Strategic Account Executive, Poland

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An overview of this roleAs a Strategic Account Executive, you will own a portfolio of strategic and large customers and prospects in Poland, helping them get the most value from GitLab’s AI-powered DevSecOps platform. You’ll break into net new enterprise accounts and expand GitLab’s footprint within existing customers, using a consultative approach to understand their business needs and guide successful adoption and expansion of GitLab. You’ll work closely with pre- and post-sales teams and strategic channel partners to drive full-cycle sales, from prospecting and qualification through rollout, usage, and long-term growth, while acting as the voice of your customers by feeding their feedback and product ideas into GitLab’s public issue tracker.

This role will need to be based remotely in UK, Ireland, Netherlands, France, Spain or Germany but selling to accounts in Poland.

What you’ll do

• Own a portfolio of strategic and enterprise accounts, driving both net-new customer acquisition and expansion within existing customers.

• Lead complex sales cycles from prospecting and qualification through negotiation and close, using a consultative approach grounded in customer business needs.

• Develop and execute structured account plans that map customer priorities to GitLab’s DevSecOps and AI-powered platform capabilities.

• Collaborate closely with pre-sales, customer success, support, and strategic channel partners to ensure successful evaluations, rollouts, and long-term adoption of GitLab.

• Act as the voice of the customer by sharing feedback and product ideas through GitLab’s public issue tracker and with internal stakeholders.

• Generate and nurture qualified pipeline through targeted outreach, joint activities with channel partners, and effective use of existing relationships.

• Prepare and maintain accurate activity, pipeline, and forecast reports, and contribute to win/loss analysis to continuously improve sales execution.

• Partner with Marketing to shape and execute account-based and regional...