Enterprise Account Executive - DACH · GitLab

Fri, 24 Apr 2026 12:13:05 GMT
Sales

GitLab · Remote, Germany · remote

As a Enterprise Account Executive, you'll be the primary connection between GitLab and mid-market customers, working with organisations of up to 4,000 team members to help them adopt and expand the world's most comprehensive AI-powered DevSecOps platform.

You'll own a broad book of business across a wide range of opportunity sizes, guiding small, fast-growing teams as well as more complex projects as they modernize their software delivery with GitLab.

Reporting to an Area Sales Manager and partnering closely with business development, marketing, and technical teams, you'll run the full sales process: shaping the customer's journey, documenting buying criteria and processes, ensuring accurate pipeline based on evidence, and sharing root-cause insights on wins and losses.

In your first year, you'll focus on building trusted relationships, delivering meaningful business outcomes for customers, and being the voice of the customer internally by contributing ideas to our public issue tracker and improving our sales handbook.

Key responsibilities include:

Reporting to an Area Sales Manager and owning a broad book of Enterprise business, from new prospects to growing existing accounts.

Managing the full sales cycle for Enterprise prospects, from discovery and solution alignment through negotiation and close.

Supporting GitLab for Enterprise prospects by clearly articulating our DevSecOps value proposition and aligning it to customer business outcomes.

Analyzing wins and losses, contributing to root cause analyses, and sharing lessons learned with account managers, marketing, and technical teams.

Documenting and maintaining accurate buying criteria, buying processes, next steps, and owners to ensure a reliable, evidence-based pipeline.

Contributing to improving our sales handbook and processes by documenting best practices and opportunities for refinement.

Providing account leadership and direction across pre- and post-sales, partnering closely with technical teams and customer success.

Representing the voice of the customer by contributing product feedback and ideas to our public issue tracker.

You'll bring:

Proven success in software sales, ideally in a Enterprise market context, managing a varied book of business.

Ability to guide customers through the full buying journey, including defining buying criteria, mapping buying processes, and driving clear next steps.

Effective communication and interpersonal skills to collaborate with business development, marketing, technical teams, and sales management.

Experience documenting and maintaining accurate pipeline data and account plans based on evidence rather than assumptions.

Skill in conducting and contributing to win/loss and root cause analyses, and sharing insights to improve team performance and processes.

Proficiency in negotiation, presenting to customer stakeholders, and leading commercial discussions to close opportunities.

Interest in GitLab, open source software, and preferably familiarity with Git, software development tools, or application lifecycle management.

Alignment with GitLab's values and an interest in contributing from diverse or transferable sales backgrounds, with willingness to travel in line with company policy.

Fluent German language skills.