Investor Relations Manager

An Overview of the Investor Relations Manager Role at GitLab

As an Investor Relations Manager at GitLab, you will be instrumental in articulating GitLab’s financial and strategic narrative to the investment community. This role ensures that current and prospective shareholders, research analysts, and other external stakeholders gain a clear understanding of GitLab's strategy, business model, and performance within the dynamic DevOps and broader technology ecosystem. Reporting directly to the VP of Investor Relations, you will collaborate extensively with various departments, including Finance, Corporate Communications, Legal, Product, and Marketing. Your contributions will involve developing data-driven insights, refining GitLab's investment thesis, and supporting critical activities such as quarterly earnings, investor material creation, and peer benchmarking. In your initial year, you will focus on enhancing GitLab's scalable investor relations program by strengthening financial and competitive analysis, enriching investor-facing content, and preparing teams for high-visibility interactions with the investment community.

Key Responsibilities

• Develop a profound understanding of GitLab's strategy, operating model, financial performance, and competitive standing within the DevOps and technology sectors.
• Contribute to shaping and communicating GitLab's investment thesis by analyzing industry trends, market dynamics, shareholder feedback, and competitive behavior, translating these insights into compelling investor narratives.
• Support the entire quarterly earnings process, encompassing key message development, data collection and analysis, drafting earnings materials, and preparing scripts, Q&A, and logistical arrangements.
• Create clear, impactful investor-facing materials, including earnings presentations, investor decks, shareholder letters, and executive briefing documents, ensuring alignment with GitLab’s overall messaging.
• Build, maintain, and improve investor relations resources such as financial models, valuation analyses, analyst model and consensus tracking, IR website content, industry trackers, and peer benchmarks.
• Analyze competitors' business models and performance through SEC filings, earnings calls, analyst research, and public disclosures, delivering precise quantitative and qualitative insights to senior leadership.
• Aid in the development and execution of a proactive investor relations strategy, including investor base tracking, targeting initiatives, and fostering relationships with current and prospective shareholders.
• Coordinate investor meetings, roadshows, conferences, and other corporate access events, collaborating closely with Finance, Legal, Corporate Communications, Product, and Marketing to ensure accurate, compliant, and consistent communications.

What You'll Bring to the Team

• A background in finance, economics, accounting, business, or a related field, with a solid foundation in financial reporting and capital markets.
• Prior experience in investor relations or a financially rigorous role such as investment banking, equity research, private equity, or corporate development, preferably within a public Software/SaaS or high-growth technology company.
• Proficiency in analyzing GAAP financial statements, constructing and maintaining financial models, and applying valuation techniques like discounted cash flow and comparable analyses.
• Demonstrated ability to synthesize complex financial, strategic, and competitive information into clear, accurate materials for diverse audiences, including investors, research analysts, and executives.
• Familiarity with SEC requirements and public company best practices for financial disclosure and external communication.
• Advanced skills in PowerPoint, Excel, and Google Workspace, with comfort in handling complex datasets, consensus models, and competitive intelligence sources.
• Proven capability to manage multiple projects and meet deadlines in a fast-paced, global, cross-functional setting, effectively partnering with senior leaders and teams across Finance, Legal, Corporate Communications, Product, and Marketing.
• A high degree of professionalism, sound judgment, and ethical standards; candidates with transferable skills from related finance or capital markets roles are encouraged to apply.

About the Investor Relations Team at GitLab

The Investor Relations team is responsible for GitLab's engagement with the investment community, helping both current and prospective shareholders understand our strategy, financial performance, and our standing within the DevSecOps and AI-powered software ecosystem. As a member of this small, highly collaborative function reporting to the VP of Investor Relations, you will work asynchronously across various time zones with Finance, Corporate Communications, Legal, Product, and Marketing to develop disclosures, earnings materials, and investor-facing content. The team is dedicated to scaling a proactive, data-driven investor relations program as GitLab continues its growth as a public company, focusing on deepening competitive and peer analysis, refining our investment thesis, and ensuring external messaging is consistent, compliant, and aligned with our long-term strategy.

Key Skills/Competency

• Investor Relations
• Financial Analysis
• GAAP Accounting
• Capital Markets
• Financial Modeling
• SEC Filings
• Public Company Reporting
• Strategic Communications
• Competitive Intelligence
• Stakeholder Engagement