Strategic Account Executive - Spain
Job description
A Strategic Account Executive role at GitLab, owning a portfolio of strategic and large enterprise customers and prospects in Spain and helping them realize the full value of GitLab's AI-powered DevSecOps platform. The role involves full-cycle, complex sales and expansion within a regional Strategic Sales team.
At a glance
- Employment
- Full-time
- Work mode
- Remote · Spain
What you'll do
- Own a portfolio of strategic and large enterprise accounts in Spain, 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
Regional Strategic Sales team
Focuses on GitLab's largest and most complex customers in Spain, 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
- Software / DevSecOps
- 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