Principal Product Manager, Orbit

Responsibilities

• Define Orbit's multi-year vision and roadmap across graph models and ontology, ingestion and indexing, query and retrieval, developer and agent interfaces, governance, and enterprise readiness. Shape how Orbit works across GitLab.com, Self-Managed, Dedicated, GitLab Duo Agent Platform, MCP-based external agents, APIs,…
• Turn complex platform opportunities into customer problems, measurable outcomes, and investment decisions. Use evidence to decide where to invest, iterate, partner, or stop.
• Partner with Engineering and
• Design on architecture and implementation tradeoffs across graph data models, indexing, query systems, application programming interfaces (APIs), Model Context Protocol (MCP), authorization, and scale.
• Use AI tools such as Claude Code and GitLab to investigate problems, explore code and data, prototype concepts, and create or review merge requests when that's the fastest way to learn.
• Lead discovery with developers, engineering leaders, platform teams, security teams, and technical executives to validate needs around dependencies, ownership, change impact, vulnerability exposure, pipeline health, and software delivery risk.
• Build repeatable feedback into roadmap decisions and help customers understand the value of connected graph context over disconnected searches or API calls.
• Define target customers, priority use cases, differentiated value, and the path to product-market fit.
• Partner with Product Marketing, Sales, Solutions Engineering, Customer Success, Pricing, and Finance on positioning, packaging, pricing, launch, adoption, and expansion.
• Develop business cases and track adoption, retention, usage, customer value, and revenue outcomes.

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