Partner Sales
Levels
Senior Manager, Partner Sales
Job Grade
The Senior Manager, Partner Sales is a grade 9.
Responsibilities
- Engage GitLab country specific team members (Sales Leaders, Customer Success, Marketing, etc.) to ensure awareness and leverage of Gitlab partner strategy and philosophy.
- Foster executive level relationships in assigned country/territory both internally and with specific partners.
- Collaborate with partner programs, services and marketing teams to develop the partner strategy and drive revenue in assigned country/territory.
- Directly manage assigned country/territory of the alliance and channels team across all market segments.
- Work with the internal team to identify demand generation and build pipeline within assigned country/territory; accountable for customer adoption and revenue growth in assigned territory for partners.
- Provide understanding of business dynamics and key drivers and set strategies, tactics, and success metrics.
- Participate in regular quarterly business reviews with top partners in assigned country/territory.
- Oversee Salesforce for partners and deal registrations for assigned country/territory.
- Stays abreast of competitive products, technologies and industry trends.
- Collaborate with other partner leaders within GitLab, across geographies, to adopt best practices for partner engagements.
Requirements
- Strong sales experience managing partner relationships in software and or SAAS environments.
- Experience selling in the Software Development Tools and/or Application Lifecycle Management space.
- Ability to work independently in a fast-paced environment; must be high energy, motivated and a self starter.
- Ability to travel up to 50% within the assigned territory.
- Effective communicator with excellent interpersonal skills and an ability to build strong relationships with partners and GitLab teams.
- Strong personal network within the industry.
- Driven, highly motivated and results oriented.
- Willing to share in GitLab’s values, and work in accordance with those values.
- Ability to use GitLab.
{add Level} Performance Indicators
- % Revenue Partner Initiated
- % Services Attached
- Size of Partner Practices - skilled, certified consultants and deliver resources
Career Ladder
The Partner Sales career path is not clearly defined at this time. Please review other [Sales Roles](/job-families/sales/ to determine adjacent career paths.
Hiring Process
Candidates for this position can expect the hiring process to follow the order below. Please keep in mind that candidates can be declined from the position at any stage of the process.
- Qualified candidates will be invited to schedule a 30 minute screening call with one of our Global Recruiters.
- Next, candidates will be invited to schedule a first interview with the hiring manager for the role.
- Candidate will then schedule an interview with a cross-functional panel of 3-5 internal stakeholders, possibly from the following teams: Enterprise Sales, Partner Sales, Customer Success, Marketing.
- During the panel interview step, candidates will be given a take home exercise to present how they would create their Partner Go-To-Market plan to present to the hiring manager and cross-functional panel interviewers.
- Candidates may be invited to additional interviews as needed.
- Successful candidates will be made an offer after references are verified.
Additional details about our process can be found on our hiring page.
About Gitlab
GitLab Inc. is a company based on the GitLab open-source project. GitLab is a community project to which over 2,200 people worldwide have contributed. We are an active participant in this community, trying to serve its needs and lead by example. We have one vision: everyone can contribute to all digital content, and our mission is to change all creative work from read-only to read-write so that everyone can contribute.
We value results, transparency, sharing, freedom, efficiency, self-learning, frugality, collaboration, directness, kindness, diversity, inclusion and belonging, boring solutions, and quirkiness. If these values match your personality, work ethic, and personal goals, we encourage you to visit our primer to learn more. Open source is our culture, our way of life, our story, and what makes us truly unique.
Top 10 Reasons to Work for GitLab:
- Mission: Everyone can contribute
- Results: Fast growth, ambitious vision
- Flexible Work Hours: Plan your day so you are there for other people & have time for personal interests
- Transparency: Over 2,000 webpages in GitLab handbook, GitLab Unfiltered YouTube channel
- Iteration: Empower people to be effective & have an impact, Merge Request rate, We dogfood our own product, Directly responsible individuals
- Diversity, Inclusion & Belonging: A focus on gender parity, Team Member Resource Groups, other initiatives
- Collaboration: Kindness, saying thanks, intentionally organize informal communication, no ego
- Total Rewards: Competitive market rates for compensation, Equity compensation, global benefits (inclusive of office equipment)
- Work/Life Harmony: Flexible workday, Family and Friends days
- Remote Done Right: One of the world's largest all-remote companies, prolific inventor of remote best practices
See our culture page for more!
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