Product Manager, AI Editor Extensions

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An overview of this role

As a Product Manager for AI in Editor Extensions at GitLab, you will be at the forefront of revolutionizing the developer experience through AI-powered tools integrated directly into the coding environment. You'll lead the strategy and execution for features within various IDEs, enabling developers to leverage AI for code suggestions, chat assistance, code reviews, and vulnerability resolution within their daily workflows.

In this role, you'll collaborate with a globally distributed engineering team to deliver AI solutions that seamlessly integrate into the developer's workflow across multiple editor platforms. Your decisions will directly impact how developers interact with AI while coding, making their experience more efficient and productive.

This is an exciting opportunity to shape the future of AI-assisted development in a company that is pioneering the integration of AI into the DevSecOps platform. You'll be working on cutting-edge technology that developers use daily, collaborating with other Product Managers across the AI space to drive product direction in an all-remote environment that values results, iteration, and collaboration.

What You'll Do

• Lead strategy and development of AI features in editor extensions across multiple IDE platforms
• Prioritize high-impact features and monitor usage metrics to guide investment decisions
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to develop ambitious yet attainable product plans
• Maintain and communicate a clear one-year roadmap for AI-powered developer tooling
• Gather insights from customers and stakeholders to identify AI opportunities in development workflows
• Ensure engineering requirements are clear and milestone priorities are ready for development
• Stay current on competitive landscape for AI coding assistants and identify opportunities to innovate

What You'll Bring

• Experience in product management with knowledge of AI coding assistants, models, and context management
• Strong technical understanding of software development and the SDLC
• General developer tooling experience with passion for design and usability
• Highly independent approach with excellent communication skills at all levels
• Comfort with all-remote work and alignment with GitLab's values
• Data-driven decision making with strong bias for action
• Experience with IDE/editor tooling is a plus (JetBrains, VS Code, Visual Studio, Eclipse)
• Background as a software engineer is a plus
• Experience in enterprise organizations and B2B customer engagement is beneficial

About the team

The Editor Extensions team works on bringing GitLab's powerful features directly into developers' preferred coding environments. Together, we collaborate through GitLab's issue tracking and merge request workflow, continuously soliciting feedback from users to improve our extensions.

The team builds extensions in various technologies including TypeScript, Lua, Kotlin, and C#, creating solutions that work consistently across different editor platforms while maintaining high performance and reliability standards.

By joining this team, you'll have the opportunity to work on emerging AI technology that will directly impact developers' daily workflows, helping them be more productive and effective in their coding activities.

How GitLab will support you

• Benefits to support your health, finances, and well-being
• All remote, asynchro