Description
We're looking for a New Business Account Executive to join our team in Germany. As a New Business Account Executive, you'll play an important role in GitLab's growth by acquiring net-new customers and expanding our market presence.
You'll focus on building relationships with C-level and senior technical buyers at high-growth companies, managing the full sales cycle from first outreach to close, and creating your own pipeline through consistent, high-quality prospecting.
In this greenfield territory, you'll support change and innovation, help customers navigate their decision process, and act as a trusted partner to new customers as they adopt GitLab's AI-powered DevSecOps platform.
You'll collaborate closely with a dedicated SDR pod, Solutions Architecture, Marketing, and Customer Success. You'll report to the Director of New Business Sales and contribute to GitLab's revenue trajectory and position in a dynamic market.
Key responsibilities include:
- Managing the full new logo acquisition cycle from first outreach through close for high-growth target accounts
- Building and maintaining strong pipeline coverage through consistent, high-quality prospecting across phone, email, social, and creative outbound channels
- Running effective discovery meetings to uncover business pain, quantify impact, and align GitLab's value proposition with executive-level priorities
- Navigating complex, multi-stakeholder sales cycles, engaging C-level executives, IT leaders, and cross-functional buying committees to drive consensus
- Developing and executing strategic territory plans, including account segmentation, prioritization, and tailored engagement strategies for high-potential prospects
- Partnering with Solutions Architecture and Customer Success to orchestrate technical evaluations, proofs of concept, and smooth post-sale handoffs
- Applying GitLab's sales methodologies, including MEDDPICC and Command of the Message, to qualify pipeline, support healthy deal progress, and maintain predictable forecasting
Key qualifications include:
- Experience in B2B SaaS sales focused on net-new logo acquisition and new business development
- Demonstrated success building territories from scratch, generating pipeline in greenfield accounts, and closing new customers
- Familiarity with consumption-based or usage-based business models and ability to position value beyond traditional licensing structures
- Strong discovery, qualification, and consultative selling skills for engaging C-level executives and multi-stakeholder buying groups
- Ability to manage multiple complex opportunities at once while maintaining an organized prospecting and follow-up cadence
- Proficiency with a modern sales tech stack, including tools such as Salesforce, Clari, Outreach, ZoomInfo or Cognism, LinkedIn Sales Navigator, Gong, and 6sense
- Comfortable working in a dynamic environment with a focus on continuous learning, coaching, and iteration
- Openness to candidates with varied backgrounds who bring transferable new business, prospecting, and relationship-building skills