FY27 Annual Goals
FY26 Annual Goals
Organizational Planning

Strategic Planning
Approved: April 2025
We have a three-year strategic plan that guides our priorities and decisions. This plan outlines our long-term goals and provides a framework to align our annual objectives, programs, and operations with our mission. It serves as a roadmap to ensure we stay focused, adaptive, and accountable as we work toward creating meaningful impact.
Annual Goal-Setting Process
GitLab Foundation team members work together yearly to establish annual goals for the coming fiscal year (February 1-January 31).
- The President and CEO will determine the organization's main focus areas for goal-setting (July).
- Each Function Lead will draft a brief statement addressing their function's overarching goal for the year and 3-5 key results they hope to accomplish. Key results should be few and specific and ideally include quantified targets.
- Function leads should work with their teams on objectives and key results
- Each Function Lead will give the LT an overview of their goals and critical results, allowing LT members to ask hard questions, make suggestions, and provide feedback.
- Function leads will iterate their goals and key results based on the feedback, share with their teams for feedback, and iterate again.
- Function leads will share finalized proposed annual goals with the Leadership Team.
- The President & CEO will then finalize the proposed annual goals.
- The Annual Goals will be presented to the Board for approval at the September board meeting.
- The President & CEO, and Director of Operations will make necessary adjustments based on feedback from the Board, finalizing and documenting goals in the Handbook.
- Function leads will work with their teams to create Annual Operating Plans (AOPs) to present at the December board meeting which will help inform the annual budget process.
- Leadership team members will meet to discuss AOPs before sharing with the Board at the Q4 Board Meeting.
- Quarterly OKRs will align with and derive from each Function's Annual Operating Plan (AOP).