in the region, including Vice President and C-suite-adjacent leadership roles.
- 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.
- Advise senior Engineering and IT leaders on organization design, workforce planning, compensation considerations, talent availability, and hiring priorities.
- Define regional hiring metrics and reporting, surface risks and bottlenecks to senior leaders, and recommend practical solutions that support predictable, high-quality hiring.
- Partner with People Business Partners, Compensation, Finance, and other recruiting leaders on headcount strategy, process improvements, tooling decisions, and company-wide talent priorities.
- 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.
Skills used in this role
What the employer is looking for
- Experience leading recruiting in high-growth technology companies, including enterprise-scale or similarly complex hiring environments.
- Experience managing recruiting managers or leading a multi-layered recruiting organization with accountability for team performance and development.
- Deep experience recruiting Engineering and IT talent, from individual contributor roles through senior and executive leadership positions.
- A record of sourcing, engaging, and closing passive candidates for senior technical and leadership roles in competitive markets.
- Deep knowledge of India’s technology talent market and experience setting hiring strategy across India and the broader Asia-Pacific region.
- Experience leading distributed teams and large, multi-portfolio hiring plans while advising senior leaders through growth and organizational change.
- Clear written and verbal communication when advising senior leaders on recruiting strategy and priorities.
- A data-informed approach to recruiting, including experience with hiring metrics, dashboards, market intelligence, applicant tracking systems, LinkedIn Recruiter, and sourcing tools. Experience with Greenhouse is helpful.
Benefits and support
- 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
About GitLab
GitLab is an intelligent orchestration platform for DevSecOps, delivered as a single application that empowers development, security, and operations teams to ship software faster and more securely. Operating as one of the world's largest all-remote companies, GitLab integrates the entire software lifecycle from planning and source code management to CI/CD and automated security testing. Millions of users and thousands of organizations globally rely on GitLab to scale their development workflows and adopt agentic AI engineering.
- Industry
- Software Development
- Company size
- 2375 employees
- Founded
- 2011
- Location
- San Francisco, California, USA
- Funding stage
- Public Company
Funding
Public Company · $435M raised
- 2022-09-16Post IPOUndisclosed
- 2019-09-17Series E$268M
- 2018-09-19Series D$100M
- 2017-10-10Series C$20M
- 2016-03-15Series B$4M
Leadership
Chief Executive Officer
Chief Financial Officer
Chief Technology Officer
Chief Product and Marketing Officer
Chief Business and Legal Officer
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