Commercial Account Executive - MENA

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As a Commercial Account Executive - MENA at GitLab, you’ll be the

primary point of contact between GitLab and customers in Middle-East, 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 a Regional Sales Director 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 providing root-cause insights on wins and losses. In

your first year, you’ll focus on building strong 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 a Regional Sales Director and own a broad book of mid-market business in

France, from new prospects to growing existing accounts.

Manage the full sales cycle for prospects, from

discovery and solution alignment through negotiation and close.

Support GitLab prospects by clearly

articulating our DevSecOps value proposition and aligning it to customer business outcomes.

Review wins and

losses, contribute to root cause reviews, and communicate lessons learned to 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 coordination 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, 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 cross-functional partnership skills to work 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 reviews, and providing insights to improve team performance and processes.

Proficiency in

negotiation, presenting to customer stakeholders, and facilitating commercial discussions to close opportunities.

Interest in GitLab and open source software, with familiarity with Git, software development tools, or application

lifecycle management.

Fluency in Arabic and English.

The Commercial Sales

team includes Account Executives, sales managers, and business development team members who work asynchronously across regions to

support mid-market customers. You’ll join a distributed team that balances new business with account growth and values

collaboration, transparency, and strong execution.

We make knowledge readily available, work closely across functions, and

learn continuously from the market. You’ll be part of a group that helps customers navigate complex buying processes while

improving how we work across teams and support one another throughout the sales process.

Remote-Global

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.

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