Strategic Account Executive, Digital Natives - India

GitLab is the intelligent orchestration platform for DevSecOps. GitLab enables organizations to increase developer productivity, improve operational efficiency, reduce security and compliance risk, and accelerate digital transformation. More than 50 million registered users and more than 50% of the Fortune 100* trust GitLab to ship better, more secure software faster. The same principles built into our products are reflected in how our team works: we embrace AI as a core productivity multiplier, with all team members expected to incorporate AI into their daily workflows to drive efficiency, innovation, and impact. GitLab is where careers accelerate, innovation flourishes, and every voice is valued. Our high-performance culture is driven by our values and continuous knowledge exchange, enabling our team members to reach their full potential while collaborating with industry leaders to solve complex problems. Co-create the future with us as we build technology that transforms how the world develops software. *Fortune 500® is a registered trademark of Fortune Media IP Limited, used under license. Claim based on GitLab data. Fortune 100 refers to the top 20% ranked companies in the 2025 Fortune 500 list, published in June 2025. Fortune and Fortune Media IP Limited are not affiliated with, and do not endorse products or services of GitLab. Strategic Account Executive - Digital Natives As a Strategic Account Executive for our Digital Natives segment, you'll drive GitLab's growth by helping leading digital native organisations across India adopt, implement, and expand their use of our AI-powered DevSecOps platform. You'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. In this role, you'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's field organisation so GitLab is seen as a trusted, long-term partner across the full sales cycle. In your first year, you'll be expected to build a strong digital natives portfolio across your territory, create repeatable sales motions aligned to how modern product and engineering organisations buy and adopt platforms, and consistently forecast and report on deal progress and account health. Some examples of our projects - 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's AI-powered DevSecOps platform - Leading complex, multi-stakeholder sales cycles and partnering with Solutions Architects, Sales Development, Customer Success, and channel partners to position GitLab as a trusted platform for modern software delivery, security, and compliance needs What you'll do - Lead and grow GitLab's largest and most strategic Digital Native prospects and customers across your territory, focusing on organisations building modern software products at scale - Drive the full enterprise sales cycle, from prospecting and pipeline generation through qualification, evaluation, negotiation, and close within large, complex Digital Native accounts - 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's AI-powered DevSecOps platform - 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 - 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 - 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 - 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 - 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 What you'll bring - Deep experience driving complex B2B software sales cycles with enterprise customers, ideally in DevSecOps, software d

Deep experience driving complex B2B software sales cycles with enterprise customers, ideally in DevSecOps, software development.

Lead and grow GitLab's largest and most strategic Digital Native prospects and customers across your territory, focusing on organisations building modern software products at scale; Drive the full enterprise sales cycle, from prospecting and pipeline generation through qualification, evaluation, negotiation, and close within large, complex Digital Native accounts; 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's AI-powered DevSecOps platform; 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; 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; 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; 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; 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.