Strategic Account Executive - MENA

About the Position

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.

As a Strategic Account Executive - MENA, you'll help expand GitLab's presence across MENA by building trusted relationships with senior leaders at large organizations and guiding them through complex platform decisions. This role focuses 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.

Responsibilities

• Lead strategic account activity for large prospects and customers, providing direction throughout pre-sales and post-sales engagements.
• Develop opportunities within enterprise accounts through prospecting, relationship building, and a consultative understanding of customer business needs.
• Create account plans and customer proposals that clearly connect GitLab capabilities to organizational priorities and transformation goals.
• Coordinate with pre-sales, post-sales, and support teams to support successful product rollout and customer adoption.
• Generate qualified pipeline in partnership with strategic channel partners and support new customer development efforts.
• Contribute customer feedback and product ideas to GitLab's public issue tracker to represent the voice of the customer.
• Prepare activity and forecast reports, and help analyze wins and losses to improve future sales execution.
• Collaborate with marketing, account teams, product managers, and technical teams to share lessons learned and communicate customer needs clearly.

Requirements

• Experience selling into large organizations and navigating complex enterprise sales cycles with multiple stakeholders.
• Ability to build and manage executive-level customer relationships with a high degree of ownership and follow-through.
• Skill in consultative selling, including shaping proposals, presentations, and formal quotes around customer business needs.
• Strength in negotiation, presentation, and closing conversations in a clear and effective way.
• Comfort working independently on complex projects while coordinating with cross-functional teams.
• Fluency in English and Arabic required.
• Familiarity with GitLab or related tools, including Git, software development tools, application lifecycle management, or security and application security tools.
• Alignment with GitLab's values, with openness to transferable experience from adjacent technical or enterprise software environments.

We Offer

• 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

About the Company

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.

GitLab is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and is an affirmative action employer. GitLab’s policies and practices relating to recruitment, employment, career development and advancement, promotion, and retirement are based solely on merit, regardless of race, color, religion, ancestry, sex (including pregnancy, lactation, sexual orientation, gender identity, or gender expression), national origin, age, citizenship, marital status, mental or physical disability, genetic information (including family medical history), discharge status from the military, protected veteran status (which includes disabled veterans, recently separated veterans, active duty wartime or campaign badge veterans, and Armed Forces service medal veterans), or any other basis protected by law. GitLab will not tolerate discrimination or harassment based on any of these characteristics. See also GitLab’s EEO Policy and EEO is the Law. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please let us know during the recruiting process.