Manager, Customer Success Managers, EMEA

What you'll do

• Mentor and enable the team to exceed company growth and retention forecasts
• Work with the Customer Success Director to help establish and manage goals and responsibilities for CSMs
• Manage a team of highly motivated, customer-focused CSMs to manage the overall health and care of accounts (e.g., onboarding customers, stage adoption, executive business reviews, and successful renewals)
• Ensure the CSMs exceed GitLab expectations in core knowledge, communication, and execution
• Challenge the team and yourself to learn and grow as trusted advisors to customers continually
• Provide leadership and guidance to coach, motivate and lead the team members to their optimum performance levels and career development, providing timely feedback and development assistance
• Manage resource assignments and staffing levels, including recruitment as needed
• Identify and implement improvements to the processes and tools used
• Develop senior-level relationships with customers
• Partner with other team leaders to ensure the customer is supported in times of escalation
• Develop strong relationships with Engineering and Product to ensure cohesion and shared understanding of goals, initiatives
• Oversee initiatives set forth in the handbook
• Work together with the other managers to execute strategies and vision with the Director
• Represent GitLab leadership and reflect our values in internal and external interactions

What you'll bring

• Proven track record in software/technology sales, consulting or customer success
• Proven experience leading teams, driving software adoption, and building and scaling customer success management practices
• Experience with software development lifecycle processes and tools as well as agile and/or DevOps practices
• Knowledgeable with cloud/container technologies