GitLab
Associate Strategic Account Executive UK
Job Summary
This role involves supporting GitLab’s large prospects and customers within a specific territory, expanding the customer base, and generating new opportunities through various lead sources. The responsibilities include account management, conducting sales activities, and ensuring product adoption by coordinating with teams and developing formal proposals. Candidates should have proven B2B software sales success, effective communication skills, and the ability to adapt to changing environments. The position emphasizes a consultative approach, relationship-building, and cross-functional collaboration to drive customer success and meet sales targets, all within a remote, flexible work environment.
Required Skills
Benefits
Job Description
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 organisation.
Responsibilities
- Support GitLab’s large prospects and customers within a geographic territory
- Expand current customer base and land net new accounts
- Generate new customers through different lead sources and bring those opportunities to a successful close
- Generate qualified leads and develop new customers in conjunction with our strategic partners
- Take ownership of your book of business
- Document the buying criteria
- Document the buying process
- Document next steps and owners
- Ensure pipeline accuracy
- 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 engineering and support resources
- Utilize a consultative approach, discuss business issues with prospects 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.
- Works cross functionally with other teams to ensure customer success
- Update and maintain Sales systems’ database as appropriate
- Contribute to documenting improvements in our sales handbook.
Requirements
- Proven B2B software sales success
- Interest in GitLab, and open source software
- Ability to adapt to a changing environment
- Effective communicator (written/verbal), strong interpersonal skills
- Motivated, driven, and results oriented
- 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
- 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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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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