Senior Manager, Security Compliance

An overview of this role

As a Senior Manager, Security Compliance at GitLab, you'll lead and mature our security compliance function while helping the company meet the needs of customers, auditors, and regulators across a growing set of security and compliance requirements. Reporting to the VP of Security Assurance, you'll bring deep expertise in security frameworks, risk-based thinking, and team leadership to guide our certification strategy and strengthen how we manage compliance across the business.

In this role, you'll work across Security, Legal, IT, Product, and Engineering to evolve a compliance program that supports both strong security outcomes and business growth. You'll help shape a roadmap that keeps pace with emerging regulations and frameworks, while also improving how the team works through automation, artificial intelligence, and scalable processes. This role is a strong fit for someone who can balance strategic leadership with operational excellence and who sees compliance as an important customer trust and sales enabler.

Some examples of our projects:

• Leading and expanding GitLab's security certification portfolio across commercial, public sector, and industry-specific frameworks while improving the way control testing and assurance activities are performed
• Driving automation and AI-enabled improvements for risk and compliance workflows so the team can spend less time on manual work and more time on high-value risk analysis and program maturity

What you'll do

• Lead and mentor a team focused on security compliance, providing direction, support, and clear priorities while building a high-performing function.
• Oversee and expand GitLab's certification portfolio across frameworks such as ISO 27001/17/18, ISO 42001, Service Organization Control 2 (SOC 2), Payment Card Industry (PCI), TiSAX, Cyber Essentials, and Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program (FedRAMP).
• Partner with cross-functional stakeholders in IT, Security, Legal, Product, and Engineering to integrate governance, risk, and compliance requirements into business processes and technical systems.
• Drive automation within the function by using scripting, coding, and AI-enabled approaches to improve governance, risk, and compliance workflows, including compliance-as-code and policy-as-code practices.
• Monitor regulatory changes, emerging frameworks, and industry trends, and use those insights to help shape the team's roadmap and prepare the business for new requirements.
• Manage relationships with third-party auditors, assessors, and consultants during activities such as external audits, certification reviews, and penetration tests.
• Strengthen the team's security metrics and reporting practices, including preparing and facilitating regular business reviews and giving leadership clear visibility into progress and risk.
• Serve as a subject matter expert and thought partner by delivering guidance, training, and security-focused content for internal teams, customers, and senior stakeholders, while helping strengthen GitLab's voice in the broader security market.

What you'll bring

• Extensive experience in security compliance, audit, or related governance, risk, and compliance work, including experience supporting external audits.
• Deep knowledge of security and compliance frameworks such as SOC 2, ISO 27001, FedRAMP, and National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), with public sector or FedRAMP experience preferred.
• Experience leading teams and developing people, with the ability to set direction, manage priorities, and build strong partnerships across a distributed organization.
• Strong understanding of cloud security, software as a service (SaaS) security models, and DevSecOps practices, with the ability to apply that knowledge in a fast-moving technology environment.
• A risk-based mindset that goes beyond checklist compliance and focuses on meaningful control design, testing, and continuous improvement.
• Comfort using automation, scripting, or AI-enabled approaches to reduce manual work and improve the scale and efficiency of compliance programs.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to explain complex technical and regulatory topics clearly to auditors, customers, executives, and cross-functional partners.
• Relevant certifications such as Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP), Certified Information Security Manager (CISM), Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA), or similar credentials are highly desirable.

About the team

The Security Assurance organization helps GitLab build and maintain trust by strengthening how we approach security, compliance, and assurance across the company. Within that group, the security compliance function works at the intersection of customer trust, regulatory readiness, operational rigor, and business growth. The team partners broadly across GitLab to help ensure our controls, certifications, and assurance activities support both secure operations and the needs of a global business.