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The Engagement Manager plays the critical role in helping Customers drive adoption of high value functionality of the GitLab platform. The Engagement Manager plays a sales overlay role by shaping customer engagements focused helping customers accelerated toward their positive business outcomes with GitLab. The Engagement Manager serves as a trusted advisor to customers in their portfolio, providing guidance to Sales, Customer Success and Professional Services Delivery team and ensuring the highest levels of customer satisfaction.
- Perform discovery (with account team or with customer) to understand customer current-state, constraints and desired positive business outcomes.
- French language is essential for this position.
- Identify standard and custom services to align to customer outcomes.
- Build custom-scoped services engagement proposals for key strategic customers with guidance/review from Sr. Engagement Manager.
- Explain technical solution proposal to account team and/or customer.
- Meet and exceed set financial targets.
- Explain GitLab Services value proposition, catalog of service offerings, and methodologies.
- Explain standard packaged solutions to Customer to gain agreement to move forward.
- Help customer understand commercial terms - price, period of performance, payment/invoice structure, etc.
- Guide Account team to execute governing legal agreement to execute services.
- Coach Account Executives on how to include consulting and education services on quote/order form.
- Coordinate closing process with help from Account Executive.
- Coordinate staffing requirements with PS Operations team to ensure skillset, language, and timezone match are appropriate for each engagement.
- Handle standard objections related to price, DIY implementations, etc.
- Update quarterly bookings forecast on a weekly basis using Salesforce/Clari.
- Identify and communicate risks to account executives and EM leadership team.
- Build relationships with Account Executives, Customer Success Managers and Solutions Architects within their patch to ensure Global Services are included as part of the standard customer journey.
- Join Sales leadership forecast calls (within patch) to report on Services Forecast and to identify key customer accounts where services should be attached.
- Provide timely and predictable responses to incoming questions/requests from customers or account executives to reinforce positive brand of Global Services.
- Establish mentorship with more senior engagement manager.
- Setup individual development plan.
- Communicate trends in customer behavior to Practice Management team.
- 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 people from underrepresented groups are less likely to apply to a job unless they meet every single qualification. If you're excited about this role, please apply and allow our recruiters to assess your application.
- 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
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 people from underrepresented groups are less likely to apply to a job unless they meet every single qualification. If you're excited about this role, please apply and allow our recruiters to assess your application.
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