Director, Customer Success, EMEA

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Position overview

GitLab is looking for a strategic, commercially minded, and operationally rigorous Director of Customer Success to lead our EMEA Customer Success Management & Architecture (CSMA) and Customer Success Engineering (CSE) organizations.

This leader will own the regional customer-success operating model across relationship management, adoption architecture, technical enablement, customer health, and outcome realization. The role brings together the strengths of CSMA and CSE so customers can move from implementation to adoption, measurable business outcomes, expansion, and renewal with a consistent experience.

You will lead through managers and senior leaders, build a high-performing all-remote organization, and partner closely with Sales, Renewal Management, Professional Services, Support, Product, Engineering, Marketing, and Customer Success Operations.

What you will do

Set the regional customer-success strategy

Translate GitLab’s customer-outcomes strategy into a clear EMEA plan for CSMA and CSE.

Define the regional engagement model, coverage strategy, segmentation, capacity model, and operating rhythm across dedicated, pooled, and scaled motions.

Establish a single view of the customer journey, from onboarding and implementation through adoption, optimization, expansion, and renewal.

Ensure the organization consistently connects GitLab adoption to customer-defined business outcomes—not activity, features, or meetings alone.

Represent EMEA customer needs and patterns in global Customer Success strategy and planning.

Lead CSMA and CSE as one integrated organization

Build strong alignment between CSMA relationship leadership and CSE technical expertise, with clear roles, handoffs, decision rights, and escalation paths.

Ensure every appropriate customer has a current success plan with measurable outcomes, milestones, owners, risks, and next actions.

Create a consistent approach to adoption architecture, use-case progression, technical enablement, and value realization.

Develop scalable programs—such as webinars, hands-on labs, office hours, adoption plays, and executive engagements—that increase customer reach and impact.

Partner with Professional Services to create continuity from implementation through adoption, including high-quality handoffs and clear ownership after delivery.

Ensure CSE capacity is focused on the moments that most improve adoption, time-to-value, customer health, and expansion readiness.

Drive adoption, outcomes, and GitLab platform value

Make product adoption and verified customer outcomes the centre of the operating model.

Build the capab