Account Executive - France

Kenyan Edu; France; Remote; EUR 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible Paid Time Off

Equity Compensation & Employee Stock"

Growth and Development Fund

Parental Leave

Job summary

GitLab is seeking an Account Executive for France to own a broad enterprise book, managing the full sales cycle from discovery to close. The role emphasizes selling GitLab's DevSecOps platform to mid-market customers, with a focus on building trusted relationships and driving adoption.

This remote role requires fluent French and strong cross-functional collaboration across teams. You will manage pipeline, forecast, and travel to meet customers as needed, while partnering with sales development,

Qualifications

• Experience selling software as a service (SaaS) solutions.
• Ability to manage a broad mid-market territory as the primary point of contact.
• Strong customer relationships, including discovery, negotiation, and closing skills.
• Outbound prospecting and maintaining a healthy pipeline and forecast.

Responsibilities

• Own a broad Enterprise book, from new prospects to growing existing accounts.
• Manage full sales cycle from discovery through negotiation and close.
• Articulate value of GitLab's DevSecOps platform to Mid-Market prospects and customers.
• Build and maintain a healthy pipeline through structured prospecting and qualification.
• Document buying criteria, decision processes, and next steps for disciplined sales cycles.
• Collaborate with sales development, customer success, renewals, marketing, partners, and technical teams to deliver pre- and post-sales experience.
• Support customer adoption and travel to meet customers and attend events as needed.

Skills

SaaS sales

Mid-market sales

Customer relationships

Prospecting

Cross-functional collaboration

DevSecOps domain

French fluency

Job description

# Account Executive - FranceGitLabRemote Full Time Remote Posted 11 hours agoShare this job:WhatsApp LinkedIn X Facebook Email#### Job DescriptionHeadquarters: Remote, France GitLab is the intelligent orchestration platform for DevSecOps. GitLab enables organizations to increase developer productivity, improve operational efficiency, reduce security and compliance risk, and accelerate digital transformation. More than 50 million registered users and more than 50% of the Fortune 100\\* trust GitLab to ship better, more secure software faster. The same principles built into our products are reflected in how our team works: we embrace AI as a core productivity multiplier, with all team members expected to incorporate AI into their daily workflows to drive efficiency, innovation, and impact. GitLab is where careers accelerate, innovation flourishes, and every voice is valued. Our high-performance culture is driven by our values and continuous knowledge exchange, enabling our team members to reach their full potential while collaborating with industry leaders to solve complex problems. Co-create the future with us as we build technology that transforms how the world develops software. \\*Fortune 500 is a registered trademark of Fortune Media IP Limited, used under license. Claim based on GitLab data. Fortune 100 refers to the top 20% ranked companies in the 2025 Fortune 500 list, published in June 2025. Fortune and Fortune Media IP Limited are not affiliated with, and do not endorse products or services of GitLab.An overview of this role As an Account Executive, you'll be the primary connection between GitLab and its customers, working with organizations of up to 4,000 team members to help them adopt and expand the world's most comprehensive platform for software development, security, and operations (DevSecOps), which uses artificial intelligence. You'll own a broad book of business across a wide range of opportunity sizes, guiding small, fast-growing teams as well as more complex projects as they modernize their software delivery with GitLab. Reporting to a Regional Sales Director, you'll run the full sales process: shaping the customer's journey, documenting buying criteria and processes, and maintaining accurate pipeline data based on evidence. In your first year, you'll focus on building trusted relationships and delivering meaningful business outcomes for customers. What you'll do Own a broad book of Enterprise business, from new prospects to growing existing accounts. Manage the full sales cycle for Enterprise prospects, from discovery and solution alignment through negotiation and close. Articulate the value of GitLab's DevSecOps platform and its artificial intelligence capabilities to Mid-Market prospects and customers, tailoring messaging to their business and technical needs. Build and maintain a healthy pipeline through consistent prospecting, qualification, and advancement of opportunities, using a structured sales process to support your pipeline and revenue goals. Document buying criteria, decision processes, next steps, and key stakeholders to run disciplined, well-orchestrated sales cycles. Collaborate with sales development, customer success, renewals, marketing, technical teams, and partners to deliver a cohesive pre- and post-sales experience, co-sell and close opportunities, and expand GitLab’s footprint while delivering added value for customers. Support customer adoption of GitLab solutions, proactively work to reduce churn and contraction, and participate in quarterly forecasting and territory planning; travel to meet customers and attend events as needed. What you'll bring Experience selling software as a service (SaaS) solutions. Ability to manage a broad mid-market territory as the primary point of contact, owning a book of business from prospecting through close, adoption, and expansion. Skill in building and maintaining strong customer relationships, including effective discovery, negotiation, and closing to support long-term customer outcomes. Experience conducting consistent outbound prospecting, creating and maintaining a healthy pipeline, and maintaining accurate territory and forecast documentation. Ability to collaborate closely with cross-functional partners (sales development, customer success, renewals, marketing, partners, and technical teams) to coordinate account strategies. Ability to connect customer business challenges to GitLab's DevSecOps platform and communicate its value to different audiences, documenting customer insights and lessons learned; relevant, transferable sales experience from a variety of backgrounds is welcome. Fluent French language skills (required). Experience selling to development or DevSecOps teams is helpful, but not required. About the team You'll join the Europe, Middle East, and Africa Sales team, a distributed group of Account Executives, sales managers, and business development team members. We collaborate asynchronously across regions and partner with marketing, sales development, and technical teams.How GitLab Supports Full-Time Employees 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 Please note that we welcome interest from candidates with varying levels of experience; many successful candidates do not meet every single requirement. Additionally, studies have shown that people from underrepresented groups are less likely to apply to a job unless they meet every single qualification. If you're excited about this role, please apply and allow our recruiters to assess your application. Country Hiring Guidelines: GitLab hires new team members in countries around the world. All of our roles are remote, however some roles may carry specific location-based eligibility requirements. Our Talent Acquisition team can help answer any questions about location after starting the recruiting process. Privacy Policy: Please review our Recruitment Privacy Policy. Your privacy is important to us. GitLab is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and is an affirmative action employer. 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