Strategic Account Executive

Strategic Account Executive, Digital Natives - India

GitLab is the intelligent orchestration platform for DevSecOps. GitLab enables organizations to increase developer productivity, improve operational efficiency, reduce security and compliance risk, and accelerate digital transformation. More than 50 million registered users and more than 50% of the Fortune 100* trust GitLab to ship better, more secure software faster.

The same principles built into our products are reflected in how our team works: we embrace AI as a core productivity multiplier, with all team members expected to incorporate AI into their daily workflows to drive efficiency, innovation, and impact. GitLab is where careers accelerate, innovation flourishes, and every voice is valued. Our high-performance culture is driven by our values and continuous knowledge exchange, enabling our team members to reach their full potential while collaborating with industry leaders to solve complex problems. Co-create the future with us as we build technology that transforms how the world develops software.

About the Role

As a Strategic Account Executive for our Digital Natives segment, you'll drive GitLab's growth by helping leading digital native organisations across India adopt, implement, and expand their use of our AI-powered DevSecOps platform. You'll focus on large, complex enterprise accounts, guiding customers through modernisation and DevSecOps transformations while driving pipeline generation that translates into measurable Net ARR and long-term expansion.

In this role, you'll use your understanding of the software development lifecycle, including continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) automation, secure development practices, and infrastructure modernisation, to connect customer stakeholders with GitLab's field organisation so GitLab is seen as a trusted, long-term partner across the full sales cycle. In your first year, you'll be expected to build a strong digital natives portfolio across your territory, create repeatable sales motions aligned to how modern product and engineering organisations buy and adopt platforms, and consistently forecast and report on deal progress and account health.

What you'll do

• Lead and grow GitLab's largest and most strategic Digital Native prospects and customers across your territory, focusing on organisations building modern software products at scale.
• Drive the full enterprise sales cycle, from prospecting and pipeline generation through qualification, evaluation, negotiation, and close within large, complex Digital Native accounts.
• Provide hands-on account leadership and direction throughout the pre- and post-sales process to ensure a smooth customer experience and strong adoption of GitLab's AI-powered DevSecOps platform.
• Partner closely with Sales Development Representatives, Solutions Architects, Customer Success, and strategic channel partners to generate qualified opportunities, co-sell, and execute account strategies that drive new business and expansion within Digital Native organisations.
• Develop and maintain detailed account plans for priority Digital Native customers, including opportunity mapping, stakeholder alignment, and multi-threaded engagement across engineering, security, platform, and business leaders.
• Coordinate and facilitate the involvement of cross-functional GitLab team members, including sales leadership, marketing, product, and support, to progress opportunities and deliver an excellent customer experience.
• Prepare activity and forecast reports, contribute to forecasting and pipeline reviews, and share root cause analysis and lessons learned from wins and losses with account managers, marketing, and technical teams.
• Act as the voice of the customer by contributing product ideas to our public issue tracker, preparing and delivering customer-facing and internal presentations, quotes, proposals, and formal sales documents that address Digital Native business challenges and clearly communicate long-term value and outcomes.

What you'll bring

• Deep experience driving complex B2B software sales cycles with enterprise customers, ideally in DevSecOps, software development tools, or adjacent SaaS solutions that support the software development lifecycle.
• Ability to prospect, build pipeline, and close new business while expanding strategic relationships within large digital native accounts across your territory.
• Strong understanding of modern software delivery, including continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD), secure development practices, and cloud and infrastructure modernization, with the ability to connect platform capabilities to customer outcomes.
• Proven ability to navigate and influence complex organisations, building trusted relationships with senior stakeholders across engineering, security, operations, and business teams.
• Experience creating and executing account plans for priority accounts, including opportunity mapping, multi-threaded engagement, and disciplined deal and account management.
• Effective communication and interpersonal skills, including comfort leading customer presentations, negotiations, and executive-level conversations and coordinating internal resources to move opportunities forward.
• Capacity to work autonomously and asynchronously in a fully remote environment while staying aligned to shared goals, processes, and forecasting expectations across the broader GitLab team.
• Familiarity with forecasting, pipeline hygiene, and reporting, including sharing learnings from wins and losses to improve repeatable sales motions.

How GitLab Supports Full-Time Employees

• 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.

GitLab hires new team members in countries around the world. All of our roles are remote, however some roles may carry specific location-based eligibility requirements. Our Talent Acquisition team can help answer any questions about location after starting the recruiting process.

Key skills/competency

• Strategic Account Executive
• Digital Natives
• DevSecOps
• Enterprise Sales
• Pipeline Generation
• Account Management
• B2B Software Sales
• CI/CD
• SaaS Solutions
• Remote Work