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      <Title>Strategic Account Executive, Digital Natives - India</Title>
      <Description><![CDATA[<p>As a Strategic Account Executive for our Digital Natives segment, you&#39;ll drive GitLab&#39;s growth by helping leading digital native organisations across India adopt, implement, and expand their use of our AI-powered DevSecOps platform.</p>
<p>You&#39;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.</p>
<p>In this role, you&#39;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&#39;s field organisation so GitLab is seen as a trusted, long-term partner across the full sales cycle.</p>
<p>Some examples of our projects include building and growing a territory plan focused on large, high-growth digital native organisations, from new logo prospecting through long-term account expansion on GitLab&#39;s AI-powered DevSecOps platform.</p>
<p>Key responsibilities:</p>
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<li>Lead and grow GitLab&#39;s largest and most strategic Digital Native prospects and customers across your territory, focusing on organisations building modern software products at scale</li>
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<li>Drive the full enterprise sales cycle, from prospecting and pipeline generation through qualification, evaluation, negotiation, and close within large, complex Digital Native accounts</li>
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<li>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&#39;s AI-powered DevSecOps platform</li>
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<li>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</li>
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<li>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</li>
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<li>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</li>
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<li>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</li>
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<li>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</li>
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<p>What you&#39;ll bring:</p>
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<li>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</li>
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<li>Ability to prospect, build pipeline, and close new business while expanding strategic relationships within large digital native accounts across your territory</li>
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<li>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</li>
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<li>Proven ability to navigate and influence complex organisations, building trusted relationships with senior stakeholders across engineering, security, operations, and business teams</li>
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<li>Experience creating and executing account plans for priority accounts, including opportunity mapping, multi-threaded engagement, and disciplined deal and account management</li>
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<li>Effective communication and interpersonal skills, including comfort leading customer presentations, negotiations, and executive-level conversations and coordinating internal resources to move opportunities forward</li>
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<li>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</li>
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<li>Familiarity with forecasting, pipeline hygiene, and reporting, including sharing learnings from wins and losses to improve repeatable sales motions</li>
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<p>How GitLab Supports Full-Time Employees:</p>
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<li>Benefits to support your health, finances, and well-being</li>
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<li>Flexible Paid Time Off</li>
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<li>Team Member Resource Groups</li>
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<li>Equity Compensation &amp; Employee Stock Purchase Plan</li>
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<li>Growth and Development Fund</li>
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<li>Parental leave</li>
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<li>Home office support</li>
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      <Jobtype>full-time</Jobtype>
      <Experiencelevel>senior</Experiencelevel>
      <Workarrangement>remote</Workarrangement>
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      <Skills>DevSecOps, software development lifecycle, continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD), secure development practices, infrastructure modernization, complex B2B software sales cycles, enterprise customers, software development tools, SaaS solutions, modern software delivery, cloud and infrastructure modernization</Skills>
      <Category>Sales</Category>
      <Industry>Technology</Industry>
      <Employername>GitLab</Employername>
      <Employerlogo>https://logos.yubhub.co/about.gitlab.com.png</Employerlogo>
      <Employerdescription>GitLab is an intelligent orchestration platform for DevSecOps, trusted by over 50 million registered users and more than 50% of the Fortune 100.</Employerdescription>
      <Employerwebsite>https://about.gitlab.com/</Employerwebsite>
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      <Applyto>https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/gitlab/jobs/8435065002</Applyto>
      <Location>Remote, India</Location>
      <Country></Country>
      <Postedate>2026-04-18</Postedate>
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