Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. GitLab is the intelligent orchestration platform for DevSecOps, seeking a Public Sector Strategic Account Executive to drive growth across U.S. Federal Civilian agencies. The role involves aligning GitLab's AI-powered DevSecOps Platform with agency priorities and leading account strategy from prospecting through rollout and expansion.
Responsibilities
- Support and grow strategic prospects and customers across U.S. Federal Civilian agencies to expand qualified pipeline and account growth
- Build and execute account plans for your book of business, aligning stakeholders, buying criteria, next steps, agency modernization priorities, and long-term technology roadmaps
- Lead account direction across pre-sales and post-sales activities in partnership with Solutions Architects, Customer Success Managers, Professional Services, Marketing, partner teams, and sales management to enable rollout, adoption, and long-term customer outcomes
- Drive prospecting, pipeline generation, opportunity development, and forecast updates to grow qualified pipeline and maintain forecast accuracy across large, complex accounts
- Navigate federal procurement cycles and position FedRAMP-authorized GitLab solutions for security, compliance, modernization, and migration conversations
- Develop consultative proposals, quotes, and executive presentations that align technical capabilities with agency mission needs
- Represent the voice of the customer by submitting product ideas through GitLab's public issue tracker and contributing to win/loss analysis and internal learnings
- Educate customers on GitLab's AI capabilities, including agentic AI use cases, and align those capabilities with developer productivity, security, operational efficiency, mission impact, adoption, and expansion outcomes
Skills
- Experience selling technology solutions into U.S. Federal Civilian agencies and understanding the federal public sector landscape, procurement vehicles, compliance requirements, and agency buying cycles
- Ability to manage large, complex opportunities with multiple stakeholders and maintain strong ownership throughout the sales process
- Skill in using a consultative sales approach to link technical decisions and platform value to agency mission outcomes
- Strong communication, negotiation, presentation, and relationship-building skills, including with executive-level stakeholders
- Ability to work effectively with minimal supervision in a distributed, asynchronous environment
- Familiarity with DevSecOps, continuous integration and continuous delivery, secure software delivery, application lifecycle management, or related software development workflows, with comfort positioning FedRAMP-authorized solutions in regulated environments
- Ability to translate AI and agentic AI capabilities into clear public sector value propositions
- Alignment with GitLab's values and openness to bringing transferable experience from adjacent public sector or enterprise technology environments
Benefits
- Benefits to support your health, finances, and well-being
- Flexible Paid Time Off
- Team Member Resource Groups
- Equity Compensation & Employee Stock Purchase Plan
- Growth and Development Fund
- Parental Leave
Company Overview
GitLab is a web-based Git repository manager that offers a variety of features for software development teams. It was founded in 2014, and is headquartered in San Francisco, California, USA, with a workforce of 1001-5000 employees. Its website is http://about.gitlab.com.