Description
GitLab is seeking a Field CTO, Public Sector to serve as a trusted technical advisor for public sector customers and prospects. The successful candidate will help connect DevSecOps strategy, security, and compliance goals to real business and mission outcomes.
Overview of the Role As a Field CTO, Public Sector at GitLab, you will provide strategic guidance on how GitLab can support secure software delivery, modernization efforts, and platform adoption across complex environments. You will work closely with executive stakeholders during the pre-sales process, building relationships with leaders such as Chief Information Security Officers, Chief Security Officers, Chief Technology Officers, and chief security architects.
Responsibilities
- Engage with customers in a technical consulting and advisory role during the pre-sales process, providing technical assistance and strategic guidance.
- Deliver executive-level thought leadership on DevSecOps, security, and compliance for strategic public sector opportunities.
- Build and maintain relationships with customer leaders.
- Partner with the marketing team to develop content and support media engagement opportunities.
- Educate customers on the value of the GitLab platform and related technologies.
- Assist with requests for information and responses related to government publications and public-private partnership opportunities.
- Participate in and contribute to working groups connected to government publications, standards, and demonstrations.
- Curate and communicate public sector field feedback, collaborate on prioritization with marketing and product teams, and contribute to sales strategy, playbooks, enablement, and reusable technical content for the field.
Requirements
- Demonstrated expertise in DevSecOps strategy, application security, and compliance for regulated environments.
- Experience selling to, supporting, or working within the public sector.
- Experience creating and delivering technical thought leadership content.
- Working knowledge of the end-to-end software development lifecycle, including CI/CD and modern engineering and operations practices.
- Experience with cloud computing and modern platform architectures that support secure software delivery.
- Strong verbal, written, and presentation skills.
- Comfort working in a fully remote, distributed, and asynchronous environment.
- Ability to coordinate across time zones and adapt schedules to customer and internal stakeholder needs.
- Experience in technical pre-sales, consulting, solutions architecture, or comparable customer-facing IT roles.
Benefits
- 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.
- Home office support.