# Strategic Account Executive - Chicago

**Company**: GitLab
**Location**: Chicago, IL
**Work arrangement**: remote
**Experience**: executive
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $114,800-$172,200 USD
**Category**: Sales
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

GitLab is seeking a Strategic Account Executive for the Chicago area to drive enterprise growth by helping influential organizations adopt and expand their use of the AI-powered DevSecOps platform.

As a Strategic Account Executive, you will:

- Drive strategic growth by leading GitLab's enterprise accounts across Chicago

- Orchestrate winning sales strategies with Solutions Architects, Customer Success experts, and other technical specialists

- Shape the future of software development by crafting innovative solutions that align GitLab's platform with customers' long-term vision and business objectives

- Build deep, strategic partnerships by mastering customers' industry landscape, success metrics, and growth trajectories

- Design and execute strategic account plans, including opportunity mapping, stakeholder alignment, and multi-threaded engagement

- Lead end-to-end customer journeys from initial discovery through evaluation, negotiation, and successful implementation

- Champion continuous improvement by contributing to forecasting and pipeline reviews, conducting win/loss analyses, and sharing strategic insights

- Prepare and deliver compelling customer-facing and internal presentations, proposals, and recommendations

Requirements:

- Experience driving complex B2B software sales cycles with enterprise customers, ideally in DevSecOps or adjacent SaaS solutions

- Background selling into large, enterprise accounts in Chicago, United States

- Knowledge of Chicago enterprise market, including key industries, buying centers, and decision-making dynamics

- Ability to drive new business acquisition and expansion within enterprise accounts through consultative, multi-stakeholder sales motions

- Experience collaborating with channel and strategic partners to generate pipeline and support successful customer adoption

- Effective communication and interpersonal skills

GitLab offers:

- Benefits to support 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

## Skills

### Required
- B2B software sales
- DevSecOps
- enterprise sales
- strategic partnerships
- sales strategy

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