Strategic Account Executive, France
Job description
A Strategic Account Executive role at GitLab, owning a portfolio of strategic and large enterprise customers and prospects in France and driving new business and expansion of GitLab's AI-powered DevSecOps platform.
At a glance
- Employment
- Full-time
- Work mode
- Remote · France
What you'll do
- Own a portfolio of strategic and large enterprise accounts in France, driving both new customer acquisition and expansion within existing customers.
- Lead complex, multi-stakeholder sales cycles from prospecting and qualification through evaluation, negotiation, and close using a consultative approach.
- Develop and execute focused account plans that connect customer priorities with GitLab's AI-powered DevSecOps platform and GitLab Duo capabilities.
- Collaborate with Solutions Architects, Customer Success, Support, and Channel partners to run successful evaluations, rollouts, and long-term adoption of GitLab.
- Partner with strategic channel partners to plan and execute joint territory activities, co-selling motions, and campaigns that build and progress qualified pipeline.
- Act as the voice of the customer by sharing feedback and product ideas through GitLab's public issue tracker and with internal product and go-to-market teams.
- Maintain accurate activity, pipeline, and forecast data, and contribute to win/loss reviews to continuously improve sales execution and territory strategy.
- Work with Marketing to shape and support account-based and regional campaigns tailored to priority accounts and key buying centers in your territory.
What we're looking for
- Experience managing and growing large, complex strategic or enterprise accounts, including both new logo acquisition and expansion of existing customers.
- Background selling software, developer tools, or related technology solutions to senior business and technical stakeholders in enterprise organisations.
- Skill in building and executing structured account plans, managing pipeline and forecast data, and coordinating cross-functional resources across pre-sales, post-sales, support, and channel partners.
- Ability to run full-cycle, multi-stakeholder sales processes using a consultative approach, from prospecting and qualification through evaluation, negotiation, and close.
- Effective communication and presentation skills, with the ability to translate customer needs into clear input for product, marketing, and technical teams.
- Familiarity with Git, software development tools, or application lifecycle management, and interest in learning GitLab's DevSecOps and AI-powered platform.
- Alignment with GitLab's values, including transparency, collaboration, and inclusion, with openness to bringing transferable experience from different industries or backgrounds.
Your team
Strategic Sales team
A regional Strategic Sales team that focuses on GitLab's largest and most complex customers in France, working closely with Solutions Architects, Customer Success, Support, and channel partners in a fully remote, asynchronous environment.
Benefits
- Flexible Paid Time Off
- Team Member Resource Groups
- Equity Compensation & Employee Stock Purchase Plan
- Growth and Development Fund
- Parental leave
- Home office support
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About GitLab
The intelligent orchestration platform for DevSecOps
GitLab is an open-core software company that develops the most comprehensive AI-powered DevSecOps Platform, used by more than 100,000 organizations.
Mission
To enable everyone to contribute to and co-create the software that powers our world.
Key facts
- DevSecOps software
- More than 50 million registered users
- More than 50% of the Fortune 100 trust GitLab
- Used by more than 100,000 organizations
- All roles are remote
What they value
- Transparency
- Collaboration
- Inclusion