Enterprise Account Executive - DACH

Gitlab

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. AN OVERVIEW OF THIS ROLE As a Senior Named Account Executive, you’ll be the primary connection between GitLab and mid-market customers, working with organizations of up to 4,000 team members to help them adopt and expand the world’s most comprehensive AI-powered DevSecOps platform. You’ll own a broad book of business across a wide range of opportunity sizes, guiding small, fast-growing teams as well as more complex projects as they modernize their software delivery with GitLab. Reporting to an Area Sales Manager and partnering closely with business development, marketing, and technical teams, you’ll run the full sales process: shaping the customer’s journey, documenting buying criteria and processes, ensuring accurate pipeline based on evidence, and sharing root-cause insights on wins and losses. In your first year, you’ll focus on building trusted relationships, delivering meaningful business outcomes for customers, and being the voice of the customer internally by contributing ideas to our public issue tracker and improving our sales handbook. WHAT YOU’LL DO * Report to an Area Sales Manager and own a broad book of Enterprise business, from new prospects to growing existing accounts. * Manage the full sales cycle for Enterprise prospects, from discovery and solution alignment through negotiation and close. * Support GitLab for Enterprise prospects by clearly articulating our DevSecOps value proposition and aligning it to customer business outcomes. * Analyze wins and losses, contribute to root cause analyses, and share lessons learned with account managers, marketing, and technical teams. * Document and maintain accurate buying criteria, buying processes, next steps, and owners to ensure a reliable, evidence-based pipeline. * Contribute to improving our sales handbook and processes by documenting best practices and opportunities for refinement. * Provide account leadership and direction across pre- and post-sales, partnering closely with technical teams and customer success. * Represent the voice of the customer by contributing product feedback and ideas to our public issue tracker. WHAT YOU’LL BRING * Proven success in software sales, ideally in a Enterprise market context, managing a varied book of business. * Ability to guide customers through the full buying journey, including defining buying criteria, mapping buying processes, and driving clear next steps. * Effective communication and interpersonal skills to collaborate with business development, marketing, technical teams, and sales management. * Experience documenting and maintaining accurate pipeline data and account plans based on evidence rather than assumptions. * Skill in conducting and contributing to win/loss and root cause analyses, and sharing insights to improve team performance and processes. * Proficiency in negotiation, presenting to customer stakeholders, and leading commercial discussions to close opportunities. * Interest in GitLab, open source software, and preferably familiarity with Git, software development tools, or application lifecycle management. * Alignment with GitLab’s values and an interest in contributing from diverse or transferable sales backgrounds, with willingness to travel in line with company policy. * Fluent German language skills (required). ABOUT THE TEAM The Commercial & Enterprise Sales team focuses on helping growing organizations adopt and expand GitLab’s AI-powered DevSecOps platform across their software delivery lifecycle. You’ll join a distributed group of Account Executives, sales managers, and business development team members who collaborate asynchronously across regions to manage a broad book of business in the mid-market segment. We partner closely with marketing, sales development, and technical teams to run an efficient, transparent sales process, document what works in our sales handbook, and represent the voice of the customer back into GitLab. We focus on opportunities like supporting customers through toolchain consolidation, driving platform adoption, and sharing learnings from wins and losses to continuously improve how we sell and support GitLab. #LI-CW1 HOW GITLAB SUPPORTS FULL-TIME EMPLOYEES * 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  Please note that we welcome interest from candidates with varying levels of experience; many successful candidates do not meet every single requirement. Additionally, studies have shown that people from underrepresented groups are less likely to apply to a job unless they meet every single qualification. If you're excited about this role, please apply and allow our recruiters to assess your application. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Country Hiring Guidelines: GitLab hires new team members in countries around the world. All of our roles are remote, however some roles may carry specific location-based eligibility requirements. Our Talent Acquisition team can help answer any questions about location after starting the recruiting process.   Privacy Policy: Please review our Recruitment Privacy Policy. Your privacy is important to us. 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.

