Customer Success Manager, DACH

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.

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The Customer Success Management (CSM) team focuses on the themes of align, enable, and expand. We align with customers’ desired business outcomes, enable them on their existing use cases, and work with them to expand into additional use cases, ensuring ongoing and ever-improving customer return-on-investment.

Additionally, our team serves as liaisons between the customer and the GitLab ecosystem, streamlining collaboration with Product Management, Engineering, Sales, Professional Services, and others. CSM handbook.

What you'll do

Partner with our customers in taking what was established in the pre-sales command plan, and turning the customers desired positive business outcomes into actionable objectives

Know the GitLab platform, our more common best practices, and use cases in order to guide the customer

Understand the customer journey and be able to guide them on future adoption

Act as the GitLab liaison for GitLab questions, issues, or escalations. Collaborate with GitLab Support, Product Management (i.e., roadmaps), or other teams as needed

Own a book of assigned customers, with a focus on increasing adoption, ensuring retention and growth, and overall customer satisfaction

Remain knowledgeable and up-to-date on GitLab releases

What you'll bring

Understanding of Git and typical branching strategies

Knowledge of software development lifecycle and development pipeline

Understanding of continuous integration, continuous deployment, DevSecOps

Prior experience in Customer Success or equivalent history of increasing satisfaction, adoption, and retention

Experience partnering with customers to define and achieve business outcomes

Familiarity working with customers of sizes relevant to the assigned segment

Exceptional verbal, written, organizational, presentation, and communications skills

Detailed oriented and analytical

Strong team player but self-starter

Project management experience & skills

Strong technical, analytic, and problem-solving skills

Alignment with our values, and willingness to work in accordance with those values

Willingness to travel if needed and comply with the company’s travel policy

Fluent German

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

Home Office Support

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