Senior Manager, Deal Desk, EMEA

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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An overview of this role

GitLab's Deal Desk team partners closely with our Field Organization to support Quoting, Pricing and booking transactions. This team serves as the primary liaison between our Sales & Finance teams and is responsible for the efficient, accurate and timely sales bookings. As part of the larger Revenue Operations team, the Deal Desk team supports our constantly changing and complex business as we launch new products, implement new processes and expand into new countries

We're looking for an experienced, dedicated and empathetic leader to manage and grow our EMEA Deal Desk team. Our team is distributed across various European countries, maintaining SLAs and supporting our EMEA sales teams as GitLab's customer base continues to grow.

What you’ll do

Lead the EMEA Deal Desk team, including hiring, enablement, operating rhythm, and ongoing iteration of the function within the region.

Own the end-to-end service model for Deal Desk and Order Management across EMEA, ensuring the function scales with the complexity, pace, and control requirements of a fast-growing public company.

Serve as the regional escalation point for complex, non-standard, and strategic transactions, balancing customer needs, deal velocity, pricing discipline, and operational integrity.

Partner with the Global Deal Desk leader and peer regional managers to ensure EMEA practices stay aligned with global policy while reflecting regional nuances (currency, local terms, data residency, etc.).

Act as a strategic advisor to Sales leadership on deal quality, pricing discipline, exception handling, and commercial strategy in support of healthy revenue growth.

Create and deliver executive-ready insights on deal quality and pricing effectiveness, including discount trends, cycle times, exception rates, approval bottlenecks, and the business impact of pricing decisions.

Ensure complex deal structures can be operationalized cleanly in downstream systems and processes, with clear handoffs into billing, fulfillment, revenue recognition, and customer-facing execution.

What you’ll bring

Several years of manager experience in Deal Desk, Pricing Strategy, Revenue Operations, Sales Operations, Finance Operations, or a closely related quote-to-cash function in enterprise SaaS, ideally with EMEA or multi-country exposure.

Proven success leading Deal Desk teams supporting complex, fast-growing sales organizations and cross-functional stakeholders.

Solid understanding of SaaS pricing models, including per-seat, tiered, multi-year, and usage-based pricing, and the ability to apply pricing strategy into scalable c