Trustpilot

At Trustpilot, we're on an incredible journey. We're a profitable, high-growth FTSE-250 company with a big vision: to become the universal symbol of trust. We run the world's largest open customer review platform, and while we've come a long way, there's still so much exciting work to do. Come join us at the heart of trust! Are you an experienced sales professional feeling limited by rigid systems where innovation gets lost in meetings and your impact is buried under layers of process? We get it. And we built Trustpilot to be different. We’re a thriving, profitable FTSE-250 business committed to becoming the global standard for trust. But more importantly, we’re building a place where ambitious people can do the most meaningful work of their careers. We’re expanding our Enterprise business in the DACH region, and we’re looking for forward-thinking individuals ready to challenge convention and shape what’s next. This isn’t just another SaaS sales job. This is your opportunity to influence how major brands in Germany, Austria, and Switzerland build customer relationships through radical transparency and how Trustpilot grows in one of its most strategic markets. If you’re excited to build rather than maintain, contribute rather than comply, and see the real impact of your work, keep reading. WHAT YOU'LL BE DOING: * Own the Enterprise new business process for the DACH market—from prospecting through to closing. * Secure new partnerships with leading brands, particularly across eCommerce, financial services, energy/utilities, and regulated industries. * Lead executive-level conversations and navigate complex buying processes with multiple stakeholders. * Build pipeline through a structured outbound approach, collaborating closely with SDRs and Marketing to drive qualified opportunities. * Provide insight and feedback to influence our Enterprise strategy and offerings. * Represent Trustpilot at key industry events and strengthen our brand in the region. * Contribute to a collaborative team environment by supporting and mentoring junior colleagues. WHO YOU ARE: * A results-driven Enterprise SaaS seller with experience managing long, consultative sales cycles. * Proven success closing complex, high-value deals involving procurement, legal, and executive-level decision makers. * Fluent in both German and English, comfortable in both formal boardroom settings and creative brainstorms. * Organised, proactive, and curious, you thrive in roles that offer ownership and autonomy. * Looking to move beyond a one-size-fits-all sales playbook and help shape something built for the European market. WHAT’S IN IT FOR YOU: * Real ownership: influence how we grow in a top-priority region. * Competitive compensation package + bonus * Company Pension Scheme with a 4% of gross salary employer contribution (no matching required).  * 20 days holiday with an additional 8 days after 6 months of continuous employment * 2 (paid) volunteering days a year to spend your time giving back to the causes that matter to you and your community * Rich learning and development opportunities supported through the Trustpilot Academy and Blinkist * Benefit-in-kind of 44€ a month, which can be used for a range of purposes such as private healthcare, accommodation, a company car, a gym membership, an interest-free loan, travel expenses, or any other expense  * Health benefit of 50€ a month which you can use to spend on anything that supports positive health * Full access to Headspace, a popular mindfulness app-based service designed to promote positive mental health and access to a 24/7 Employee Assistance Plan * Prime location with stunning views of the Alster in a brand-new office space STILL NOT SURE? We want to be a part of creating a more diverse, equitable, and inclusive world of work for all. We’re excited to hear about your experiences along with how you will contribute to our working culture. Even if you don’t feel you meet all the requirements, we'd still really like to hear from you! #LI-JS1 About us Trustpilot began in 2007 with a simple yet powerful idea that is more relevant today than ever — to be the universal symbol of trust, bringing consumers and businesses together through reviews. Trustpilot is open, independent, and impartial — we help consumers make the right choices and businesses to build trust, grow and improve. Today, we have more than 350 million reviews and 60 million monthly active users across the globe, with 149 billion annual Trustpilot brand impressions, and the numbers keep growing. We have more than 1000 employees and we’re headquartered in Copenhagen, with operations in  Amsterdam, Denver, Edinburgh, Hamburg, London, Melbourne, Milan and New York.  We’re driven by connection. It’s at the heart of what we do. Our culture keeps things fresh –– it’s built on the relationships we create. We talk, we laugh, we collaborate and we respect each other. We work across borders and cultures to be the universal symbol of trust in an ever-changing world. With vibrant office locations worldwide and over 50 nationalities, we’re proud to be an equal opportunity workplace with diverse perspectives and ideas.  Our purpose to help people and businesses help each other is a tall order, but we keep it real. We’re a great bunch of humans, doing awesome stuff, without fuss or pretense. A successful Trustpilot future is driven by you –– we give you the autonomy to shape a career you can be proud of. If you’re ready to grow, let’s go. Join us at the heart of trust. Trustpilot is committed to creating an inclusive environment where people from all backgrounds can thrive and where different viewpoints and experiences are valued and respected. Trustpilot will consider all applications for employment without regard to race, ethnicity, national origin, religious beliefs, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, neurodiversity, disability, age, parental or veteran status. Together, we are the heart of trust. Trustpilot is a global company and our data practices are designed to ensure that your personally identifiable information is appropriately protected. Please note that your personal information will be transferred, accessed, and stored globally as necessary for the uses and disclosures stated in our Privacy Policy. If you have a disability and would like to discuss any adjustments you might need either in submitting your application, or to the recruitment process more generally, please let us know by contacting our Talent Acquisition Team (talent.acquisition@trustpilot.com) quoting the role you wish to apply for.

