Customer Success Architect

The Customer Success Architect (CSA) team focuses on the themes of align enable and expand.

The Customer Success Architect (CSA) is a highly strategic position designed to provide unparalleled value to our customers by aligning our platform with their unique business objectives and driving long-term success.

The CSA role is a pivotal addition to our customer success team focusing on building strong consultative relationships with our key customers. Our CSAs will serve as trusted advisors leveraging their deep understanding of DevSecOps best practices industry trends and our software capabilities to help customers navigate complex challenges and achieve their desired outcomes.

Additionally our team serves as liaisons between the customer and the GitLab ecosystem streamlining collaboration with Product Management Engineering Sales Professional Services and others. CSM handbook .

The Customer Success Architect (CSA) team focuses on hands-on technical enablement adoption utilization and maturity - while maintaining strong customer relationships and business alignment.

Responsibilities

• Partner with our customers in taking what was established in the pre-sales command plan and turning the customers desired positive business outcomes into actionable objectives

• Know the GitLab platform our more common best practices and use cases in order to guide the customer

• Understand the customer journey and be able to guide them on future adoption

• Act as the GitLab liaison for GitLab questions issues or escalations. Work with GitLab Support Product Management (i.e. roadmaps) or other teams as needed

• Own a book of assigned customers with a focus on increasing adoption ensuring retention and growth and overall customer satisfaction

• Remain knowledgeable and up-to-date on GitLab releases

• Provide immediate onboarding activities

• Work with assigned customers to build Customer Success Plans establishing critical goals or other key performance indicators and aid the customer in achieving their goals

• Program manage account escalations Provide insights with respect to the availability and applicability of new features in GitLab as relevant

• Support GitLab Services in identifying and recommending training opportunities

Requirements

• Understanding of Git and typical branching strategies

• Knowledge of software development lifecycle and development pipeline

• Understanding of continuous integration continuous deployment DevSecOps

• Prior experience in Customer Success or equivalent history of increasing satisfaction adoption and retention

• Experience partnering with customers to define and achieve business outcomes

• Familiarity working with customers of sizes relevant to the assigned segment

• Exceptional verbal written organizational presentation and communications skills

• Detailed oriented and analytical Strong team player but self-starter

• Project management experience & skills

• Strong technical analytic and problem-solving skills

• Alignment with our values and willingness to work in accordance with those values

• Ability to travel if needed and comply with the company’s travel policy

• Demonstrated progressive experience in a related function is required with direct customer advocacy and engagement experience in post-sales or professional services functions