Commercial Account Executive Job Family
Commercial Account Executive - Mid-Market
Job Grade
The Commercial Account Executive- Mid-Market is a grade 7.
Responsibilities
- Meet or exceed quota while fostering strong customer relationships
- Articulate the value of GitLab to our Mid Market prospects and customers
- Take ownership of and act as the CEO for the book of business in your territory:
- Document the buying criteria & process, next steps & owners
- Build a strong pipeline through a healthy cadence of prospecting activity
- Prospect and close new business to expand your territory
- Ensure adoption of our solutions and do your best to avoid churn and contraction
- Work and collaborate with our Partner ecosystem to drive new business and value for our customers
- Create an accurate forecast for each quarter against your plan/budget
- Drive attendance to our events, which you will be part of to further network with current and prospective customers
- Contribute to root cause analyses on wins/losses.
- Communicate lessons learned to the team, including account managers, the marketing team, and the technical team.
- Contribute to documenting improvements in our sales handbook
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams, such as Customer Success, Renewals, Sales Development, etc. to provide account leadership, ensuring a good outcome for our customers in the pre- and post-sales process
- Be the voice of the customer by contributing product ideas to our public issue tracker
- Master MEDPICC and Command of the Message on all opportunities
Requirements
- A true desire to see customers benefit from the investment they make with GitLab
- Demonstrated progressive experience with Software sales through pitching on value
- Interest in GitLab, and open source software
- Ability to leverage established relationships and proven sales techniques for success
- Effective communicator, 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 travel regularly to meet with customers in person and comply with the company’s travel policy
Commercial Account Executive - Named
The Commercial Account Executive- Named is a grade 7.
Responsibilities
- Meet or exceed quota while fostering strong customer relationships
- Take ownership of and act as the CEO for your book of business of key accounts:
- Partner with Customers to build out a strategy to further adopt feature sets to ensure Key Accounts see the ROI and value in our tooling, protecting against churn
- Develop and execute on an account plan enabling you to meet or exceed your quota
- Expand your Key Accounts by more than the standard expansion rate
- Build a strong pipeline through a healthy cadence of prospecting activity
- Work and collaborate with our Partner ecosystem to drive new business and value for our customers
- Create an accurate forecast for each quarter against your plan/budget
- Contribute to root cause analyses on wins/losses.
- Communicate lessons learned to the team, including account managers, the marketing team, and the technical team
- Contribute to documenting improvements in our sales handbook
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams, such as Customer Success, Renewals, Sales Development, etc. to provide account leadership, ensuring a good outcome for our customers in the pre- and post-sales process
- Be the voice of the customer by contributing product ideas to our public issue tracker
- Master MEDPICC and Command of the Message on all opportunities
Requirements
- Demonstrated progressive experience with Software sales, with experience selling to Executives and increasing nARR of current buying clients to Top Tier Solutions
- Progressive experience building and owning a territory of business
- A true desire to see customers benefit from the investment they make with GitLab
- Excellence in operational rigor when it comes to Deal Management in Salesforce as well as Clari Forecasting
- Ability to leverage established relationships and proven sales techniques for success
- Effective communicator, strong interpersonal skills
- Motivated self-starter who is 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 travel if needed and comply with the company’s travel policy
Performance Indicators
As with all roles in the Sales Department the Strategic Account Executive participates in the Sales KPIs.
Career Ladder
The progression of the Commercial Account Executive job family is to move from Commercial Account Executive - Mid-Market to either the Commercial Account Executive - Named role, Strategic Account Executive job family or the Sales Management job family.
About GitLab
GitLab Inc. is a company based on the GitLab open-source project. GitLab is a community project to which over 2,200 people worldwide have contributed. We are an active participant in this community, trying to serve its needs and lead by example. We have one vision: everyone can contribute to all digital content, and our mission is to change all creative work from read-only to read-write so that everyone can contribute.
We value results, transparency, sharing, freedom, efficiency, self-learning, frugality, collaboration, directness, kindness, diversity, inclusion and belonging, boring solutions, and quirkiness. If these values match your personality, work ethic, and personal goals, we encourage you to visit our primer to learn more. Open source is our culture, our way of life, our story, and what makes us truly unique.
Top 10 Reasons to Work for GitLab:
- Mission: Everyone can contribute
- Results: Fast growth, ambitious vision
- Flexible Work Hours: Plan your day so you are there for other people & have time for personal interests
- Transparency: Over 2,000 webpages in GitLab handbook, GitLab Unfiltered YouTube channel
- Iteration: Empower people to be effective & have an impact, Merge Request rate, We dogfood our own product, Directly responsible individuals
- Diversity, Inclusion & Belonging: A focus on gender parity, Team Member Resource Groups, other initiatives
- Collaboration: Kindness, saying thanks, intentionally organize informal communication, no ego
- Total Rewards: Competitive market rates for compensation, Equity compensation, global benefits (inclusive of office equipment)
- Work/Life Harmony: Flexible workday, Family and Friends days
- Remote Done Right: One of the world's largest all-remote companies, prolific inventor of remote best practices
See our culture page for more!
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