Commercial Account Executive - Mid-Market, Central

Remote, US

GitLab is an open core software company that develops the most comprehensive AI-powered DevSecOps Platform (https://about.gitlab.com/solutions/devops-platform) , used by more than 100,000 organizations. Our mission (https://about.gitlab.com/company/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 (https://about.gitlab.com/handbook/using-gitlab-at-gitlab) on our product and staying aligned with our values (https://about.gitlab.com/handbook/values) . Learn more about Life at GitLab (https://vimeo.com/gitlab/gettoknowgitlab) .

Midmarket Account Executives are the primary point of contact between prospective and existing customers of GitLab within a space defined as mid-market, which currently works with companies that employ between 100 to 1,999 employees. These GitLab team members manage the spectrum of project sizes, ranging from small fast growing teams in smaller agile organizations to complex enterprise projects advising on the journey with GitLab to achieve specific business outcomes.

Mid-Market AEs work closely in tandem with the business development team and sales management to manage a broad book of business spread over a large opportunity value range and focus on exceeding client expectations.

What you'll do

• Meet or exceed quota while fostering strong customer relationships

• Articulate the value of GitLab to our Mid Market (https://handbook.gitlab.com/handbook/sales/#market-segmentation) prospects and customers in the US Central region

• Take ownership of and act as the CEO for the book of business in your territory:

• Document the buying criteria & process, next steps & owners

• Build a strong pipeline through a healthy cadence of prospecting activity

• Prospect and close new business to expand your territory

• Ensure adoption of our solutions and do your best to avoid churn and contraction

• Work and collaborate with our Partner ecosystem to drive new business and value for our customers

• Create an accurate forecast for each quarter against your plan/budget

• Drive attendance to our events, which you will be part of to further network with current and prospective customers

• Contribute to root cause analyses on wins/losses.

• Communicate lessons learned to the team, including account managers, the marketing team, and the technical team.

• Contribute to documenting improvements in our sales handbook (https://handbook.gitlab.com/handbook/sales/)

• Collaborate with cross-functional teams, such as Customer Success, Renewals, Sales Development, etc. to provide account leadership, ensuring a good outcome for our customers in the pre- and post-sales process

• Be the voice of the customer by contributing product ideas to our public issue tracker (https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ee/issues)

• Master MEDPICC and Command of the Message on all opportunities

What you'll bring

• A true desire to see customers benefit from the investment they make with GitLab

• Demonstrated progressive experience with SaaS sales through pitching on value to development team (preferably devops)

• Interest in GitLab, and open source software

• Ability to leverage established relationships and proven sales techniques for success

• Effective communicator, strong interpersonal skills

• Motivated, driven and results oriented

• Excellent negotiation, presentation and closing skills

• Preferred experience with Git, Software Development Tools, Application Lifecycle Management

• You share our values (https://handbook.gitlab.com/handbook/values/) , and work in accordance with those values.

• Ability to travel regularly to meet with customers in person and comply with the company’s travel policy (https://handbook.gitlab.com/handbook/travel/)

Compensation

To view the full job description and its compensation calculator, view our handbook. The compensation calculator can be found towards the bottom of the page.

Additional details about our process can be found on our hiring page (https://about.gitlab.com/handbook/hiring/interviewing/) .

Remote-Global

The base salary range for this role’s listed level is currently for residents of listed locations only. Grade level and salary ranges are determined through interviews and a review of education, experience, knowledge, skills, abilities of the applicant, equity with other team members, and alignment with market data. See more information on our benefits (https://about.gitlab.com/handbook/total-rewards/benefits/general-and-entity-benefits/) and equity (https://about.gitlab.com/handbook/stock-options/) . Sales roles are also eligible for incentive pay targeted at up to 100% of the offered base salary.

California/Colorado/Hawaii/New Jersey/New York/Washington/DC pay range

$66,300-$117,000USD

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