Senior Talent Brand Manager

Jackalope Digital LLC; Northern (KY); Hybrid; USD 117,000 - 194,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Benefits package

Flexible PTO

Equity & stock plan

Growth fund

Parental leave

ERGs

Job summary

GitLab seeks a Senior Talent Brand Manager to shape how current and prospective teammates understand what it means to work here. You will drive the employer value proposition through recruitment marketing, editorial direction, and integrated campaigns across the candidate journey.

You'll leverage data insights, storytelling, and cross-functional influence to create authentic, inclusive candidate experiences and scalable content systems across channels.

Qualifications

• Significant experience in talent brand or recruitment marketing.
• Experience leading brand/recruitment strategies across audiences/regions.
• Strong writing, editing, and editorial judgment across channels.

Responsibilities

• Lead talent brand strategy translating EVP into messaging.
• Design campaigns, content systems, and recruiter resources end-to-end.
• Set editorial direction with authentic, inclusive stories.
• Advise on audience strategy to support hiring priorities and pipelines.
• Improve candidate journey with clear, consistent information.
• Use data and trends to set priorities and show impact.

Skills

Talent brand

Recruitment marketing

Cross-functional influence

Storytelling

Data analytics

Stakeholder mgmt

Job description

GitLab is the intelligent orchestration platform for DevSecOps. GitLab enables organizations to increase developer productivity, improve operational efficiency, reduce security and compliance risk, and accelerate digital transformation. More than 50 million registered users and more than 50% of the Fortune 100 trust GitLab to ship better, more secure software faster.

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 valuesand 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.

*Fortune 500® is a registered trademark of Fortune Media IP Limited, used under license. Claim based on GitLab data. Fortune 100 refers to the top 20% ranked companies in the 2025 Fortune 500 list, published in June 2025. Fortune and Fortune Media IP Limited are not affiliated with, and do not endorse products or services of GitLab.

An overview of this role

As a Senior Talent Brand Manager, you'll shape how current and prospective team members understand what it means to work at GitLab. You'll bring our employer value proposition to life through talent brand strategy, recruitment marketing, and integrated campaigns across the candidate journey. You'll combine editorial judgment, performance data, cross-functional influence, and artificial intelligence tools to create clear, inclusive, and authentic candidate experiences.

What You’ll Do

• Lead GitLab's talent brand strategy, translating our employer value proposition and company direction into clear, differentiated candidate messaging.
• Design integrated campaigns and build scalable content systems, recruiter resources, reporting, event support, and campaign operations across careers content, social media, employer review platforms, talent communities, events, and recruiter channels, using technology and artificial intelligence tools.
• Set editorial direction and align cross-functional partners and contributors on authentic stories featuring team members, leaders, teams, culture, values, career growth, and the impact of working at GitLab, ensuring accurate, inclusive, culturally relevant, and consistent talent brand work.
• Advise Talent Acquisition and business leaders on audience strategy and campaigns that support hiring priorities, candidate pipelines, and conversion.
• Improve candidate journey touchpoints so candidates receive transparent, consistent, and relevant information throughout the hiring process.
• Use performance data, audience insights, candidate feedback, and talent market and channel trends to set priorities, evaluate results, recommend new approaches, and communicate impact.

What You’ll Bring

• Significant experience in talent brand, employer brand, or recruitment marketing.
• Experience developing and leading brand or recruitment marketing strategies across multiple audiences, regions, or hiring priorities.
• Strong storytelling, writing, editing, and editorial judgment across multiple channels.
• Experience leading complex campaigns with multiple stakeholders, deadlines, budgets, or external partners.
• Strong analytical judgment and experience using data, audience insights, feedback, and research to improve outcomes.
• Ability to influence senior stakeholders, create structure from ambiguity, and move between strategy and execution in an asynchronous environment.

About the team

The Talent Brand team sits within GitLab's People Group and partners with Talent Acquisition, Marketing, Corporate Communications, Social Media, Diversity, Inclusion & Belonging, and leaders across GitLab. In this role, you'll help set the team's direction, strengthen GitLab's employer narrative and regional presence, support hiring priorities, improve candidate experiences, and use data to extend the impact of a small, focused team.

The base salary range for this role’s listed level is currently for residents of theUnited 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

$115,200 — $194,400 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.

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.