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Strategic Account Executive- West

Remote, US, United StatesRemotefull_timeVerifiedPosted 8 Apr 2025

💰 $174,000/yr($98,600/yr – $174,000/yr)

About the role

GitLab is an open core software company that develops the most comprehensive AI-powered DevSecOps Platform, used by more than 100,000 organizations. Our mission is to enable everyone to contribute to and co-create the software that powers our world. When everyone can contribute, consumers become contributors, significantly accelerating the rate of human progress. This mission is integral to our culture, influencing how we hire, build products, and lead our industry. We make this possible at GitLab by running our operations on our product and staying aligned with our values. Learn more about Life at GitLab.

Strategic Account Executive, Enterprise

Location: Southern California

An overview of this role

GitLab is the most comprehensive AI-powered DevSecOps platform for software innovation. GitLab enables organizations to increase developer productivity, improve operational efficiency, reduce security and compliance risk, and accelerate digital transformation. More than 40 million registered users and more than 50% of the Fortune 100 trust GitLab to ship better, more secure software faster.

This role is a member of our AMER Enterprise Team. The right candidate will have a positive record of Enterprise Sales experience along with solid background in the software development lifecycle in areas like CI/CD automation, secure development practices, and infrastructure modernization in a regulated environment.

What you’ll do

Supports GitLab’s strategic large prospects and customers.
Provide account leadership and direction in the pre- and post-sales process
Conduct sales activities including prospecting and developing opportunities in large/strategic accounts
Ensure the successful rollout and adoption of GitLab products through strong account management activities and coordination with pre-and-post sales and support resources
Be the voice of the customer by contributing product ideas to our public issue tracker
Generate qualified leads and develop new customers in conjunction with our strategic channel partners .
Expand knowledge of industry as well as the competitive posture of the company
Prepare activity and forecast reports
Contribute to root cause analysis on wins/losses.
Communicate lessons learned to the team, including account managers, the marketing team, and the technical team
Assist sales management in conveying customer needs to product managers, and technical support staff
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.
Collaborate with Marketing on marketing strategies.

What you’ll bring

A true desire to see customers benefit from the investment they make with you
Able to provide high degree of account management and control
Work under minimal supervision on complex projects
Experience selling into large organizations
Ability to leverage established relationships and proven sales techniques for success
Excellent negotiation, presentation and closing skills
Preferred experience with Git, Software Development Tools, Application Lifecycle Management, or security/App Sec tools
You share our values, and work in accordance with those values.
Ability to use GitLab
Ability to travel if needed and comply with the company’s travel policy