Okta

Secure Every Identity, from AI to Human Identity is the key to unlocking the potential of AI. Okta secures AI by building the trusted, neutral infrastructure that enables organizations to safely embrace this new era. This work requires a relentless drive to solve complex challenges with real-world stakes. We are looking for builders and owners who operate with speed and urgency and execute with excellence. This is an opportunity to do career-defining work. We're all in on this mission. If you are too, let's talk. You’d be joining a team of experienced sellers who target the largest multi-national organisations. We’re still in growth mode in our Large Enterprise space and YoY we’ve managed to secure some big wins with some incredible clients which still have upsell and cross sell opportunities; however we plan on growing this space hugely in the coming years so we’re looking for people who can deliver both whitespace land and expand but also expertly manage complex opportunities.   As a Large Enterprise Account Executive you will: * Go to market as an expert on both our Workforce and Customer identity cloud offerings. * Establish a vision and plan for the accounts assigned in your territory by using a tiering approach. * Build thorough account plans detailing customer strategy, financials, pains, objectives and stakeholders. * Proactively drive your own top of funnel activity through Inmails, events, networking and other creative avenues always ensuring you have enough pipeline to hit your number. * Equally utilise Sales Development (SDR’s & BDR’s), Marketing and the Partner ecosystem to help find and win new logo opportunities. * Leverage upsell and cross sell opportunities within your install base accounts to grow the success of your customers and Okta. * Adopt a strong value based sales approach; always looking to bring a compelling point of view to our customers. * Develop trusted and long term advisory partnership with executives in your accounts, leveraging the Okta technology to support them in hitting their key strategic goals. * Follow a MEDDPICC, Command of the Message sales methodology to navigate complexity in the sales cycle and ensure you’re ahead of any obstacles to the deal closing. * Build mutual action plans in partnership with your customers to create shared accountability. * Partner with cross functional teams from Sales Development (SDR’s & BDR’s) to Channel & Alliances, Marketing, Pre-Sales, Solutions Architects, Legal, Deal Desk and more to ensure success for yourself and Okta. * Leverage our Business Value team to show our customers their ROI and deliver effective messaging about the long term impact of the Okta solutions. You could be a great fit for this role if you have: * Expert level experience selling Software as a Service (SaaS) cloud technology into Enterprise organisations, with over 10.000 employees. * Experience self sourcing your opportunities through a range of methods with a drive to win and grow new logos. * Navigated long complex sales cycles with multiple stakeholders from both the customer base and within your own company. Typical deal sizes you may have sold starting at $200,000 ARR. * Significant experience selling to both technical audiences such as CIO, CISO, CTO and the commercial personas such as Product, Marketing, HR, Operations etc. * German and English language skills. #Linkedin_Hybrid #IGP21954   Below is the annual On Target Compensation (OTE) range for candidates located in Germany. Your actual OTE, which is inclusive of base salary and incentive compensation, will depend on factors such as your skills, qualifications, experience, and work location. In addition, Okta offers equity (where applicable) and comprehensive financial benefits including paid time off and parental leave in accordance with our applicable plans and policies. To learn more about our Total Rewards program please visit: https://rewards.okta.com/deu. The OTE range for this position for candidates located in Germany is between: €196.000—€270.000 EUR The Okta Experience * Supporting Your Well-Being  * Driving Social Impact  * Developing Talent and Fostering Connection + Community We are intentional about connection. Our global community, spanning over 20 offices worldwide, is united by a drive to innovate. Your journey begins with an immersive, in-person onboarding experience designed to accelerate your impact and connect you to our mission and team from day one. Okta is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, ancestry, marital status, age, physical or mental disability, or status as a protected veteran. We also consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and convictions records, consistent with applicable laws. If reasonable accommodation is needed to complete any part of the job application, interview process, or onboarding please use this Form to request an accommodation. Notice for New York City Applicants & Employees: Okta may use Automated Employment Decision Tools (AEDT), as defined by New York City Local Law 144, that use artificial intelligence, machine learning, or other automated processes to assist in our recruitment and hiring process. In accordance with NYC Local Law 144, if you are an applicant or employee residing in New York City, please click here to view our full NYC AEDT Notice.