Strategic Account Executive - MENA

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.

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As a Strategic Account Executive, you'll help expand GitLab's presence across MENA by building trusted relationships with senior leaders at large organisations and guiding them through complex platform decisions. This role is focusing on new logos and some existing business. You'll use a consultative sales approach to connect customer business needs with our AI-powered DevSecOps platform, helping teams improve developer productivity, reduce security and compliance risk, and move software delivery forward with more confidence. In this role, you'll support strategic accounts across the full customer journey, from early conversations through adoption, while helping us position GitLab as a leading DevSecOps partner in the French market.

You'll work across pre-sales, post-sales, partner, marketing, and support teams, and we'll rely on you to bring strong account leadership, customer outcomes, and clear communication. Over your first year, your impact will come from building account plans for large organizations, developing new opportunities, and helping customers successfully adopt GitLab in ways that align to their business goals.

About the team

The team focuses on growing GitLab's enterprise business by helping large organizations adopt a single platform for software delivery, security, and collaboration. This role works closely with cross-functional partners across sales, solutions, support, marketing, and product, and contributes to an asynchronous, distributed way of working that values transparency, accountability, and shared customer insight. The team's work sits at the intersection of strategic growth and customer transformation, with a focus on helping enterprises evaluate, adopt, and expand their use of GitLab across complex environments.

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