Senior Executive Business Partner

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.

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An overview of this role

As Senior Executive Business Partner, you'll help GitLab's Chief Information Officer stay focused on the work that matters most by creating structure, clarity, and momentum across a fast-moving organization. This role is central to keeping priorities visible, decisions well-supported, and operations running smoothly across meetings, travel, recruiting, reporting, and cross-functional coordination. You will work across tools like Google Workspace, Slack, Navan, Zoom, GitLab, and AI tools to manage competing demands, anticipate needs before they become urgent, and support a senior leader in a dynamic public company environment.

This role goes beyond traditional executive support. You will help run the broader Office of the CIO by supporting leadership cadences, anticipating inbound needs, surfacing recommendations instead of only questions, and creating the conditions for better decisions and stronger follow-through across the organization.

You will work across tools like Google Workspace, Slack, Navan, Zoom, GitLab, and AI tools to manage competing demands, anticipate needs before they become urgent, and support a senior leader in a dynamic public company environment. Success in this role requires sound judgment, comfort with ambiguity, quick responsiveness, and a highly proactive approach to problem-solving.

This is a high-trust role for someone who is organized, resourceful, calm under pressure, and able to build an authentic partnership with the CIO and key stakeholders across the function.

What you’ll do

Support the Chief Information Officer with day-to-day administrative and operational needs across scheduling, communications, planning, and execution.

Manage complex calendars by vetting requests, prioritizing meetings, recommending tradeoffs, and aligning schedules with GitLab meeting norms and practices.

Proactively manage inbound requests to the CIO by framing issues, offering recommendations, and helping drive timely decisions instead of simply escalating questions.

Own and strengthen leadership cadences across the broader Office of the CIO, including staff meetings, team meetings, planning rhythms, and other recurring operating mechanisms.

Prepare detailed agendas, briefing materials, and meeting content far enough in advance to support thoughtful review and meaningful discussion in internal and external meetings.

Track follow-ups, action items, deliverables, and updates across direct reports and functional peers, and actively remind the CIO when action or acknowledgment is needed.

Help the CIO maintain strong visibility into team progress, emerging