Area Vice President Sales - Northern Europe

GitLab; Remote; IDR 2.345.124.000 - 2.931.406.000; Full time

Job summary

A leading software company seeking an Area Vice President Sales to lead a top-performing team in Northern Europe. This role involves driving sales strategy and managing a team of sales leaders, focusing on developing enterprise accounts and enhancing customer relationships. Candidates should have proven experience in enterprise sales, strong leadership skills, and the ability to collaborate across various departments. Join a dynamic team committed to accelerating software delivery and innovation.

Benefits

Flexible working hours

Remote work opportunities

Career development programs

Qualifications

• Experience leading enterprise sales teams in complex environments.
• Proven success in driving annual recurring revenue growth.
• Ability to maintain executive-level relationships with customers.

Responsibilities

• Lead a high-performing sales team to drive adoption of GitLab’s platform.
• Develop and execute go-to-market strategy for new enterprise customers.
• Collaborate with other departments to enhance customer value delivery.

Skills

Leadership

Sales Strategy

Customer Relationship Management

Team Development

Communication Skills

Education

Bachelor’s degree or equivalent

Job description

Area Vice President Sales - Northern Europe

Remote, Europe-North/Central

GitLab is an open-core software company that develops the most comprehensive AI-powered DevSecOps Platform, used by more than 100,000 organizations. Our mission is to enable everyone to contribute to and co-create the software that powers our world. When everyone can contribute, consumers become contributors, significantly accelerating human progress. Our platform unites teams and organizations, breaking down barriers and redefining what's possible in software development. Thanks to products like Duo Enterprise and Duo Agent Platform, customers get AI benefits at every stage of the SDLC.

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.

An overview of this role

As the Area Vice President, Northern Europe, you'll build and lead a high-performing second-line enterprise sales organization that helps customers adopt GitLab's single DevSecOps platform to power their software delivery. You'll lead a team of Area Sales Managers. You'll set and execute the strategy to land new enterprise customers and expand existing accounts in a predictable, purpose-driven way. Reporting to the VP, Enterprise Sales, you'll recruit and develop diverse sales leaders and own the sales process and forecasting for the region. You'll also shape how we partner with Marketing, Channel, Alliances, Product, and Engineering to drive strong annual recurring revenue growth in core markets in your first year and beyond.

What you’ll do

• Lead, coach, and inspire a high-performing team of Regional Sales Directors and Strategic Account Leaders focused on Enterprise accounts.
• Develop and execute a clear go-to-market strategy to land new Enterprise customers and expand existing relationships, driving predictable year-over-year ARR growth.
• Recruit, onboard, and develop a diverse, inclusive, and effective Enterprise sales organization, with a focus on building strong leaders and individual contributors.
• Maintain and deepen executive-level relationships with key customers, shaping joint visions for long-term adoption of GitLab’s DevSecOps platform.
• Manage the overall Enterprise sales process, setting and monitoring metrics for pipeline health, forecast accuracy, and funnel management.
• Partner closely with Marketing, Channel, Alliances, Product, and Engineering peers to align on account plans, campaigns, and customer value delivery.
• Provide detailed, accurate sales forecasts and insights to the VP, Enterprise Sales and other leaders, informing territory planning and investment decisions.
• Plan and operate at both strategic and tactical levels, ensuring operational rigor, effective territory coverage, and consistent execution across the region.

What you’ll bring

• Experience leading and developing strategic enterprise sales teams, for example by managing managers in complex field sales environments.
• Proven ability to build, develop, and retain a high-performing, diverse sales organization of sales leaders and Strategic Account Leaders.
• Demonstrated success leading enterprise software sales teams to drive strong, predictable ARR growth across large, complex deals.
• Deep experience selling into large enterprise accounts in core markets, ideally including development tooling and/or open source solutions.
• Track record of partnering closely with Channel, Marketing, Alliances, Product, and Engineering to align on account strategies and deliver customer value.
• Experience maintaining executive-level customer relationships and creating strategies to land new customers and expand existing accounts.
• Ability to manage forecasting and sales funnel metrics with accuracy, and operate effectively at both strategic and operational levels.
• Strong integrity, initiative, and communication skills, with the ability to thrive in a fast-paced, distributed environment. We’re also open to candidates with transferable leadership experience.

About the team

The Northern Europe Enterprise Sales team is responsible for driving adoption and expansion of GitLab's AI-powered DevSecOps platform with our largest and most strategic customers in the region. We are a distributed group of Area Sales Managers and Strategic Account Leaders. We focus on complex sales cycles and long-term customer success. We work asynchronously across the region, using GitLab to plan, collaborate, and forecast, while focusing on predictable annual recurring revenue growth and purposeful expansion in core markets.

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.

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