Strategic Account Leader, North Central (Ohio) at GitLab Inc.

Responsibilities

• Strategic Account Leader will report to an Area Sales Manager or Regional Director.
• Act as a primary point of contact and the face of GitLab for our strategic and large prospects within Ohio, Illinois and/or Indiana.
• 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 large/strategic 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
• Take ownership of your book of business
• document the buying criteria
• document the buying process
• document next steps and owners
• ensure pipeline accuracy based on evidence and not hope
• Contribute to documenting improvements in our sales handbook .
• Be the voice of the customer by contributing product ideas to our public issue tracker
• Travel as necessary to accounts in order to develop relationships and close large opportunities
• Generate qualified leads and develop new customers in conjunction with our strategic channel partners in exceeding quota.
• Expand knowledge of industry as well as the competitive posture of the company
• Prepare activity and forecast reports as requested
• Update and maintain Sales’ database as appropriate
• 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.
• Respond to RFP's and follow up with prospects.
• Develop an account plan to sell to customers based on their business needs.
• Build and strengthen the business relationship with current accounts and new prospects.
• Recommend marketing strategies.

Requirements

• A true desire to see customers benefit from the investment they make with you
• Able to provide high degree of major account management and control
• Work under minimal supervision on complex projects
• Proven success with B2B software sales
• Experience selling into large organizations
• Interest in GitLab, and open source software
• Ability to leverage established relationships and proven sales techniques for success
• Effective communicator (written/verbal), 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 , and work in accordance with those values.
• Ability to use GitLab

Hiring Process

Additional details about our process can be found on our hiring page .

Top 10 Reasons To Work For GitLab

• Work with helpful, kind, motivated, and talented people.
• Work remote so you have no commute and are free to travel and move.
• Have flexible work hours so you are there for other people and free to plan the day how you like.
• Everyone works remote, but you don't feel remote. We don't have a head office, so you're not in a satellite office.
• Work on open source software so you can interact with a large community and can show your work.
• Work on a product you use every day: we drink our own wine.
• Work on a product used by lots of people that care about what you do.
• As a company we contribute more than we take, most of our work is released as the open source GitLab CE.
• Focused on results, not on long hours, so that you can have a life and don't burn out.
• Open internal processes: know what you're getting in to and be assured we're thoughtful and effective.

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