Account Executive - Italy

An overview of this role

As an Account Executive, you’ll be the primary connection between GitLab and customers, working with organizations 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 a Regional Sales Director 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.

What you’ll do

• Report to a Regional Sales Director and own a broad book of business, from new prospects to growing existing accounts.
• Manage the full sales cycle for prospects, from discovery and solution alignment through negotiation and close.
• Support GitLab for prospects by clearly articulating our DevSecOps value proposition and aligning it to customer business outcomes.
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