Director, Territory Partner Account Managers (EMEA)

Director, Territory Partner Account Management

Director Responsibilities

Team Management

• Lead, manage, and motivate an assigned partner team including resource hiring, mentorship and performance management
• Provide strategic leadership and a results-oriented mindset through high engagement, setting a clear vision and willingness to challenge assumptions
• Lead by example in partnering with functional leaders in sales, programs, solution architects, product leadership, marketing, legal, customer success, services and operations to ensure customer and partner success.
• Provide understanding of business dynamics and key drivers and set strategies, tactics, and success metrics.
• Oversee co-selling to drive GitLab revenue with global or regional partners and through strategic cloud partner marketplaces.
• Resolve partner and marketplace deal escalations.
• Provide VP, Partners with critical business visibility and weekly business status.
• Participate in and/or present in quarterly business reviews (QBRs).
• Coordinate and collaborate with Finance, Partner Operations, Sales Operations, and Sales as needed.
• Execute, manage and deliver GitLab pipeline and revenue tied to partner strategies and initiatives in close alignment with internal and external stakeholders
• Maintain partner-driven pipeline and dashboards that help communicate to GitLab leadership the effectiveness of identified programs and investments.
• Oversee use of Salesforce for partner deal registrations
• Proactively communicate partner-related value, success, and activities to GitLab regional sales teams and leadership.

Regional Partnering

• Work closely with GitLab regional sales leadership to inform the partner strategies, programs and best practices.
• Engage GitLab regional sales leadership, solutions architects and partner marketing teams to ensure awareness and leverage of partners.
• Foster executive relationships regionally of GitLab sales leaders and partner organizations.
• Evangelize GitLab’s value proposition to partner organizations.
• Provide executive support at regional partner marketing events.
• Oversee partner-led demand generation, pipeline building activities, and related go-to-market planning within the assigned region.
• Leverage your extensive, long-standing professional network to maximize relationships with partners.
• Partners with respective cross functional leaders to facilitate due diligence, fact finding, deal negotiations and final contract development and implementation
• Ensure partner compliance with Partner programs and agreements.

Global Partner Management

• Work closely with GitLab sales leadership to inform global partner strategies, programs and best practices.
• Engage GitLab sales leadership, solutions architects and partner marketing teams to ensure awareness and leverage of global partners.
• Foster executive relationships regionally of GitLab sales leaders and global partner organizations.
• Evangelize GitLab’s value proposition globally to partner organizations.
• Provide executive support at regional and global partner marketing events.
• Oversee global partner-led demand generation, pipeline building activities, and related go-to-market planning.
• Leverage your extensive, long-standing professional network to maximize relationships with global partners.
• Partners with respective cross functional leaders to facilitate due diligence, fact finding, deal negotiations and final contract development and implementation
• Ensure partner compliance with partner programs and agreements.

Director Requirements

Indirect Sales and Team Management

• 10+ years of experience with indirect sales and people management.
• Ability to build, lead and execute global partnering strategy in a cross-functional environment as a people leader
• Ability to communicate the strategic direction of GitLab to the global partner team.
• Success in driving indirect sales with open source solutions via resale, services (RSIs/GSIs), cloud partnerships, and distribution.
• Understanding of offer creation, marketing, lead generation and professional services organization key performance indicators (KPIs)
• Solid business development skills.
• Experience delivering results via influenced revenue via service partners and/or indirect sales via resale or cloud partners.
• Executive presence to lead and manage a strategic partner business. Be able to present up to sales leadership.
• Strong executive selling and business development skills
• Able to lead strategic projects on behalf of GitLab sales leadership to ensure growth.
• Demonstrated progressive experience leading partner sales and managers, account management or sales teams with sizes of people +.

Partner Management

• 10+ years experience in partner management preferably in software or SaaS solutions.
• Experience building, leading and executing strategy within a cross-functional environment.
• Ability to run a partner management team self sufficiently.
• Knowledge and/or experience with different partner GTM and organizational models
• Proven record of success developing partners strategically and economically.
• Executive presence to lead and manage the most strategic partners
• Experience working with regional and global systems integrators

Industry Knowledge

• Familiarity with relevant industry landscape including trends, thought leadership
• Knowledge of common industry-specific use cases.
• Must stay up-to-date on relevant industry trends to provide strategic guidance and to effectively serve as a trusted advisor to their internal and external stakeholders
• DevOps knowledge and/or experience including security and/or cloud services.
• Experience with B2B indirect sales of high technology solutions.
• Interest in GitLab, and open source software.

CREDIT Skills

• Qualities that match with GitLab core values and can inspire others to follow and act.
• Ability to build and maintain positive working relationships while delivering results in a highly complex, matrixed global organization.
• Ability to work in a fast-paced environment; must be high energy, motivated and a self starter.
• Effective communicator with good interpersonal skills and an ability to build strong relationships with partners and GitLab teams.
• Ability and willingness to share domain knowledge among peers.
• Continuous learner. Ability and desire to deepen technical and domain knowledge
• Comfortable providing feedback to leadership to improve processes and systems
• Results driven
• Tenacity. Persists under tough circumstances. Resilient. Overcomes obstacles.
• Strong tolerance for ambiguity; able to focus and execute in a changing environment; ability to make things happen
• Experience with managing remote teams.
• Ability to travel up to 50% within the assigned territory and comply with the company’s travel policy.

Director Performance Indicators

• % Revenue Partner Source
• % Revenue Partner Co-sell/Influence
• Development of Partner Practices - skilled, certified consultants and deliver resources

Compensation

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