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An overview of this role

Mid-market Account Executives are the primary point of contact between prospective and existing customers of GitLab within a space defined as mid-market, which currently works with companies that employ up to 4000 employees. These GitLab team members manage the spectrum of project sizes, ranging from small fast growing teams in smaller agile organizations to complex enterprise projects advising on the journey with GitLab to achieve specific business outcomes. Mid-Market AEs work closely in tandem with the business development team and sales management to manage a broad book of business spread over a large opportunity value range and focus on exceeding client expectations.

What you’ll do  

• Account Executive, Mid-market (AE) will report to an Area Sales Manager.
• Support GitLab for our Mid Market prospects.
• Contribute to root cause analyses on wins/losses.
• Communicate lessons learned to the team, including account managers, the marketing team, and the technical team.
• Take ownership of your book of business
• document the buying criteria
• document the buying process
• document next steps and owners
• ensure pipeline accuracy based on evidence and not hope
• Contribute to documenting improvements in our sales handbook.
• Provide account leadership and direction in the pre- and post-sales process
• Be the voice of the customer by contributing product ideas to our public issue tracker

What you’ll bring 

• A true desire to see customers benefit from the investment they make with you
• Demonstrated progressive experience with Software sales
• Interest in GitLab, and open source software
• Ability to leverage established relationships and proven sales techniques for success
• Effective communicator, strong interpersonal skills
• Motivated, driven and results oriented
• 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 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/account-executive/ 

How GitLab will support you

• Benefits to support your 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

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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The Customer Success Engineer (CSE) role provides deep subject matter expertise on GitLab technical and product solutions and best practices. CSEs provide customers with technical guidance, go in-depth on use case implementation, and demonstrate the value of GitLab product capabilities.

The Senior CSE reports to the Manager/Senior Manager, CSE.

Customer Success Engineer Responsibilities

• Engage with customers, via Zoom calls and emails, in a technical consultancy and advisor role during the post-sales process while providing technical and solution guidance
• Providing technical, architectural and best practice guidance
• Drive the achievement of measurable value (business outcomes), leading to product adoption, renewal, and expansion
• Align with Account Executives and Renewals Managers to provide customer-facing subject matter expertise based on the customer’s business objectives
• Focus on solution-based programs that are customized to fit an individual customer’s needs
• Develop and collaborate on customer workshops, demos, and other enablement
• Maintain specialty competency in one or more technologies related to GitLab’s market focus through activities such as training, certification and creation of working examples for reuse internally and by customers and partners
• Continuously improve professional skills with a focus on personal mastery and team learning through activities such as training, reading and seeking mentorship from others
• Contributes to our docs, YouTube channel, and other enablement programs such as the Digital Journey

Customer Success Engineer Requirements

• Experience with a GitLab use case (SCM, CI, CD, DevSecOps, Agile Planning) to provide in-depth customer guidance and enablement
• Proficiency using DevSecOps tools or highly technical tooling in adjacent fields
• Specialize in GitLab use cases to provide in-depth guidance and enablement to customers of all sizes, including large enterprise organizations
• Technical experience in development or systems engineering
• Demonstrated capacity to clearly and concisely communicate about complex technical, architectural, and/or organizational problems and propose thorough iterative solutions
• Have demonstrated the ability to become a trusted technical advisor to customer and business leaders
• Exceptional verbal, presentation, and written communication skills
• Excellent time management and ability to work with several different teams at any given time
• Fluent German 

How GitLab will support you

• Benefits to support your health, finances, and well-being
• All remote, asynchronous work environment
• Unlimited PTO (paid time off)
• Team Member Resource Groups
• Equity Compensation & Employee Stock Purchase Plan
• Growth and development budget 
• Parental leave
• Home office support

Hiring process

Recruiter Screening

Qualified candidates will be invited to schedule a 30 minute screening call with one of our Global Recruiters.

Hiring Manager Interview

The hiring manager interview is the first of the interviews with the Customer Success team. This interview is with the manager of the team the candidate is applying to join. It is a 45 minute interview.

Panel Interview

The panel interview consists of several members of the Customer Success team. It typically includes the hiring manager and two other team members. This is a 60 minute interview, with the following format:

• Live demonstration based on the guidance provided ahead of the interview by the recruiter
• General discussion and questions from the panel

Executive Interview

Conducted by the Senior Director of Customer Success, this is a discussion with the candidate as a final assessment interview to evaluate the candidate’s suitability for the role. This is a 30 minute interview.

Reference and Background Check

Once the candidate has successfully completed all interview stages with positive recommendations at each stage, GitLab will complete reference checks and a background check.

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

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.

Remote, due to the stakeholders location candidates must be based in Germany

An overview of this role

A strong partner ecosystem is crucial in the success and growth of  GitLab’s business. Partners are a strategic imperative for GitLab’s continued growth and market expansion. As customer requirements become more complex we need partners with capability and capacity to help customers implement, support and grow their usage of GitLab.  We work closely with cross functional leadership to ensure partners are integrated throughout the sales cycle both pre and post sales. Partner Account Managers (Internal name is Ecosystem Sales Managers) are critical in recruiting and building relationships with partners. Partner Account Managers (Internal name is Ecosystem Sales Managers) also work with partners to establish and measure goals and performance including pipeline, revenue generation and growing their overall GitLab practice. 

All individual contributors are referred to as “Ecosystem Sales Managers” or “ESM” and share the same primary requirements, responsibilities, and performance indicators. 

What you’ll do

• Responsibilities: Leads major ecosystem partner initiatives, develops long-term strategic plans for ecosystem partner growth.
• Interaction: Extensive communication both internally at senior levels and externally with major partners.
• Impact: High, influencing key strategic decisions and ecosystem partner performance.
• Coordinate/facilitate the involvement of GitLab team members, including sales leadership, support, etc. as needed to ensure meeting sales targets and ecosystem sales objectives.
• Build, maintain, and manage relationships with the Gitlab field sales organization.
• Proactively engage with GitLab AEs, ASMs and geo leadership.
• Work closely with local System Integrators, Solution providers, Managed Services Partners and Hyperscalers (AWS & Google)
• Design and execute comprehensive joint business plans with partners, including detailed partner account mapping, go-to-market strategies, and governance models to ensure a robust and mutually beneficial relationship.
• Identify and support regional-specific demand generation/pipeline building activities with strategic partners.
• Contribute to quarterly business reviews (QBRs) within your assigned territory.
• Participate in annual planning within the Ecosystem organization.
• Provide cloud-related weekly forecasts and/or progress reports.
• Prepare presentations, territory plans and reports as required.
• Knowledge: In-depth understanding of strategic ecosystem partners, industry dynamics, and advanced business operations.

What you’ll bring

• Experience selling software development tools and/or application lifecycle management solutions via strategic partnerships.
• 5+ years in same or similar fields
• Strong network across the partner ecosystem in Germany
• Be an expert of Partner Ecosystems in the DACH region and the Cloud market
• Experience selling open source solutions.
• Experience with B2B sales.
• Interest in GitLab, and open source software.
• Language Proficiency: Fluent in both German and English, with excellent communication skills in both languages.
• Effective written and verbal communication skills.
• Strong interpersonal skills and an ability to remain calm under pressure.
• Established personal network within the industry.
• Results oriented perspective.
• You share our values, and work in accordance with those values.
• Ability to use GitLab.
• Experience with Salesforce.
• Ability to travel up to 50% and comply with the company’s travel policy.

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