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The SMB Regional Manager reports to the Sr Director, High Velocity Sales.
What you'll do- Drive, manage and execute the business and revenue of the region’s SMB business
- Prepare forecasts, territory/industry management, and growth plans
- Establish and report on metrics to measure team performance; correct deficiencies where necessary
- Anticipate problems and propose solutions related to sales operational changes (ex. quota, comp, territory carving, leads).
- Educate team on significant industry factors including competitive products, regulations, trends, customer needs, and pricing
- Build an innovative team of top talent motivated around driving SMB customer advocacy and making them fall in love with GitLab
- Provide ongoing coaching and mentorship to SMB Advocates, focusing on core competencies including discovery techniques, objection handling, product positioning, and consultative selling skills
- Implement comprehensive talent development and performance management frameworks to support individual team members in achieving and exceeding performance metrics and developing their careers
- Design and implement new ways of engaging with our SMB customers and ensuring their success, including role definitions, coverage and technology.
- Build, experiment and optimize playbooks for SMB Advocates to adopt in their low-touch, high-value functional and technical engagement with customers throughout their journey (consideration, conversion, adoption, expansion and renewal)
- Work cross-functionally to develop and operationalize strategies for new customer acquisition
- Proactively identify strategies, gaps and opportunities to influence product, marketing and GTM to drive SMB success, capturing feedback and acting as the voice of the SMB customer
- Experience selling to SMBs; willingness to “roll up your sleeves” and sell
- Proven track record of meeting or exceeding performance objectives (revenue targets, pipeline targets, etc.)
- Strong presentation skills; Executive level communication skills (both written and verbal) and the ability to mentor others
- Experience leading a front line customer facing team and owning key business performance outcomes. Proven track record of leadership driving innovation and change.
- Great project management skills. Ability to pull together disparate requirements, get agreement on priorities, communicate clearly and drive timelines.
- Strong analytical skills and structured thinking. You know how to use data from disparate sources into a vision for what we should do.
- Ability to develop and foster relations across the organization. (Including sales, product, marketing, customer success)
- Resourcefulness to get things done cross-functionally. Operational execution and troubleshooting by identifying issues as they surface; proposing and executing changes to fix root causes.
- Experience with GitLab use cases (SCM, CI, CD, DevSecOps, Agile Planning) to provide in-depth guidance and enablement
- Knowledge and understanding of the end-to-end software development lifecycle, continuous integration, continuous deployment and cloud computing
- You share our values, and work in accordance with those values.
- Ability to use GitLab
- Ability to travel if needed and comply with the company’s travel policy
- 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
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