Enterprise Strategic Account Executive

The Enterprise Sales department is part of GitLab Sales and includes both Large and Public Sector sales teams. The sales field in Enterprise is made up of Major and Strategic Account Executives (MAEs and SAEs) who collaborate closely with their deal team (Inside Sales Customer Success Sales Development Channel & Alliances and more) and work across functions to deliver maximum value to strategic and large prospects and customers throughout their entire journey with GitLab. When thinking about ‘what good looks like’ in this department refer to your job family the field competencies and our GitLab values .

Responsibilities

• Supports GitLab’s strategic large prospects and customers in the Ohio Valley region.

• 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.

Requirements

• 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

The confidence gap exists. The above list is intended to show the kinds of experience and qualities we’re looking for. If you’re reading this do not match all of the requirements and are hesitant to apply we encourage you to make an application despite your hesitations.

Hiring Process

Additional details about our process can be found here .

Work remotely from anywhere in the world. Curious to see what that looks like? Check out our remote manifesto and guides .

Compensation

To view the full job description and its compensation calculator view our handbook. The compensation calculator can be found towards the bottom of the page.

Additional details about our process can be found on our hiring page .

LI-KR-GITLAB

Remote-Global