Chief of Staff, Legal and Corporate Affairs
Chief of Staff, Legal & Corporate Affairs
Summary
The Chief of Staff, Legal & Corporate Affairs acts as a trusted partner to the Chief Legal Officer and Corporate Secretary. They will be responsible for supporting GitLab’s Legal & Corporate Affairs team with a focus on defining and driving initiatives that support the team’s cross functional reach and easy to work with reputation.
The Chief of Staff, Legal & Corporate Affairs is a senior strategic leadership role. This person will be responsible for driving operational alignment across the LACA team. This person will also partner with the CLO & Head of Corporate Affairs to develop efficient content for critical strategic meetings including GitLab Board of Directors meeting, E-Group Offsites and Legal & Corporate Affairs Leadership Offsites. This is a unique opportunity to interact with every aspect of a public company at scale.
Job Grade
The Chief of Staff, Legal & Corporate Affairs is a grade 11.
Job Responsibilities
- Lead cross-functional projects that further the strategy of the Legal & Corporate Affairs team, which require significant stakeholder engagement and collaboration
- Manage and implement annual and quarterly budget for headcount, training, and technology stack with clear vision for future growth in line with company goals
- Develop, implement, and continually iterate on legal processes to be embedded within company workflows
- Analyze processes and procedures to increase efficiency across each segment within Legal & Corporate Affairs
- Create, implement, and maintain improved processes and automation with an emphasis on optimization and mitigation of risk
Requirements
- Experience in a senior leadership position as a Chief of Staff, head of in-house strategy & operations, or functional equivalent
- Proven success with annual and quarterly strategic planning and financial management of a high growth team
- Expertise in planning, organizing and moderating various types of meetings and collaborative assignments, including but not limited to in-person events/off-sites, preparing presentations, agendas, and templates for attendees which drive positive outcomes efficiently
- Strong ability to assist in the drafting and overall management of internal and external facing documentation, which can range from the preparation of Board of Director materials to onboarding for incoming team members
- Outstanding interpersonal and communication skills, including the ability to interface effectively with business functions across the organization
- Adept at navigating multiple work streams simultaneously items across multiple partners including Finance, Product & Engineering, Marketing and Sales
- Highly proficient in sourcing, implementing and managing a myriad of software and operations tools and accompanying tech stack, ideally contract management systems/databases, as well as internal training materials,and other tools to ensure consistency and standardization
- Excellent business judgment and analytical skills, an appetite for intelligent risk and a keen ability to “read the room” in order collaborate, efficiently remove roadblocks
- Ability to use GitLab
About GitLab
GitLab Inc. is a company based on the GitLab open-source project. GitLab is a community project to which over 2,200 people worldwide have contributed. We are an active participant in this community, trying to serve its needs and lead by example. We have one vision: everyone can contribute to all digital content, and our mission is to change all creative work from read-only to read-write so that everyone can contribute.
We value results, transparency, sharing, freedom, efficiency, self-learning, frugality, collaboration, directness, kindness, diversity, inclusion and belonging, boring solutions, and quirkiness. If these values match your personality, work ethic, and personal goals, we encourage you to visit our primer to learn more. Open source is our culture, our way of life, our story, and what makes us truly unique.
Top 10 Reasons to Work for GitLab:
- Mission: Everyone can contribute
- Results: Fast growth, ambitious vision
- Flexible Work Hours: Plan your day so you are there for other people & have time for personal interests
- Transparency: Over 2,000 webpages in GitLab handbook, GitLab Unfiltered YouTube channel
- Iteration: Empower people to be effective & have an impact, Merge Request rate, We dogfood our own product, Directly responsible individuals
- Diversity, Inclusion & Belonging: A focus on gender parity, Team Member Resource Groups, other initiatives
- Collaboration: Kindness, saying thanks, intentionally organize informal communication, no ego
- Total Rewards: Competitive market rates for compensation, Equity compensation, global benefits (inclusive of office equipment)
- Work/Life Harmony: Flexible workday, Family and Friends days
- Remote Done Right: One of the world's largest all-remote companies, prolific inventor of remote best practices
See our culture page for more!
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