Customer Success Manager, Japan

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The intelligent orchestration platform for DevSecOps
The Role
As a Customer Success Manager, you'll help customers leverage GitLab's DevSecOps platform, driving adoption and ensuring satisfaction through guidance and workshops while managing relationships with key stakeholders.
Summary Generated by Built In

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.

*Fortune 500® is a registered trademark of Fortune Media IP Limited, used under license. Claim based on GitLab data. Fortune 100 refers to the top 20% ranked companies in the 2025 Fortune 500 list, published in June 2025. Fortune and Fortune Media IP Limited are not affiliated with, and do not endorse products or services of GitLab.

An overview of this role

As a Customer Success Manager, you’ll help GitLab customers realize the full value of our DevSecOps platform by driving adoption, measurable outcomes, and long-term advocacy. You’ll serve as a trusted advisor to a portfolio of customers, guiding them on Git, branching strategies, software development lifecycle, continuous integration, continuous deployment, and DevSecOps best practices. In this role, you’ll connect customer goals with GitLab capabilities, lead workshops and Centers of Excellence efforts, and translate product usage data into clear, actionable recommendations for both customers and GitLab account teams. You’ll collaborate closely with Product Management, Engineering, Sales, and Professional Services, with success in your first year measured by customer satisfaction, retention, and the strength of the strategic relationships you build.

What you’ll do
  • Build and maintain a trusted advisor relationship with each assigned customer, focusing on adoption, measurable outcomes, and long-term satisfaction with GitLab.
  • Assist customers with expert deployment guidance, operational best practices, and establishing a GitLab Center of Excellence within their organization.
  • Lead and participate in workshops to help customers understand and use the full value of the GitLab solution across their software development lifecycle.
  • Measure and monitor customers’ progress against critical and key performance indicators, and share insights with GitLab account stakeholders and customer sponsors and executives.
  • Translate customer product usage data into clear, actionable recommendations that drive adoption and expansion of GitLab within customer environments.
  • Establish and manage regular touchpoints with customers in line with service level agreements to review strategic and technical objectives and adjust plans as needed.
  • Collaborate closely with Product Management, Engineering, Sales, and Professional Services to streamline issue resolution, share customer feedback, and align on customer success plans.
What you’ll bring
  • Experience in a customer-facing role focused on post-sales adoption, value realization, and advocacy.
  • Background in customer success, professional services, technical account management, or a related function with direct customer engagement.
  • Ability to understand and discuss Git, common branching strategies, and how customers use version control in their workflows.
  • Knowledge of the software development lifecycle, including typical development pipelines and tooling.
  • Familiarity with continuous integration, continuous deployment, and DevSecOps concepts and practices.
  • Skill in translating product usage data and technical details into clear, actionable insights for both technical and executive stakeholders.
  • Proven ability to build trusted advisor relationships, facilitate workshops, and guide customers through best practices and operational change.
  • Openness to learning, with transferable skills from adjacent roles or industries that support collaborative, outcome-focused customer partnerships.
About the team

The Customer Success Management team at GitLab works with customers across regions to drive adoption of the GitLab DevSecOps platform, measure and communicate outcomes, and build long-term advocacy. As a globally distributed, all-remote team, we collaborate asynchronously with Product Management, Engineering, Sales, Professional Services, and other groups to connect customer needs with GitLab’s product and services. We focus on helping our customers establish GitLab best practices, including Centers of Excellence, and on turning usage data into actionable insights that support strategic and technical objectives.

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 

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.

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.  

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GitLab is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and is an affirmative action employer. GitLab’s policies and practices relating to recruitment, employment, career development and advancement, promotion, and retirement are based solely on merit, regardless of race, color, religion, ancestry, sex (including pregnancy, lactation, sexual orientation, gender identity, or gender expression), national origin, age, citizenship, marital status, mental or physical disability, genetic information (including family medical history), discharge status from the military, protected veteran status (which includes disabled veterans, recently separated veterans, active duty wartime or campaign badge veterans, and Armed Forces service medal veterans), or any other basis protected by law. GitLab will not tolerate discrimination or harassment based on any of these characteristics. See also GitLab’s EEO Policy and EEO is the Law. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please let us know during the recruiting process.

Skills Required

  • Experience in a customer-facing role focused on post-sales adoption, value realization, and advocacy
  • Background in customer success, professional services, technical account management, or a related function with direct customer engagement
  • Ability to understand and discuss Git, common branching strategies, and how customers use version control in their workflows
  • Knowledge of the software development lifecycle, including typical development pipelines and tooling
  • Familiarity with continuous integration, continuous deployment, and DevSecOps concepts and practices
  • Skill in translating product usage data and technical details into clear, actionable insights for both technical and executive stakeholders
  • Proven ability to build trusted advisor relationships, facilitate workshops, and guide customers through best practices and operational change
  • Openness to learning, with transferable skills from adjacent roles or industries that support collaborative, outcome-focused customer partnerships

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GitLab Compensation & Benefits Highlights

  • Leave & Time Off Breadth Flexible PTO has no set annual cap and encourages roughly 25 days per year and at least two consecutive weeks, with clear guidance for coordination and coverage. Longer stretches are allowed within documented guardrails, supporting extended rest while maintaining team continuity.
  • Parental & Family Support Paid parental leave is set at 16 weeks globally at full pay, with a toolkit and re‑entry support that ease transitions. Policies explain coordination with statutory programs where applicable to keep pay whole.
  • Healthcare Strength U.S. offerings include multiple medical options (Cigna nationwide and Kaiser in select states), plus dental, vision, EAP, Modern Health, HSAs/FSAs with employer contributions, and a travel HRA. Benefits are organized for an all‑remote workforce with clear, self‑serve handbook guidance.

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The Company
San Francisco, CA
2,500 Employees
Year Founded: 2014

What We Do

GitLab is the Intelligent Orchestration Platform where software teams and their AI agents stay in flow to amplify their capacity for innovation. Together, they automate repetitive tasks to plan, build, secure, test, deploy and maintain software. With GitLab, software teams spend less time on coordination overhead and more time on the next big idea. What started in 2011 as an open source project to help one team of programmers collaborate is now the intelligent orchestration platform millions of people use to deliver software faster, more efficiently, while strengthening security and compliance. Since the beginning, we've been firm believers in remote work, open source, DevSecOps, and iteration. We get up and log on in the morning to work alongside the GitLab community to deliver new innovations every month that help teams and their AI agents ship great code faster.

Why Work With Us

GitLab is where careers accelerate, innovation flourishes, and every voice is valued. Co-create the future with us as we build technology that transforms how the world develops software.

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