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The Customer Success Management (CSM) team is accountable for customer adoption, measurable outcomes, customer satisfaction, and creating true customer advocacy.

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

What you’ll do

• Establish a trusted/strategic advisor relationship with each assigned customer and drive continued value of our solution and services
• Assist and provide expert deployment, operational best practices, and establishing a GitLab Center of Excellence
• Assist in workshops to help customers leverage the full value of GitLab solution
• Measure and monitor customers’ achievement of critical and key performance indicators, reporting both internally to GitLab account stakeholders and externally to Customer Sponsors and Executives
• Translate customer product usage data into actionable advice for customers
• Establish regular touch points with assigned customers per the established SLAs, to review progress against strategic and technical objectives

What you’ll bring

• Demonstrated progressive experience in a related function is required with direct customer advocacy and engagement experience in post-sales or professional services functions
• Understanding of Git and typical branching strategies
• Knowledge of software development lifecycle and development pipeline
• Knowledge of and demonstrated progressive experience with Public Sector customers
• Understanding of continuous integration, continuous deployment, DevSecOps

How GitLab will support you

• Benefits to support your health, finances, and well-being
• All remote, asynchronous work environment
• Flexible PTO (paid time off)
• Team Member Resource Groups
• Equity Compensation & Employee Stock Purchase Plan
• Growth and development budget
• Parental leave
• Home office support

Hiring process

Candidates for this position can expect the hiring process to follow the order below. Please keep in mind that candidates can be declined from the position at any stage of the process. To learn more about someone who may be conducting the interview, find their job title on our team page.

Recruiter Screening

Qualified candidates will be invited to schedule a 30 minute screening call with one of our Global Recruiters.

Hiring Manager Interview

The hiring manager interview is the first of the interviews with the Customer Success Manager team. This interview is with the manager of the team the candidate is applying to join. It is a 45 minute interview.

Panel Interview

The panel interview consists of several members of the Customer Success Manager team. It typically includes the hiring manager and 1-2 other team members. This is a 90 minute interview, with the following format:

• A demo of GitLab based on the guidance provided ahead of the interview by the recruiter
• General discussion and questions from the panel

Executive Interview

Conducted by the Director of Success Services, this is a discussion with the candidate as a final assessment interview to evaluate the candidate’s suitability for the role. This is a 45 minute interview.

Reference and Background Check

Once the candidate has successfully completed all interview stages with positive recommendations at each stage, GitLab will complete reference checks and a background check.

The base salary range for this role’s listed level is currently for residents of listed locations only. Grade level and salary ranges are determined through interviews and a review of education, experience, knowledge, skills, abilities of the applicant, equity with other team members, and alignment with market data. See more information on ourbenefits and equity. Sales roles are also eligible for incentive pay targeted at up to 100% of the offered base salary.

California/Colorado/Hawaii/New Jersey/New York/Washington/DC/Illinois/Minnesota pay range

$77,000–$165,500 USD

Country Hiring Guidelines: GitLab hires new team members in countries around the world. All of our roles are remote, however some roles may carry specific location-based eligibility requirements. Our Talent Acquisition team can help answer any questions about location after starting the recruiting process.