Field Operations

The Field Operation team’s vision is to manage field business processes, systems, architecture, enablement, champion data integrity, provide insights and predictability through analytics

Welcome to the Field Operations Handbook

“Manage field business processes, systems, architecture, enablement, champion data integrity, provide insights and predictability through analytics”

The term “sales” refers to the Sales Team and “field” includes the Customer Success, Channel, and Alliances Teams.

Key Tenets

Clarity: for definitions, processes and events Predictability: of the business by leveraging data and systems Scalability: for processes and systems that allows for growth

Teams

RSOE Growth & Development

Field Operations Calendar

  • Field Operations utilizes a team calendar to communicate team member availability as well as office hour meetings.

How to add the Field Operations Calendar

  • To add the Field Operations Calendar to your Google Calendar click on the + Next to Other Calendars on the bottom left hand side of you Google Calendar.
  • From there type in Field Operations into the search box and the Field Operation calendar should be the only calendar available to select.

What are Office Hours?

  • Office hours is a weekly meeting that is set up where the hosting team is available to field questions from individuals who they may not generally sync with. The goal is to offer wider availability and support to the greater operations teams and to GitLab as a whole. Office hours are NOT a dedicated time for team members to join to check in on the status of a project or to be used as a recurring project meeting.

Current Office Hours

  • Sales Systems currently holds office hours every Wednesday at 10:30 AM PST

Field Operations Releases and Changelog

Field Operations works to deliver Field Ops changes related to Sales Ops, CS Ops, Channel Ops & Deal Desk (QTC) in a batched, bi-weekly release cadence. To learn more, see the Field Ops Release Schedule page.

For a running log of Field Ops changes related to Sales Ops, CS Ops, Channel Ops & Deal Desk since Q3-FY22, see the Field Ops Changelog page.


Business Operations - Salesforce Reference
The purpose of this page is to provide insight into the internal workings of our Salesforce instance, how fields are populated, how fields are calculated, where they are used and more.
Career Development at GitLab & RSOE
This page provides guidance and resources for the RSOE team related to Growth & Development
Customer Success Operations
The Customer Success Operations team's handbook page. This covers our mission, strategies, responsibilities, and processes.
Data Intelligence

Charter

Data Intelligence (DI) is a part of Field Operations reporting to Revenue Operations. Our goal is to ensure the field has reliable and quality Salesforce.com sales data to empower them to make repeatable and structured decisions to increase sales and make GitLab more successful. We aim to manage data well and be viewed as a trusted business partner for Sales Operations, Marketing Operations, and Management.

Ecosystem Operations
This page serves as the Ecosystem Operations team page and includes standard channel reporting links, and details for managing partner opportunities
Enterprise Applications - CRM Team
The Enterprise Applications CRM Team implements and supports specialized applications that support our business processes within GitLab.
Field Enablement
The Field Enablement team's mission is to design and deliver effective enablement solutions to field team members and partners that grow expertise and confidence needed to drive efficient, predictable, and scalable growth for GitLab
Go to Market
Operations, Procedures, Documentation
Growth Resources

Finding Customer Seat Counts

Seat expansion is at the heart of our revenue growth. This has a strong impact on IACV and both Net and Gross Retention. There are various ways to determine the seat counts for a subscription:

GitLab.com

The best way to view Seat Counts for a GitLab.com customer is to access the Customers Portal admin section.

  1. Go to https://customers.gitlab.com/admins/sign_in
  2. Sign in with Okta
    1. If you don’t have access, open an Access Request
  3. Once logged in, go to the Customers option in the left-hand menu
  4. In the Filter text field, enter in the company name or email address associated with the subscription
  5. Once the results are loaded, select the “i” icon from the right-hand section
  6. On the Details page that loads, go to GitLab Groups
  7. Here is where you should see the Namespace and corresponding subscription with seat counts
    1. Seats in Subscription is what was paid for
    2. Seats Currently in Use is what is active

It’s important to note that ultimately the Customer Portal admin will have the most accurate and up-to-date view of this information.

Sales Operations
Sales Operations aim to help facilitate new and existing processes throughout our field organization via the use of systems, policies, and direct support.
Sales Order Processing
This page outlines the Quote to Cash process, starting from account and opportunity creation, quote configuration, approvals, booking requirements and to the ultimate closure of a deal.
Sales Strategy and Analytics Handbook
To drive sales success by providing data, reporting, analytics, and actionable insights to leadership across GitLab
Spekit for Operations/Process/Tools Updates
RSOE uses the Spekit tool to update the Field team on operational, process and/or tools changes.