Regional Director - UK/I Strategic Accounts

As a Regional Director, UK/I Strategic Accounts on GitLab's Sales team, you'll lead a regional strategic sales organization focused on driving growth across the UK and Ireland. You'll be responsible for building and executing the regional sales strategy, growing existing customer relationships, expanding the client base, and helping your team deliver against revenue goals. You'll work closely with cross-functional partners across Marketing, Customer Success, Ecosystems, and Sales to create a strong customer experience and bring GitLab's value to strategic accounts across the region.

Some examples of our projects:

• Developing and executing regional sales plans that align territory priorities, account growth, forecasting, and team performance to support GitLab's revenue goals
• Building strong relationships with key decision-makers across strategic accounts while coaching a regional sales team to grow pipeline, close complex opportunities, and expand customer value

What you'll do

• Leads and executes best-in-class sales strategies that exceed revenue and growth targets for the team. Ensures the sales team consistently delivers high performance, setting the standard for excellence across the organization
• Develops and executes strategies focused on expanding the client base within the territory
• Maintains close contact with assigned accounts by establishing strong relationships with key decision makers. Develops and maintains a strong executive call plan and relationship with the CXO's & Program level leaders for the account set
• Analyzes market dynamics in an effort to maximize existing successes and to create new sales growth opportunities
• Drives the transformation to a solution-selling approach. Focuses on growing our top-tier client base and positioning our offerings as transformational solutions. Cultivates a mindset that goes beyond product selling to consultative, long-term client partnerships.
• Prioritises customer adoption and consumption. Works directly with customers to ensure that they derive maximum value from our solutions. Support the team in fostering long-term relationships and driving customer success.
• Leads efforts to explore and execute verticalisation as a model for scaling. Provide strong strategic direction for the development of vertical sales teams and specialized market approaches.
• Prepares forecasts, territory/industry management, and growth plans
• Educates team on significant industry factors including competitive products, regulations, trends, customer needs, and pricing
• Establishes and reports on metrics to measure team performance; correct deficiencies where necessary
• Ensures that the sales plan is aligned with and supports the corporate revenue goal
• Invests time weekly to build and engage a pipeline of top talent for potential future hires
• Manages a team of 5-10 Strategic Account Executives; fosters a successful and positive team environment.
• Hires, coaches and develops top talent into the team
• Drives a high performing sales organisation
• Leads by example whilst being a role model for the team
• Empowers individuals to grow their own business

What you'll bring

• Demonstrated progressive experience in field sales, operations and leadership
• Data-informed sales management skills, including building repeatable processes, pipeline discipline, and forecast accuracy using Salesforce (or a similar CRM).
• Experience selling complex, high-value software solutions and expanding customer relationships within commercial accounts.
• Experience selling to Fortune 500; willingness to "roll up your sleeves" and sell
• Demonstrated progressive experience leading field sales teams using the MEDDPICC or similar sales methodology.
• Strong solution selling experience and experience elevating the team to be solution sellers
• Proven track record of meeting or exceeding performance objectives (revenue targets, pipeline targets, etc.)
• Ability to exercise effective judgment, sensitivity, creativity to changing needs and situations; ability to handle a fast-paced environment and challenging workload
• Strong relationship building and negotiation skills
• Strong presentation skills; Executive level communication skills (both written and verbal) and the ability to mentor others
• You share our values, and work in accordance with those values.
• Leadership at GitLab
• Ability to use GitLab

About the team

The Regional Director reports to the Area Vice President of GitLab North Region. The Sales team at GitLab helps organizations adopt the most comprehensive AI-powered DevSecOps platform while building long-term customer relationships rooted in trust, value, and measurable outcomes.

How GitLab will support you

• 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 
• Home office support

Please note that we welcome interest from candidates with varying levels of experience; many successful candidates do not meet every single requirement. Additionally, studies have shown that people from underrepresented groups are less likely to apply to a job unless they meet every single qualification. If you're excited about this role, please apply and allow our recruiters to assess your application.

You will act as a primary point of contact and the face of GitLab for our prospects and customers within the Public Sector in the UK

Key Role Purpose

To drive GitLab platform adoption across public sector organizations, orchestrating successful partner relationships and direct engagement, ensuring alignment with government digital transformation initiatives.

