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GitLab: Hiring Strategic Executives to Unlock Growth
GitLab is a complete DevOps platform that enables professionals to expertly perform all tasks in a project. After partnering with a reseller in China, GitLab was looking to recruit an Executive to manage operations and strategy, while ensuring a thriving partnership.
The Results
After only six months of unsuccessful search, Gitlab engaged Preacta to fill this Executive role. In what proved to be a heavily saturated market, Preacta experts worked with GitLab to quickly recruit for their new Executive position at record speeds.
260
Candidates
5
Countries
10
Shortlisted
Candidates
Successful
Hires in
3 wks
The Challenge
GitLab was looking to gain the cutting edge in the hyper-competitive technology landscape. Because of their new partnership with a China reseller, GitLab needed to hire a Director of Strategy and Operations—and fast. This role would determine the company’s success in entering the Chinese market.
The main challenges GitLab faced:
- Identifying the scope of the JD and skills prioritisation
- Extremely niche talent pool
- Talent identification across multiple countries (USA, Singapore, Australia & NZ)
The Solution
With a commitment to performance, transparency, and continuous learning, Preacta worked with GitLab to hire a Director of Strategy and Operations utilising the following:
- Retained searches identified the challenges the industry was facing.
- Talent Intelligence support filtered and pinned down talent pool across multiple locations.
- Advisory leveraged Talent Intelligence results to understand the market better and prioritise the skillsets requirements.
- Delivery of a strong, curated shortlist of candidates.
- Customised Real-time Reporting Dashboards for visualising GitLab’s growth and success.
About the Client
GitLab is a complete DevOps platform that enables professionals to perform all the tasks in a project—from project planning and source code management to monitoring and security.
Industry
Technology
Location
HQ in San Francisco with offices around the globe
Employees
2,200+
Leveraging from Talent Intelligence insights, we helped the client understand the talent pool and adapt the requirements accordingly which resulted in a successful hire.
Justin
Talent Partner
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