Strategic Account Executive

About the role

As a Strategic Account Executive, you will manage a portfolio of large strategic customers and prospects in Germany, helping them maximize value from GitLab's AI-powered DevSecOps platform. You will drive full-cycle sales, from prospecting and qualification through to rollout and long-term growth, while acting as the voice of the customer to internal teams. This role involves a consultative approach to understand business needs and guide successful adoption of GitLab solutions.

Responsibilities

• Manage and support GitLab’s Strategic accounts.
• Manage the end to end sales process through engagement of appropriate resources such as Solutions Architects, Customer Success Managers, Professional Services, Marketing, Executives, Partners, and the Channel.
• Leverage solution selling expertise to respond efficiently to customer needs and identify business potential in order to build a strategic, long-term partnership with your customers.
• Has a deep understanding of the customer, including an understanding of their performance metrics and develops plans in anticipation of the customer’s business strategies and goals.
• Expand knowledge of industry as well as the competitive posture of the company.
• Contribute to root cause analysis on wins/losses.
• Communicate lessons learned to the team, including account managers, the marketing team, and the technical team.
• Provide account leadership and direction in the pre- and post-sales process.
• Conduct sales activities including prospecting and developing opportunities in Strategic accounts.
• Ensure the successful rollout and adoption of GitLab products through strong account management activities and coordination with pre-and-post sales engineering and support resources.
• Utilize a consultative approach, discuss business issues with prospect and develop a formal quote, a written sales proposal or a formal sales presentation addressing their business needs.
• Develop an account plan to sell to customers based on their business needs.

Required skills

• Solution selling
• Git
• Software Development Tools
• Application Lifecycle Management
• Enterprise sales

Benefits

• Flexible Paid Time Off
• Team Member Resource Groups
• Equity Compensation
• Employee Stock Purchase Plan
• Growth and Development Fund
• Parental Leave

About the Company

GitLab is the intelligent orchestration platform for DevSecOps, enabling organizations to increase developer productivity, improve operational efficiency, and reduce security and compliance risk. More than 50 million registered users and more than 50% of the Fortune 100 trust GitLab to ship better, more secure software faster.