Melissa Ushakov on GitLab’s post-IPO PM org evolution, async-first collaboration, and open-sourcing internal PM practices

Product State Q&A

Melissa Ushakov is Group Manager, Product Management at GitLab — as well as Board Treasurer at Latinitas. She was formerly a Sr Product Manager at Atlassian, AgileCraft and Rackspace. Previously, she held roles at Deloitte and Microsoft.
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EC: How has your PM org matured and transformed after IPO?

MU: I joined GitLab 4.5 years ago, over a year bef…