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An overview of this role
As an Engagement Manager, Professional Services, you will help drive GitLab's growth by shaping services engagements that create strong partnerships and mutual success with our customers. You will scope outcome-oriented professional services engagements that turn complex DevSecOps and software delivery initiatives into clear, measurable business outcomes. Reporting to the Senior Manager, Engagement Management, you will work at the intersection of technical solutioning and commercial scoping, advancing opportunities within your assigned territory. In this role, you will conduct discovery, build tailored proposals, and partner with account teams to attach services to strategic deals. As you grow in the role, you will deepen your knowledge of GitLab's services offerings, strengthen your scoping and commercial skills, and build strong relationships with both internal stakeholders and customer teams. This is an opportunity to help customers move from plan to execution with services engagements designed for long-term success.
- Conducting discovery and structuring outcome-oriented professional services engagements that align GitLab capabilities with customer business outcomes
- Partnering with account executives, solutions architects, and delivery stakeholders to turn DevSecOps and platform adoption initiatives into clear, actionable proposals and statements of work
- Perform discovery with account teams and customers to understand current capabilities, constraints, and desired business outcomes.
- Design standard and custom services proposals aligned to customer goals, clear success measures, and implementation needs.
- Build and present scoped services engagements and packaged solutions to customers and internal stakeholders to gain alignment and move opportunities forward.
- Guide customers and account teams through services value, commercial terms, agreements, and the quote and order process to support deal closure.
- Coordinate with Professional Services Operations and delivery partners to align staffing, skillsets, language, and time zone coverage for each engagement.
- Address pricing and implementation objections, and identify engagement and delivery risks early to keep opportunities progressing.
- Meet assigned financial targets and maintain an accurate services forecast using Salesforce and Clari.
- Build strong cross-functional relationships, provide responsive support to internal and customer stakeholders, and relay customer trends to improve services offerings and the customer journey.
- Experience with professional services selling processes, including discovery, scoping, proposal development, and the fundamentals of commercial structuring.
- Experience using Salesforce for opportunity management, forecasting, and quoting.
- Experience working in a pre-sales setting and helping develop statements of work for implementation projects.
- A working understanding of the software development lifecycle, DevOps practices, and cloud transformation efforts, with the ability to relate technical solutions to business outcomes.
- Strong communication and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to build strong working relationships with account teams and customer stakeholders.
- Developing facilitation, negotiation, and problem-solving skills, along with the judgment to know when to consult more experienced team members.
- Comfort working cross-functionally with sales, solutions architecture, delivery, and operations teams to align on deal strategy, staffing, and execution.
- The ability to work effectively with minimal supervision in a fully remote, asynchronous environment while managing multiple opportunities and maintaining accurate forecasting.
About the team
The Professional Services Engagement Management team at GitLab is focused on designing and structuring services engagements that help customers achieve successful, long-term adoption of our intelligent DevSecOps platform.
This team works closely with customers and field teams to assess goals, uncover services needs, and translate complex transformation initiatives into clear, outcome-oriented engagement plans. Composed of services, consulting, and delivery professionals across multiple regions, the team operates asynchronously to assist account teams, shape implementation strategies, and help customers move smoothly through their services journey. They focus on building scalable engagement models, maintaining open communication with internal stakeholders, and adapting services approaches to meet the needs of a growing and evolving business.
The base salary range for this role’s listed level is currently for residents of the United States only. This range is intended to reflect the role's base salary rate in locations throughout the US. 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, alignment with market data, and geographic location. The base salary range does not include any bonuses, equity, or benefits. See more information on our benefits and equity. Sales roles are also eligible for incentive pay targeted at up to 100% of the offered base salary.
- 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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Skills Required
- Experience with professional services selling processes (discovery, scoping, proposal development, commercial structuring)
- Experience using Salesforce for opportunity management, forecasting, and quoting
- Experience maintaining services forecast using Clari
- Experience working in a pre-sales setting and developing statements of work for implementation projects
- Working understanding of the software development lifecycle, DevOps/DevSecOps practices, and cloud transformation
- Strong communication and stakeholder management skills
- Facilitation, negotiation, and problem-solving skills with good judgment on escalation
- Ability to work cross-functionally with sales, solutions architecture, delivery, and operations teams
- Ability to work effectively with minimal supervision in a fully remote, asynchronous environment while managing multiple opportunities
What the Team is Saying
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Healthcare Strength — Health coverage includes multiple national medical plan options (Cigna EPO/HDHP/PPO and Kaiser in select areas) with separate dental and vision, alongside EAP and dedicated mental‑health support. Company‑paid life/AD&D and disability protections further strengthen the overall safety net.
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Parental & Family Support — Paid parental leave offers 16 weeks at 100% of base pay from day one, with flexibility to use leave in segments and a supported ramp‑back period. Coaching and resources for new parents add structure to planning and return.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Flexible Paid Time Off is complemented by defined sick, caregiving, bereavement, volunteer, and civic leave options. Public holidays are handled flexibly so individuals can observe dates most relevant to them.
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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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