Is the Senior Executive Business Administrator, CPO position at GitLab fully remote?

Yes, this Senior Executive Business Administrator, CPO position at GitLab is a remote position. The role is available for candidates in Canada.

Is this a full-time or part-time Senior Executive Business Administrator, CPO role?

This is a full-time Senior Executive Business Administrator, CPO position at GitLab.

What are the main requirements for the Senior Executive Business Administrator, CPO role?

Key requirements include: Manage complex calendars, Orchestrate end-to-end travel and events, Turn high-level ideas and meeting topics into clear agendas, materials, and follow-through, and more.

What benefits does GitLab offer for this position?

GitLab offers the following benefits: 401k Matching, Company Retreats, Conference Budget, Coworking Space, Employee Discounts, Equity, Flexible Hours, Gym Membership.

Senior Executive Business Administrator, CPO at GitLab

Canada

GitLab is an open-core software company that develops the most comprehensive <a href="https://about.gitlab.com/solutions/devops-platform">AI-powered DevSecOps Platform</a>, used by more than 100,000 organizations. Our <a href="https://about.gitlab.com/company/mission">mission</a> is to enable everyone to contribute to and co-create the software that powers our world. When everyone can contribute, consumers become contributors, significantly accelerating human progress. Our platform unites teams and organizations, breaking down barriers and redefining what's possible in software development. Thanks to products like <a href="https://about.gitlab.com/gitlab-duo/">Duo Enterprise</a> and <a href="https://about.gitlab.com/blog/gitlab-duo-agent-platform-what-is-next-for-intelligent-devsecops/">Duo Agent Platform</a>, customers get AI benefits at every stage of the SDLC. 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 <a href="https://handbook.gitlab.com/handbook/values/">values</a> and continuous knowledge exchange, enabling our team members to reach their full potential while collaborating with industry leaders to solve complex problems. <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OuZIb5zszQI">Co-create the future with us</a> as we build technology that transforms how the world develops software.<h4>An overview of this role</h4> As a Senior Executive Business Administrator, you’ll be a trusted partner to GitLab’s Chief People Officer, ensuring their time, information, and priorities are aligned to what matters most for GitLab’s People Group outcomes. You’ll manage complex calendars, orchestrate end-to-end travel and events, and turn high-level ideas and meeting topics into clear agendas, materials, and follow-through so the executive and their teams can stay focused on impact. You’ll use tools like Google Workspace, Slack, Zoom, Navan, GitLab, and AI solutions every day to streamline workflows, anticipate needs, and keep work moving smoothly across the People Group, and their cross-functional partners in a fast-paced, public-company environment. You’ll collaborate closely with other Executive Business Administrators, People Operations, IT, and leaders across GitLab to maintain clear communication, track deliverables across organizational boundaries, and support hiring and onboarding activities. In your first year, you’ll be expected to build strong, trust-based relationships, bring structure and calm to ambiguity, proactively flag risks and opportunities, and contribute to the broader EBA community through shared practices and coverage. What You’ll Do <ul> <li>Support and work closely with GitLab’s Chief People Officer by anticipating needs, owning day-to-day operations, and ensuring priorities are executed smoothly.</li> <li>Manage complex calendars by vetting, prioritizing, and recommending meetings in line with GitLab meeting norms, while monitoring and resolving conflicts in advance.</li> <li>Transform high-level meeting descriptions and content links into clear, comprehensive agendas and briefing materials to ensure CPO preparedness for all internal and external meetings.</li> <li>Maintain frequent communication and structured check-ins with the CPO, proactively flagging items that need attention and tracking expectations and deliverables from functional peers.</li> <li>Monitor and maintain visibility into team progress by overseeing updates to agendas, trackers, and documentation, and supporting departmental reporting through formatted materials, reminders, and walkthroughs.</li> <li>Use AI tools extensively to automate routine tasks, synthesize information from multiple sources, and improve the quality and speed of decision support for the CPO.</li> <li>Coordinate end-to-end travel logistics, including transportation, accommodations, documentation, and security needs, while processing expenses and reimbursements in a timely, accurate manner.</li> <li>Partner with People Operations, IT, and other cross-functional partners to resolve logistical needs, support full-cycle recruiting and onboarding, and plan and execute virtual and in-person events, off-sites, and team activities.</li> <li>Contribute to the broader Executive Business Administrator community by building strong cross-functional relationships, sharing best practices, providing coverage for other EBAs, and participating in team initiatives.</li> </ul> What You’ll Bring <ul> <li>Experience supporting senior executives in complex, fast-paced environments, ideally including C-level leadership in People / HR organizations.