Director, Business Analytics & Insights

An overview of this role

You'll serve as the senior analytics partner to GitLab's finance and executive teams, shaping how data informs our most important strategic decisions. Today, insights live in many places and leaders often have to stitch together views of performance, markets, and risk on their own. You'll change this by building clear, executive-ready analytics that connect operational data to business outcomes and long-term strategy. Your focus will be on designing sophisticated analytical frameworks, elevating how we measure the business, and turning complex data into simple, actionable recommendations for our CFO, VP Finance, FP&A team, and other senior leaders. You'll report to the VP Finance and operate as a team leader, building and leading a small, high-performing Business Analytics & Insights team while staying hands-on across SQL, statistical analysis, and data visualization. In your first year, you'll establish the core set of executive dashboards, strategic KPIs, and analytic tools that GitLab's leadership will rely on to run the company, evaluate new opportunities, and allocate resources with confidence. You'll help transform data from a byproduct of our operations into a strategic asset that guides the future of GitLab.

What you'll do

• Partner directly with the CFO, VP Finance, and FP&A team to deliver high-impact analytical insights that inform strategic financial and business decisions.
• Design and execute sophisticated analytical frameworks to evaluate GitLab's financial performance, unit economics, market opportunities, and strategic options.
• Translate complex financial, operational, and statistical analyses into clear, concise, and actionable recommendations for executive audiences, especially finance leaders.
• Develop, maintain, and continuously improve executive-level dashboards and reporting that provide real-time visibility into key financial metrics, strategic KPIs, and business trends.
• Lead and develop a team of 3 direct reports, owning end-to-end delivery of high-priority analytics projects while remaining deeply hands-on with analysis, modeling, and visualization.
• Collaborate cross-functionally with central data, finance, product, marketing, sales, and engineering teams to connect data from multiple sources and deliver integrated, company-wide insights.
• Build strong, trusted relationships with C-level executives and senior leaders by anticipating information needs, proactively surfacing insights, and following through on commitments.
• Present analytical findings and strategic recommendations with clarity and impact, tailoring your communication style to non-technical executive stakeholders an