Senior Diversity Business Partner

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 the rate of human progress. This mission is integral to our culture, influencing how we hire, build products, and lead our industry. We make this possible at GitLab by running our operations on our product and staying aligned with our values. Learn more about Life at GitLab.

An overview of the role 

We're looking for a Senior Diversity Business Partner to provide partnership, support and strategic oversight for our Engineering, Product and Security divisions. As a Senior Diversity Business Partner, you will be directly responsible for augmenting our overall strategy into our R&D functional areas, creating milestones, tracking progress and ultimately supporting leaders in driving results on representation within GitLab. This is a highly collaborative role dependent on strong strategic relationships within the business. Experience influencing senior stakeholders in inclusive behaviors and best practice will be highly applicable to this role, and essential in ensuring DIB initiatives impact the engagement, retention and development of diverse talent. This is an exciting opportunity to drive an outsized impact at GitLab, and a passion for building and driving inclusivity throughout the ways we work is key. 

What you’ll do

• Influence and hold leadership accountable to deliver on DIB initiatives; provide consultation, coordination and strategic planning for the design and implementation of programs focused on creating a culture of belonging, developing and advancing diverse internal talent, and reducing the attrition of diverse talent.
• Focus on and drive initiatives that move the needle on our overall headcount and promotions among underrepresented groups.
• Expand and extend GitLab’s DIB strategy into the R&D organization, with added rigor and accountability.
• Leverage data driven insights throughout to determine the narrative, measure success and advocate for change.
• Build strong collaborative working relationships among People and other cross-functional teams.
• Establish, manage and iterate on key performance indicators and OKRs specifically supporting the employee lifecycle within the Engineering, Product and Security departments.
• Ensure alignment with our Learning and Development team members and develop a long term roadmap that will scale beyond R&D.
• Alignment with people business partners on org health metrics …