Growth:Acquisition Group

Vision

The Acquisition Group is part of the Growth Stage. We work on connecting our users with our product value.

• I have a question. Who do I ask?

Questions should start by @ mentioning the Product Manager for the Acquisition group or creating a new issue in the Growth Product Acquisition issues list.

Mission

The Growth:Acquisition Group works on product priorities and growth deliverables with our Growth product managers and contributes to Growth initiatives including the Registration Flow and Continuous onboarding.

Team Members

The following people are permanent members of the Growth:Acquisition team:

Name	Role

Stable Counterparts

We work directly with the following team members in the Growth:Acquisition group:

Name	Role
Costel Maxim	Senior Security Engineer, Application Security, Plan (Project Management, Product Planning, Certify), Create:Source Code, Growth, Fulfillment:Purchase, Fulfillment:Provision, Fulfillment:Utilization, Systems:Gitaly
Doug Stull	Staff Fullstack Engineer, Growth:Acquisition
Jay Montal	Senior Fullstack Engineer, Growth::Acquisition
Kamil Niechajewicz	Engineering Manager, Growth
Nikhil George	Senior Security Engineer, Application Security, Secure (Static Analysis, Dynamic Analysis, Composition Analysis, Vulnerability Research), Growth (Acquisition, Activation).
Philipp Zapf	Customer Success Manager, Growth (Enterprise EMEA)
Roy Liu	Associate Fullstack Engineer, Growth:Acquisition
Ross Byrne	Fullstack Engineer, Growth:Acquisition
Sam Awezec	Principal Product Manager, Growth:Acquisition and Activation
Serhii Yarynovskyi	Fullstack Engineer, Growth:Acquisition

How We Work

• We’re data savvy
• In accordance with our GitLab values
• Transparently: nearly everything is public
• We get a chance to work on the things we want to work on
• Everyone can contribute; no silos

Prioritization

Prioritization is a collaboration between Product, UX, Engineering, and Quality.

• We use the ICE framework for experiments
• We use Priority and Severity labels for bugs

Workflow

• We use the Product Development workflow when working on issues and merge requests across multiple projects.

• We use a shared Kanban workflow board for both groups - Acquisition and Activation for work in the build phase of the product development flow.

• We use refinement threads on issues to discuss our approach and estimate weight of upcoming work.

Common Links

• Growth Stage
• Acquisition issues
• #g_acquisition in Slack (GitLab internal)