SMB Account Executive South EMEA

The SMB AE job family covers both a new business and growth business approach. We refer to new business as ‘First Order’ and growth business as either ‘Pooled, Expand, Named or Territory’ depending on the region you are potentially working within. 

As a GitLab AE you will be part of a sales team that is lead by an Areas Sales Manager for a specific region and within this team, it will be your responsibility to collaborate with your team members to drive the growth and success of GitLab here in EMEA. 

In order to execute in the role as a GitLab AE you will be required to ustilise the following tooling. Experience with these tools preferred but not a necessity. Training will be provided as required. 

1. Salesforce.com CRM system for account management activities 
   
2. Chorus for call recording and call coaching 
   
3. Zoura Billing for quote creation 
   
4. Outreach for Sales related customer engagement  
   
5. Google Suite for communication and documentation 
   
6. Slack for internal communication and collaboration
   

GitLab encourages any potential candidate who feels they have the natural ability and relevant experience to apply for a role with ourselves. In order to succeed in this role the following is desired to not only successfully represent themselves through the interview process, but successfully progress within the role itself. 

1. Excellent spoken and written English and European languages for regional roles
   
2. Closing sales experience preferred 
   
3. Can demonstrate they have come from a structured learning environment with formal sales training in the basics of managing a company and sales cycle 
   
4. More than one previous sales related job - this can be one or more roles within the same company or across multiple companies 
   
5. Ability to collaborate with colleagues on company growth initiatives 
   
6. Ability to learn about the DevSecOps industry 
   
7. Ability to demonstrate past performance activities 
   
8. Ability to work in a safe working environment 
   
9. Access to your own remote office space. This can be within your dwelling or at a location of your choice. Co-working is encouraged. 
   
10. Ability to be a manager of one 
    

The SMB AE job family covers both a new business and growth business approach. We refer to new business as ‘First Order’ and growth business as either ‘Pooled, Expand, Named or Territory’ depending on the region you are potentially working within. 

As a GitLab AE you will be part of a sales team that is lead by an Areas Sales Manager for a specific region and within this team, it will be your responsibility to collaborate with your team members to drive the growth and success of GitLab here in EMEA. 

In order to execute in the role as a GitLab AE you will be required to ustilise the following tooling. Experience with these tools preferred but not a necessity. Training will be provided as required. 

1. Salesforce.com CRM system for account management activities 
   
2. Chorus for call recording and call coaching 
   
3. Zoura Billing for quote creation 
   
4. Outreach for Sales related customer engagement  
   
5. Google Suite for communication and documentation 
   
6. Slack for internal communication and collaboration
   

GitLab encourages any potential candidate who feels they have the natural ability and relevant experience to apply for a role with ourselves. In order to succeed in this role the following is desired to not only successfully represent themselves through the interview process, but successfully progress within the role itself. 

1. Excellent spoken and written English and European languages for regional roles
   
2. Closing sales experience preferred 
   
3. Can demonstrate they have come from a structured learning environment with formal sales training in the basics of managing a company and sales cycle 
   
4. More than one previous sales related job - this can be one or more roles within the same company or across multiple companies 
   
5. Ability to collaborate with colleagues on company growth initiatives 
   
6. Ability to learn about the DevSecOps industry 
   
7. Ability to demonstrate past performance activities 
   
8. Ability to work in a safe working environment 
   
9. Access to your own remote office space. This can be within your dwelling or at a location of your choice. Co-working is encouraged. 
   
10. Ability to be a manager of one 
    

1. Actively live and contribute to the GitLab company values
   
2. Actively participate in the direct team and the wider SMB Segment team meetings
   
3. Actively participate in sales skills development calls. We call this Project35
   
4. Prepare for and conduct a 1:1 meeting with your ASM on a weekly basis 
   
5. Prepare for and conduct a sales forecast meeting with your ASM on a weekly basis 
   
6. Self learning to develop your knowledge on the DevSecOps industry
   
7. Continually develop your sales territory to maintain accuracy of knowledge in relation to your account base
   
8. Utilise the GitLab defined R7 process in order to attain sales excellence 
   
9. Exercise Executive communication & presentation skills to both GitLab customers, prospects, partners and internal team members 
   
10. Engage with your wider business partners to achieve collaborative stakeholder management 
    
11. Conduct sales calls engaging with varying personas in the account base in your territory 
    
12. Conduct sales meetings to understand the customers IT environment, Utilisation of Cloud, Software Tool Chain along with their use today and future use of GitLab . We refer to these as (ii) meetings 
    
13. Conduct sales related activities with GitLab channel partners to collaborate on specific sales related and territory growth activities
    
14. To increase your working knowledge of the customers utilisation of GitLab
    
15. To increase your working knowledge of your customers DevSecOps Tool chain and their approach to building a Software Development LifeCycle