Lead the Analytics engineering organization with accountability for strategy, architecture, execution, and team health. Guide Engineering Managers and partner with Principal Engineers to set technical direction and support key architectural decisions. Define the roadmap for analytics capabilities across instrumentation, data foundations, and customer-facing data products. Oversee the design and operation of end-to-end data pipelines, including instrumentation, ingestion, transformation, storage, serving, and product integration. Drive platform and architecture decisions that support GitLab's SaaS, self-managed, and regulated or isolated deployment environments. Collaborate with Product, UX, Infrastructure, Data, and AI leaders to align roadmap, architecture, and execution. Build a high-performing engineering organization with clear ownership, strong operational discipline, and a consistent technical standard. Champion asynchronous ways of working and AI-assisted development workflows.