Strategic Account Executive

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Strategic Account Executive selling GitLab’s AI-powered DevSecOps platform to Polish enterprise customers. Managing complex sales cycles, account expansion, partner collaboration, and long-term customer adoption.

Responsibilities:

  • Own a portfolio of strategic and enterprise accounts, driving net-new customer acquisition and expansion within existing customers
  • Lead complex sales cycles from prospecting and qualification through negotiation and close
  • Develop and execute structured account plans aligned with GitLab’s DevSecOps and AI-powered platform
  • Collaborate with pre-sales, customer success, support, and strategic channel partners on evaluations, rollouts, and adoption
  • Share customer feedback and product ideas through GitLab’s public issue tracker and with internal stakeholders
  • Generate and nurture qualified pipeline through targeted outreach, channel-partner activities, and existing relationships
  • Maintain accurate activity, pipeline, and forecast reports and contribute to win/loss analysis
  • Partner with Marketing on account-based and regional campaigns for pipeline generation and expansion
  • Travel to collaborate and meet with customers

Requirements:

  • Experience owning and growing large, complex accounts, including new business development and expansion
  • Background selling to strategic or enterprise organizations, ideally in software, developer tools, or related technology
  • Ability to run consultative sales processes from prospecting and discovery through proposal, negotiation, and closing
  • Demonstrated skill in account planning, forecast management, and coordinating pre-sales, post-sales, and support resources
  • Ability to translate customer needs into feedback for product, marketing, and technical teams
  • Ability to discuss business value with senior stakeholders and align solutions to customer goals
  • Familiarity with Git, software development tools, or application lifecycle management
  • Ability to learn GitLab’s platform
  • Alignment with GitLab’s values and openness to transferable experience from different industries or backgrounds
  • Willingness to travel

Benefits:

  • Benefits to support your health, finances, and well-being
  • Flexible Paid Time Off
  • Team Member Resource Groups
  • Equity Compensation & Employee Stock Purchase Plan
  • Growth and Development Fund
  • Parental Leave