What you’ll do
Lead and develop the recruiting team supporting Sales across the Americas, using coaching, feedback, and clear development plans to build capability and accountability.
Design recruiting strategies, structured interviews, and hiring frameworks that scale across the AMER market.
Partner with Sales leaders to define talent needs, share market insights across the United States, Canada, and Latin America, and guide hiring decisions and trade-offs.
Plan recruiting capacity against headcount and quota-capacity goals, balancing hiring speed, quality, and time to ramp.
Embed diversity, equity, and inclusion into recruiting processes and hiring decisions.
Manage a personal requisition load when needed, focusing on senior and specialized roles such as front-line managers, strategic account leaders, and technical sales talent.
Use recruiting data to track team performance, identify bottlenecks, and improve hiring strategies across the Sales portfolio.
Collaborate with Sales leadership, Sales Operations, Enablement, People Business Partners, Compensation, and Finance on workforce planning and consistent candidate and stakeholder experiences.
What you’ll bring
Experience developing recruiting teams for Sales or go-to-market organizations, delivering hiring outcomes in a scaling business across the United States, Canada, and Latin America.
Ability to build trust with senior Sales leaders while staying hands-on with recruiting.
Experience building scalable recruiting processes across different Sales roles and segments.
Ability to use recruiting data to guide strategy, identify gaps, and explain outcomes to stakeholders.
Experience sourcing, engaging, and closing passive candidates for quota-carrying, specialized, and senior Sales roles, including conversations about variable compensation and on-target earnings.
Ability to navigate ambiguity, solve problems quickly, and maintain a thoughtful candidate experience.
A collaborative leadership approach grounded in self-awareness, openness to feedback, and investment in team growth, with experience working remotely across time zones.
A demonstrated commitment to inclusive hiring and equitable recruiting practices. Relevant experience may come from a range of professional backgrounds and transferable skills.
About the team
Our Sales Recruiting team is a globally distributed group of recruiters and talent acquisition professionals who partner with Sales leaders around the world. We work remote-first and asynchronously, with a focus on clear processes, honest conversations with candidates, and hiring decisions grounded in data. The team moves quickly, shares what works, and values transparency, ownership, and learning from each other while maintaining a high bar for hiring quality and candidate experience.
The base salary range for this role’s listed level is currently for residents of the United States only. This range is intended to reflect the role's base salary rate in locations throughout the US. Grade level and salary ranges are determined through interviews and a review of education, experience, knowledge, skills, abilities of the applicant, equity with other team members, alignment with market data, and geographic location. The base salary range does not include any bonuses, equity, or benefits. See more information on our benefits and equity. Sales roles are also eligible for incentive pay targeted at up to 100% of the offered base salary.
United States Salary Range
$104,800—$176,400 USD
How GitLab Supports Full-Time Employees
Benefits to support your health, finances, and well-being
Flexible Paid Time Off
Team Member Resource Groups
Equity Compensation & Employee Stock Purchase Plan
Growth and Development Fund
Parental Leave
Please note that we welcome interest from candidates with varying levels of experience; many successful candidates do not meet every single requirement. Additionally, studies have shown that people from underrepresented groups are less likely to apply to a job unless they meet every single qualification. If you're excited about this role, please apply and allow our recruiters to assess your application.
Country Hiring Guidelines: GitLab hires new team members in countries around the world. All of our roles are remote, however some roles may carry specific location-based eligibility requirements. Our Talent Acquisition team can help answer any questions about location after starting the recruiting process.
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GitLab is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and is an affirmative action employer. GitLab’s policies and practices relating to recruitment, employment, career development and advancement, promotion, and retirement are based solely on merit, regardless of race, color, religion, ancestry, sex (including pregnancy, lactation, sexual orientation, gender identity, or gender expression), national origin, age, citizenship, marital status, mental or physical disability, genetic information (including family medical history), discharge status from the military, protected veteran status (which includes disabled veterans, recently separated veterans, active duty wartime or campaign badge veterans, and Armed Forces service medal veterans), or any other basis protected by law. GitLab will not tolerate discrimination or harassment based on any of these characteristics. See also GitLab’s EEO Policy and EEO is the Law. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please let us know during the recruiting process.
