Major Account Executive, Germany

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Responsibilities

• Manage and support GitLab’s major account(s)
• Manage the end‑to‑end sales process through engagement of appropriate resources such as Solutions Architects, Customer Success Managers, Professional Services, Marketing, Executives, Partners, and the Channel.
• Leverage solution‑selling expertise to respond efficiently to customer needs and identify business potential in order to build a strategic, long‑term partnership with your customers.
• Have a deep understanding of the customer, including an understanding of their performance metrics and develop plans in anticipation of the customer’s business strategies and goals.
• Expand knowledge of industry as well as the competitive posture of the company.
• Contribute to root cause analysis on wins/losses.
• Communicate lessons learned to the team, including account managers, the marketing team, and the technical team.
• Provide account leadership and direction in the pre‑ and post‑sales process.
• Conduct sales activities including prospecting and developing opportunities in major 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.

Requirements

• Experience selling into highly complex organizations.
• Demonstrated consistent results and overachievement of quota.
• Excellent communication and presentation skills; comfortable presenting to C‑Level executives.
• Experience with solutions selling and positioning value to customers based on their needs.
• Deep understanding of Git, Software Development Tools, Application Lifecycle Management.
• 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.

Please note that we welcome interest from candidates with varying levels of experience; many successful candidates do not meet every single requirement. If you're excited about this role, please apply and allow our recruiters to assess your application.

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