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Strategic Account Executive – Retail & Media
Location
France
Posted
3 days ago
Salary
0
Seniority
Senior
Job Description
Strategic Account Executive – Retail & Media
GitLab
• Lead strategic account activity for large prospects and customers, providing direction throughout pre-sales and post-sales engagements. • Develop opportunities within enterprise accounts through prospecting, relationship building, and a consultative understanding of customer business needs. • Create account plans and customer proposals that clearly connect GitLab capabilities to organizational priorities and transformation goals. • Coordinate with pre-sales, post-sales, and support teams to support successful product rollout and customer adoption. • Generate qualified pipeline in partnership with strategic channel partners and support new customer development efforts. • Contribute customer feedback and product ideas to GitLab's public issue tracker to represent the voice of the customer. • Prepare activity and forecast reports, and help analyze wins and losses to improve future sales execution. • Collaborate with marketing, account teams, product managers, and technical teams to share lessons learned and communicate customer needs clearly.
Job Requirements
- Experience selling into large organizations and navigating complex enterprise sales cycles with multiple stakeholders.
- Ability to build and manage executive-level customer relationships with a high degree of ownership and follow-through.
- Skill in consultative selling, including shaping proposals, presentations, and formal quotes around customer business needs.
- Strength in negotiation, presentation, and closing conversations in a clear and effective way.
- Comfort working independently on complex projects while coordinating with cross-functional teams.
- Fluency in English and French required
- Familiarity with GitLab or related tools, including Git, software development tools, application lifecycle management, or security and application security tools.
- Alignment with GitLab's values, with openness to transferable experience from adjacent technical or enterprise software environments.
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
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