Strategic Account Executive - Central and Eastern Europe

1 Month ago • All levels • Account Management

Job Summary

Job Description

GitLab is seeking a Strategic Account Executive to support large prospects and customers. The role involves providing account leadership, conducting sales activities like prospecting, and managing the pre- and post-sales process. Responsibilities include driving product adoption, gathering customer feedback for the public issue tracker, generating leads through channel partners, and expanding industry knowledge. The executive will also prepare activity and forecast reports, contribute to win/loss analysis, and communicate lessons learned. A consultative approach is required, involving discussing business issues with prospects and developing proposals and quotes to meet their needs. The role also includes developing account plans and collaborating with the marketing team on strategies. The company emphasizes AI integration for productivity and innovation across its global organization.
Must have:
  • Desire to see customers benefit from investments
  • High degree of account management and control
  • Work under minimal supervision on complex projects
  • Experience selling into large organizations
  • Leverage established relationships and proven sales techniques
  • Excellent negotiation, presentation, and closing skills
Good to have:
  • Experience with Git
  • Experience with Software Development Tools
  • Experience with Application Lifecycle Management
  • Share company values and work in accordance with them
  • Ability to use GitLab
  • Ability to travel if needed and comply with company travel policy
Perks:
  • Benefits to support health, finances, and well-being
  • All remote, asynchronous work environment
  • Flexible Paid Time Off
  • Team Member Resource Groups
  • Equity Compensation & Employee Stock Purchase Plan
  • Growth and development budget
  • Parental leave
  • Home office support

Job Details

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.

Thanks to products like Duo Enterprise, and Duo Workflow, customers get the benefit of AI at every stage of the SDLC. The same principles built into our products are reflected in how our team works: we embrace AI as a core productivity multiplier. All team members are encouraged and expected to incorporate AI into their daily workflows to drive efficiency, innovation, and impact across our global organization.

A Strategic Account Executive reports to an Area Sales Manager. 

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
  • 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

About the team

Thanks to our Transparency value, you can see what we are working on in our Team page

Further information on the role can be found here - https://handbook.gitlab.com/job-families/sales/enterprise-account-executive/#associate-strategic-account-executive 

How GitLab will support you

Please note that we welcome interest from candidates with varying levels of experience; many successful candidates do not meet every single requirement. Additionally, studies have shown that people from underrepresented groups are less likely to apply to a job unless they meet every single qualification. If you're excited about this role, please apply and allow our recruiters to assess your application.

 

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GitLab is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and is an affirmative action employer. GitLab’s policies and practices relating to recruitment, employment, career development and advancement, promotion, and retirement are based solely on merit, regardless of race, color, religion, ancestry, sex (including pregnancy, lactation, sexual orientation, gender identity, or gender expression), national origin, age, citizenship, marital status, mental or physical disability, genetic information (including family medical history), discharge status from the military, protected veteran status (which includes disabled veterans, recently separated veterans, active duty wartime or campaign badge veterans, and Armed Forces service medal veterans), or any other basis protected by law. GitLab will not tolerate discrimination or harassment based on any of these characteristics. See also GitLab’s EEO Policy and EEO is the Law. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please let us know during the recruiting process.

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