</li> <li>Background managing executive calendars, travel, and expenses across time zones, with the ability to anticipate needs and manage competing priorities with minimal direction.</li> <li>Proficiency with Google Workspace, Zoom, Slack, Navan (or similar expense platforms), and comfort using AI tools to automate tasks and synthesize information.</li> <li>Experience coordinating cross-functional work, ensuring deliverables are tracked across teams, and compiling information from multiple sources for executive decision-making.</li> <li>Skill in end-to-end event and meeting coordination, including agendas, materials, logistics, vendor communication, and tracking action items.</li> <li>Experience supporting recruiting activities and onboarding, including scheduling interviews, coordinating with hiring teams, and facilitating new hire setup.</li> <li>Clear, concise written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to interact autonomously with internal and external partners while maintaining strict confidentiality.</li> <li>Approach that is proactive, organized, and collaborative, with the ability to work independently in a remote, dynamic environment and openness to varied backgrounds and transferable skills</li> </ul> About the team The Senior Executive Business Administrator joins GitLab’s global Executive Business Administrator team, a distributed group that partners closely with members of the executive group and their direct reports to keep priorities, communication, and logistics running smoothly. The team supports executives across time zones through asynchronous collaboration, shared workflows, and consistent meeting norms, with a focus on calendar strategy, meeting preparation, departmental reporting, travel, and key cross-functional initiatives. You’ll work most closely with the Chief People Officer and other EBAs to ensure visibility into priorities, help connect information across People Group and other functions, and contribute to team-wide projects that improve how EBAs support GitLab’s leadership.<h4>How GitLab will support you</h4> <ul> <li><a href="https://about.gitlab.com/handbook/total-rewards/benefits/general-and-entity-benefits/">Benefits to support your health, finances, and well-being</a></li> <li><a href="https://handbook.gitlab.com/handbook/people-group/paid-time-off/">Flexible Paid Time Off</a> </li> <li><a href="https://about.gitlab.com/company/culture/inclusion/erg-guide/#:~:text=Definition%20of%20the%20TMRG%20%2D%20Team%20Member%20Resource%20Groups,-TMRGs%20are%20voluntary&text=The%20purpose%20for%20this%20type,developing%20the%20sense%20of%20belonging.">Team Member Resource Groups</a></li> <li><a href="https://handbook.gitlab.com/handbook/total-rewards/stock-options/">Equity Compensation & Employee Stock Purchase Plan</a></li> <li><a href="https://handbook.gitlab.com/handbook/people-group/learning-and-development/growth-and-development/">Growth and Development Fund</a></li> <li><a href="https://about.gitlab.com/handbook/total-rewards/benefits/general-and-entity-benefits/#parental-leave">Parental leave</a> </li> <li><a href="https://handbook.gitlab.com/handbook/finance/expenses/#equipment">Home office</a> support</li> </ul> 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 <a href="https://about.gitlab.com/company/culture/inclusion/#examples-of-select-underrepresented-groups">underrepresented groups</a> 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. Privacy Policy: Please review our <a href="https://handbook.gitlab.com/handbook/hiring/candidate-faq/recruitment-privacy-policy/" target="_blank">Recruitment Privacy Policy.</a> Your privacy is important to us. 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 <a href="https://about.gitlab.com/handbook/people-policies/inc-usa/#equal-employment-opportunity-policy" target="_blank">GitLab’s EEO Policy</a> and <a href="https://about.gitlab.com/handbook/labor-and-employment-notices/#eeoc-us-equal-employment-opportunity-commission-notices" target="_blank">EEO is the Law</a>. If you have a disability or special need that requires <a href="https://about.gitlab.com/handbook/people-policies/inc-usa/#reasonable-accommodation" target="_blank">accommodation</a>, please let us know during the <a href="https://about.gitlab.com/handbook/hiring/interviewing/#adjustments-to-our-interview-process" target="_blank">recruiting process</a>.

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Senior Executive Business Administrator, CPO

GitLab(View Full Profile)

Full Time

$120,000 - $180,000*

9 months ago

Canada

Australia

Remote readiness · 46/100

Human Resources

Senior

Google Workspace

Slack

Zoom

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Job Description

GitLab is an open-core software company that develops the most comprehensive AI-powered DevSecOps Platform, used by more than 100,000 organizations. Our mission is to enable everyone to contribute to and co-create the software that powers our world. When everyone can contribute, consumers become contributors, significantly accelerating human progress. Our platform unites teams and organizations, breaking down barriers and redefining what's possible in software development. Thanks to products like Duo Enterprise and Duo Agent Platform, customers get AI benefits at every stage of the SDLC.

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.