What You'll Do

• Lead GitLab platform enterprise sales across diverse public sector portfolio 
• Develop and execute multi-year account strategies using MEDDPICC methodology
• Build C-level relationships across government and private sector institutions
• Drive platform adoption through centers of excellence
• Manage complex procurement processes across government/public sector frameworks
• Create sector-specific value propositions and business cases

Territory Development & Scale

• Build and execute strategic territory plan across public sector segments
• Create scalable prospecting and account development strategies
• Implement repeatable sector plays and reference programs
• Manage resource allocation across complex account portfolio
• Drive territory growth through new logo acquisition and expansion
• Develop territory-specific partner ecosystems

Partner Ecosystem Management

• Drive revenue through strategic system integrators
• Develop relationships with regional service providers
• Coordinate with cloud provider partnerships (AWS, Azure, GCP)
• Enable managed service provider success
• Lead joint account planning and execution
• Create scalable partner enablement programs

What You'll Bring

• Proven UK public sector software sales experience
• Deep understanding of public sector digital transformation initiatives
• Experience with government framework procurement
• Multi-stakeholder engagement in complex organizations

Technical Ecosystem Knowledge

• DevSecOps platform or a similar type of complex technology sales experience
• Understanding of complementary technologies

Sales Methodology & Process

• MEDDPICC methodology mastery and implementation
• Complex deal management experience
• Territory planning and scaling expertise
• Partner orchestration capability
• Proven forecast accuracy using MEDDPICC scoring
• Track record of complex deal closure
• Experience building territories from ground up
• Willingness to travel 
• Experience with open source solutions
• Strong presentation and negotiation skills
• Demonstrable territory management tool proficiency
• Track record of building scalable territory models

An overview of this role

As a Major Account Executive, you will own a portfolio of strategic customers and prospects across Germany, helping them get the most value from GitLab’s AI-powered DevSecOps platform. You’ll break into net new enterprise accounts and expand GitLab’s footprint within existing customers, using a consultative approach to understand their business needs and guide successful adoption and expansion of GitLab. You’ll work closely with pre- and post-sales teams and strategic channel partners to drive full-cycle sales, from prospecting and qualification through rollout, usage, and long-term growth, while acting as the voice of your customers by feeding their feedback and product ideas into GitLab’s public issue tracker.

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.
• Has a deep understanding of the customer, including an understanding of their performance metrics and develops 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 prospect 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 with 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

Responsibilities

• Supports GitLab’s strategic large prospects and customers.
• Provide account leadership and direction in the pre- and post-sales process
• Conduct sales activities including prospecting and developing opportunities in large/strategic accounts
• Ensure the successful rollout and adoption of GitLab products through strong account management activities and coordination with pre-and-post sales and support resources
• Be the voice of the customer by contributing product ideas to our public issue tracker
• Generate qualified leads and develop new customers in conjunction with our strategic channel partners .
• Expand knowledge of industry as well as the competitive posture of the company
• Prepare activity and forecast reports
• Contribute to root cause analysis on wins/losses.
• Communicate lessons learned to the team, including account managers, the marketing team, and the technical team
• Assist sales management in conveying customer needs to product managers, and technical support staff
• Utilize a consultative approach, discuss business issues with prospect 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.
• Collaborate with Marketing on marketing strategies.

Requirements

• A true desire to see customers benefit from the investment they make with you
• Able to provide high degree of account management and control
• Work under minimal supervision on complex projects
• Experience selling into large organizations
• Ability to leverage established relationships and proven sales techniques for success
• Excellent negotiation, presentation and closing skills
• Preferred experience with 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

The confidence gap exists. The above list is intended to show the kinds of experience and qualities we’re looking for. If you’re reading this, do not match all of the requirements, and are hesitant to apply, we encourage you to make an application despite your hesitations.

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An overview of this role

As the Director of Regional Sales for Italy, you'll take ownership of building and leading our Italian sales presence. You'll drive revenue growth, implement disciplined sales processes and technology, and partner across account management, customer success, marketing, product, engineering, and operations to deliver exceptional customer experiences. You'll report to the VP of Sales and balance hands-on field leadership with strategic vision. You'll stay close to key accounts, develop your sales team, and expand our client base. In this role, you'll be passionate about open source software, drive repeatable sales processes, and influence GitLab's growth by establishing disciplined go-to-market strategies, developing sales talent, and executing against ambitious bookings targets in Italy.

What you’ll do

• Lead the growth of GitLab's business in Italy, taking ownership for building the country plan, pipeline discipline, and day-to-day execution to achieve or exceed quarterly bookings and ARR growth targets.
• Manage, coach, and develop a small team of Account Executives, staying close to the field, joining customer meetings, and modeling hands-on, high-activity sales behavior.
• Drive new logo acquisition across a broad base of medium-sized Italian businesses while shaping a long-term strategy to engage larger accounts.
• Build GitLab’s reputation in the Italian market by partnering with marketing, business development, and local networks to generate pipeline and increase market awareness.
• Establish clear operating rhythms, sales processes, and methodologies that bring structure, organization, and accountability to the team without losing agility.
• Collaborate with regional sales leaders and cross-functional partners across account management, customer success, marketing, product, engineering, and operations to align territory coverage, share best practices, and ensure consistent execution across the region.
• Develop and maintain strong relationships with key accounts at the executive level (CXO and program level), positioning GitLab as a strategic partner and identifying expansion opportunities.
• Analyze pipeline, forecast, and performance data to identify gaps and opportunities, adjust plans so the team focuses on the highest-impact activities, and represent the Italian business internally by sharing insights on market trends, customer needs, and resource requirements to inform regional strategy.

