Major Account Executive, Financial Services (Remote)

GitLab; United States; Remote; USD 115,000 - 187,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Growth and Development Fund

Team Member Resource Groups

Equity Compensation and ESPP

Flexible Paid Time Off

Job summary

GitLab is seeking a Major Account Executive for the Financial Services sector in the US East to drive adoption of our AI-powered DevSecOps platform within large, regulated enterprises.

You will own end-to-end sales cycles, engage C-level stakeholders, and partner with cross-functional teams to deliver value, align account plans, and achieve long-term expansion across the enterprise. The role offers remote work within the United States and a clear path to impact and growth.

Qualifications

• Experience selling to large enterprises in B2B software.
• Proven ability to build trusted relationships with C-level and senior stakeholders.
• Strong account leadership across pre-sales and post-sales to drive value and expansion.

Responsibilities

• Support strategic large prospects as a trusted advisor through their DevSecOps journey.
• Drive the full sales cycle in large enterprises, including prospecting, qualifying, developing, and closing opportunities.
• Provide leadership in both pre-sales and post-sales to ensure customers realize value from GitLab’s platform.

Skills

Enterprise sales

B2B software

C-level engagement

Strategic account management

Forecasting & planning

Negotiation

Cross-functional collaboration

DevSecOps familiarity

Tools

Git

DevOps tools

ALM tools

Security tools

Job description

Major Account Executive, Financial Services - US East

Location: Remote, United States

Department: AMER - Enterprise

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 valuesand 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.

Location: New York, New Jersey, Connecticut, Massachusetts

An overview of this role

As a Major Account Executive on our FINS Enterprise team, you'll help large, regulated organizations adopt, implement, and expand their use of GitLab’s AI-powered DevSecOps platform. You’ll focus on major enterprise prospects and customers, guiding them through complex DevSecOps and software delivery transformations across areas like CI/CD automation, secure development, and infrastructure modernization. In this role, you'll act as a key connector between customer stakeholders and GitLab’s field organization so GitLab is seen as a trusted, long-term partner before, during, and after the sale. In your first year, you’ll be expected to build and manage a healthy enterprise pipeline, create repeatable sales motions, and drive successful rollouts and adoption that translate into measurable results and long-term expansion.

What you'll do

• Support GitLab’s strategic large prospects and customers as a trusted advisor throughout their DevSecOps journey.
• Drive the full sales cycle in large, complex enterprises, including prospecting, qualifying, developing, and closing new opportunities across your assigned accounts.
• Provide strong account leadership and direction in both the pre-sales and post-sales process to ensure customers realize value from GitLab’s AI-powered DevSecOps platform.
• Coordinate closely with Solutions Architects, Customer Success, Support, and strategic channel partners to design and execute account strategies that drive adoption, expansion, and retention.
• Develop and execute structured account plans based on customer business needs, including opportunity mapping, stakeholder alignment, and multi-threaded engagement across technical and business teams.
• Ensure successful rollout and ongoing adoption through proactive account management activities, regular business reviews, and clear alignment on customer outcomes.
• Prepare and deliver accurate activity and forecast reports, and contribute to root cause analysis on wins and losses while sharing lessons learned with account managers, marketing, and technical teams.
• Act as the voice of the customer by sharing feedback and product ideas, and use a consultative approach to create proposals, quotes, and presentations that clearly link GitLab’s solutions to customer business objectives.

What you'll bring

• A true desire to see customers achieve meaningful outcomes and long-term value from their investment in GitLab.
• Experience driving complex B2B software sales cycles with large enterprises, ideally in DevSecOps, software development tools, or adjacent SaaS solutions.
• Proven success selling into large, strategic organizations, with the ability to build trusted relationships with C-level and senior stakeholders across business and technical teams.
• Able to provide a high degree of account management and control, working under minimal supervision on complex opportunities while maintaining clear communication and alignment.
• Ability to generate new business and expand existing accounts through consultative, multi-stakeholder sales motions that result in sustainable, long-term partnerships.
• Experience collaborating with strategic channel partners to develop opportunities, co-sell, and support successful customer adoption.
• Excellent negotiation, presentation, and closing skills, with effective written and verbal communication that influences internal and external stakeholders.
• Preferred experience with Git, software development tools, application lifecycle management, or security/application security tools.
• You share our values and work in accordance with them, use GitLab in your daily work, and are able to travel if needed while following GitLab’s travel policy.

About the team

The Enterprise Sales team is responsible for driving growth, adoption, and long-term value for GitLab's AI-powered DevSecOps platform with our largest and most strategic customers. As a Major Account Executive on the FINS Enterprise team, you'll be part of a distributed, all-remote team that works asynchronously across regions and partners closely with GitLab's sales engineering, marketing, and customer success teams. We value transparency, collaboration, and a consultative approach, and we support one another through shared account planning, regular deal reviews, and knowledge sharing focused on enterprise customers across regulated and large-scale environments.

Remote-Global

United States Salary Range

$114,800 — $186,600 USD

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

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