An overview of this role

As a Senior Executive Business Administrator, you’ll be a trusted partner to GitLab’s Chief People Officer, ensuring their time, information, and priorities are aligned to what matters most for GitLab’s People Group outcomes. You’ll manage complex calendars, orchestrate end-to-end travel and events, and turn high-level ideas and meeting topics into clear agendas, materials, and follow-through so the executive and their teams can stay focused on impact. You’ll use tools like Google Workspace, Slack, Zoom, Navan, GitLab, and AI solutions every day to streamline workflows, anticipate needs, and keep work moving smoothly across the People Group, and their cross-functional partners in a fast-paced, public-company environment.

You’ll collaborate closely with other Executive Business Administrators, People Operations, IT, and leaders across GitLab to maintain clear communication, track deliverables across organizational boundaries, and support hiring and onboarding activities. In your first year, you’ll be expected to build strong, trust-based relationships, bring structure and calm to ambiguity, proactively flag risks and opportunities, and contribute to the broader EBA community through shared practices and coverage.

What You’ll Do

Support and work closely with GitLab’s Chief People Officer by anticipating needs, owning day-to-day operations, and ensuring priorities are executed smoothly.
Manage complex calendars by vetting, prioritizing, and recommending meetings in line with GitLab meeting norms, while monitoring and resolving conflicts in advance.
Transform high-level meeting descriptions and content links into clear, comprehensive agendas and briefing materials to ensure CPO preparedness for all internal and external meetings.
Maintain frequent communication and structured check-ins with the CPO, proactively flagging items that need attention and tracking expectations and deliverables from functional peers.
Monitor and maintain visibility into team progress by overseeing updates to agendas, trackers, and documentation, and supporting departmental reporting through formatted materials, reminders, and walkthroughs.
Use AI tools extensively to automate routine tasks, synthesize information from multiple sources, and improve the quality and speed of decision support for the CPO.
Coordinate end-to-end travel logistics, including transportation, accommodations, documentation, and security needs, while processing expenses and reimbursements in a timely, accurate manner.
Partner with People Operations, IT, and other cross-functional partners to resolve logistical needs, support full-cycle recruiting and onboarding, and plan and execute virtual and in-person events, off-sites, and team activities.
Contribute to the broader Executive Business Administrator community by building strong cross-functional relationships, sharing best practices, providing coverage for other EBAs, and participating in team initiatives.

What You’ll Bring

Experience supporting senior executives in complex, fast-paced environments, ideally including C-level leadership in People / HR organizations.
Background managing executive calendars, travel, and expenses across time zones, with the ability to anticipate needs and manage competing priorities with minimal direction.
Proficiency with Google Workspace, Zoom, Slack, Navan (or similar expense platforms), and comfort using AI tools to automate tasks and synthesize information.
Experience coordinating cross-functional work, ensuring deliverables are tracked across teams, and compiling information from multiple sources for executive decision-making.
Skill in end-to-end event and meeting coordination, including agendas, materials, logistics, vendor communication, and tracking action items.
Experience supporting recruiting activities and onboarding, including scheduling interviews, coordinating with hiring teams, and facilitating new hire setup.
Clear, concise written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to interact autonomously with internal and external partners while maintaining strict confidentiality.
Approach that is proactive, organized, and collaborative, with the ability to work independently in a remote, dynamic environment and openness to varied backgrounds and transferable skills

About the team

The Senior Executive Business Administrator joins GitLab’s global Executive Business Administrator team, a distributed group that partners closely with members of the executive group and their direct reports to keep priorities, communication, and logistics running smoothly. The team supports executives across time zones through asynchronous collaboration, shared workflows, and consistent meeting norms, with a focus on calendar strategy, meeting preparation, departmental reporting, travel, and key cross-functional initiatives. You’ll work most closely with the Chief People Officer and other EBAs to ensure visibility into priorities, help connect information across People Group and other functions, and contribute to team-wide projects that improve how EBAs support GitLab’s leadership.

How GitLab will support you

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.

Privacy Policy: Please review our Recruitment Privacy Policy. Your privacy is important to us.

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.

Requirements

Manage complex calendars
Orchestrate end-to-end travel and events
Turn high-level ideas and meeting topics into clear agendas, materials, and follow-through
Use tools like Google Workspace, Slack, Zoom, Navan, GitLab, and AI solutions every day
Collaborate closely with other Executive Business Administrators, People Operations, IT, and leaders across GitLab

Benefits

401k Matching
Company Retreats
Conference Budget
Coworking Space
Employee Discounts
Equity
Flexible Hours
Gym Membership

Skills

Google Workspace

Slack

Zoom

Navan

Gitlab

AI solutions

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