Director, Analytics Engineering

The posting, as GitLab wrote it

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An overview of this role

As Director, Analytics Engineering, you'll lead a team of 8 and report to the VP of Data & Insights. You set direction across the data organization, stay close enough to the work to guide technical decisions credibly, and partner with Data Engineering, Data Science, IT, and business leaders.
You will have three mandates:

• Build trusted, AI-ready self-service. Deliver a semantic model that answers business questions correctly, with the telemetry, evals, and model flexibility to prove it and keep costs in check.
• Set the strategy for how GitLab accesses data. Own the data models, BI tools, and AI access patterns (Claude, MCP servers, Slack agents) that put trusted data in everyone's hands.
• Build data applications the whole company relies on. Ship production-grade apps that combine trusted data, APIs, and AI to answer questions dashboards can't.

What you'll do

• Build and own a trusted semantic model, with governed metrics and business definitions, that answers business questions consistently across every tool
• Build evals and ground-truth datasets that measure answer quality, and use them to drive improvements and catch regressions
• Instrument telemetry to see who uses the semantic model and AI tools, what they ask, and where they get stuck
• Build a model-selection harness so GitLab can route work across LLMs and stay flexible on cost and quality
• Own data modeling and curated datasets for self-service, with the ownership, data contracts, testing, and documentation that make them AI-ready
• Define the AI data access strategy: when to use BI, Claude, MCP servers, or

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• Team Member Resource Groups
• Equity Compensation & Employee Stock Purchase Plan
• Growth and Development Fund
• Parental Leave

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