What you’ll bring

• Experience building and leading high-performing sales teams, ideally within Italy, with a focus on coaching and developing talent.
• Ability to design and execute a country go-to-market plan, including pipeline generation discipline, territory coverage, and disciplined deal execution.
• Strength in balancing hands-on field work with strategic leadership, staying close to customers while managing day-to-day operations.
• Familiarity with B2B software or technology sales and open source/DevSecOps concepts, with enthusiasm for learning GitLab’s platform and building long-term market presence.
• Skills in creating structure, setting clear expectations, and driving organized, data-informed sales processes, including use of MEDDPICC or similar methodologies.
• Strong relationship-building skills, with the ability to create trust and empathy with both customers and GitLab team members at all levels.
• Comfort operating in a dynamic, growth-focused, all-remote environment, acting as a self-directed “manager of one” and using Salesforce.com or similar CRM and marketing automation systems to build trackable, repeatable sales processes.

About the team

You’ll join a regional sales organization focused on growing GitLab’s presence across Italy, working closely with Account Executives and cross-functional partners in account management, customer success, marketing, product, engineering, and operations. The team is all-remote and collaborates asynchronously across time zones to build pipeline, manage complex sales cycles, and deliver consistent customer experiences. You’ll help shape how we organize coverage, implement disciplined sales processes, and bring structure to a high-growth region while staying aligned with global sales strategy and GitLab’s values of transparency, collaboration, and results.

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An overview of this role

As the Director of Regional Sales for the Alps region, you’ll own the strategy and execution to grow GitLab’s presence across Switzerland and Austria. You’ll build and lead a high-performing Account Executive team, establish disciplined, data-informed sales processes, and stay close to the field by engaging directly with key accounts. Reporting to the VP of Sales, you’ll work across account management, customer success, marketing, product, engineering, and operations to deliver a consistent, high-quality experience for GitLab customers and expand our footprint. In this role, you’ll help shape GitLab’s go-to-market motion in the Alps region, drive new logo acquisition and expansion, and influence how we bring our open source and DevSecOps story to a broad range of customers while executing against ambitious bookings and ARR growth targets.

What you’ll do

• Lead the growth of GitLab’s business in the Alps region by building the regional sales plan, enforcing pipeline discipline, and driving day-to-day execution to meet quarterly bookings and ARR targets.
• Manage, coach, and develop a team of Account Executives, joining customer meetings and modeling consistent, high-activity, field-focused sales behavior.
• Drive new logo acquisition across a broad base of medium-sized businesses in the Alps region while shaping and executing a long-term strategy for larger, more complex accounts.
• Build GitLab’s reputation the Alps market by partnering with marketing, business development, and local networks to generate qualified pipeline and deepen market awareness.
• Establish clear operating rhythms, sales processes, and methodologies (such as MEDDPICC or similar) that create structure, accountability, and repeatability without sacrificing agility.
• Collaborate with regional sales leaders and cross-functional partners in account management, customer success, marketing, product, engineering, and operations to align coverage, share best practices, and ensure consistent execution.
• Develop and maintain executive-level relationships with key accounts, positioning GitLab as a strategic partner and uncovering expansion and renewal opportunities.
• Analyze pipeline, forecast, and performance data to identify gaps and opportunities, adjust regional plans to focus on the highest-impact activities, and represent the Alps business internally with clear insights on market trends and customer needs.

What you’ll bring

• Experience building and leading high-performing sales teams in a regional or multi-country context, with a focus on coaching, field engagement, and talent development.
• Ability to design and execute a regional go-to-market plan, including pipeline generation discipline, territory coverage, and structured deal execution.
• Familiarity with B2B software or technology sales and concepts related to open source and DevSecOps, with interest in deepening knowledge of GitLab’s platform.
• Skills in creating structure and clarity, setting expectations, and driving organized, data-informed sales processes, including the use of MEDDPICC or similar methodologies.
• Demonstrated strength in developing trusted relationships with senior customer stakeholders, including executive-level contacts, to support new business and expansion.
• Comfort operating in a dynamic, growth-focused, all-remote environment, acting as a self-directed “manager of one” and using Salesforce.com or similar CRM and marketing tools.
• Openness to collaborating across account management, customer success, marketing, product, engineering, and operations, with the ability to work effectively with distributed teams.
• Willingness to apply transferable leadership and sales skills from related markets or industries, even if direct Alps market experience differs, in alignment with GitLab’s inclusive hiring approach.

About the team

You’ll join a regional sales organization focused on growing GitLab’s presence across the Alps region, working closely with Account Executives and cross-functional partners in account management, customer success, marketing, product, engineering, and operations. The team is all-remote and collaborates asynchronously across time zones to build pipeline, manage complex sales cycles, and deliver consistent customer experiences. You’ll help shape how we organize coverage, implement disciplined sales processes, and bring structure to a high-growth region while staying aligned with global sales strategy and GitLab’s values of transparency, collaboration, and results.

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An overview of this role

As a Strategic Account Executive, you will own a portfolio of strategic and large customers and prospects in Germany, helping them get the most value from GitLab’s AI-powered DevSecOps platform. You’ll break into net new enterprise accounts and expand GitLab’s footprint within existing customers, using a consultative approach to understand their business needs and guide successful adoption and expansion of GitLab. You’ll work closely with pre- and post-sales teams and strategic channel partners to drive full-cycle sales, from prospecting and qualification through rollout, usage, and long-term growth, while acting as the voice of your customers by feeding their feedback and product ideas into GitLab’s public issue tracker.

What you’ll do

• Own a portfolio of strategic and enterprise accounts in Germany, driving both net-new customer acquisition and expansion within existing customers.
• Lead complex sales cycles from prospecting and qualification through negotiation and close, using a consultative approach grounded in customer business needs.
• Develop and execute structured account plans that map customer priorities to GitLab’s DevSecOps and AI-powered platform capabilities.
• Collaborate closely with pre-sales, customer success, support, and strategic channel partners to ensure successful evaluations, rollouts, and long-term adoption of GitLab.
• Act as the voice of the customer by sharing feedback and product ideas through GitLab’s public issue tracker and with internal stakeholders.
• Generate and nurture qualified pipeline through targeted outreach, joint activities with channel partners, and effective use of existing relationships.
• Prepare and maintain accurate activity, pipeline, and forecast reports, and contribute to win/loss analysis to continuously improve sales execution.
• Partner with Marketing to shape and execute account-based and regional campaigns that support pipeline generation and expansion in your territory.

What you’ll bring

• Experience owning and growing large, complex accounts, including both new business development and expansion within existing customers.
• Background selling into strategic or enterprise organizations, ideally within software, developer tools, or related technology environments.
• Ability to run a consultative sales process, from prospecting and discovery through proposal, negotiation, and closing.
• Demonstrated skill in account planning, forecast management, and coordinating cross-functional resources across pre-sales, post-sales, and support.
• Effective communicator who can translate customer needs into clear feedback for product, marketing, and technical teams.
• Comfortable discussing business value with senior stakeholders and aligning solutions to customer goals and challenges.
• Familiarity with Git, software development tools, or application lifecycle management, and ability to learn GitLab’s platform.
• Alignment with GitLab’s values and openness to bringing transferable experience from different industries or backgrounds.

About the team

You’ll join a regional Strategic Sales team that focuses on our largest and most complex customers in Germany, with a specific focus on the South. We own a defined list of strategic prospect and existing accounts and collaborate closely with Solutions Architects, Customer Success, Support, and Channel partners to drive both new customer acquisition and expansion of GitLab’s footprint. Our Strategic Sales team spend a lot of time collaborating and meeting with customers, so travel will be expected. We are focused on helping enterprise customers adopt the GitLab DevSecOps platform at scale, navigating complex buying centers, and shaping long-term partnerships that support customers’ business and technology goals.

An overview of this role

As a Major Account Executive (Alps), you will own a portfolio of strategic customers and prospects in Austria & Switzerland, helping them get the most value from GitLab’s AI-powered DevSecOps platform. You’ll break into net new enterprise accounts and expand GitLab’s footprint within existing customers, using a consultative approach to understand their business needs and guide successful adoption and expansion of GitLab. You’ll work closely with pre- and post-sales teams and strategic channel partners to drive full-cycle sales, from prospecting and qualification through rollout, usage, and long-term growth, while acting as the voice of your customers by feeding their feedback and product ideas into GitLab’s public issue tracker.

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.
• Has a deep understanding of the customer, including an understanding of their performance metrics and develops 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 prospect 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

• French and German: Full professional proficiency
• Experience selling into highly complex organisations
• 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 with 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

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