Director, Strategic Partnerships

🕒 July 2

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GitLab

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1001 - 5000 employees

Founded 2014

💼 Consulting

📣 Marketing

🤖 Artificial Intelligence

💰 Secondary Market on 2020-11

Consulting • Marketing • Artificial Intelligence

GitLab is the most comprehensive AI-powered DevSecOps platform, offering tools for automated software delivery, security, and compliance throughout the software development lifecycle. It provides solutions across areas such as AI-assisted development, continuous integration/continuous deployment (CI/CD), source code management, and vulnerability management. GitLab aims to simplify and accelerate software delivery by uniting development, security, and operations on a unified platform. It is particularly recognized for its AI code assistants and has been named a leader in the Gartner Magic Quadrant™ for DevOps Platforms, making it a preferred choice for many enterprises.

📋 Description

• Serve as the primary owner and point of contact for one hyperscaler and one major AI lab, personally accountable for the direction, operating rhythm, and outcomes of each partnership, including the tactical work of keeping things moving week to week. • Develop and drive multi-year partnership strategies and joint plans that connect GitLab's business priorities, product roadmap, and AI strategy with concrete partner initiatives — and then own getting those plans executed. • Build strong working relationships across partner organizations, including executives, product management, engineering, sales, and marketing stakeholders. • Run a disciplined operating cadence across complex initiatives, with clear priorities, owners, timelines, coordination points, and follow-through you drive yourself. • Coordinate cross-functional work inside GitLab to support partnership goals, aligning teams across product, engineering, sales, marketing, and the executive group. • Translate partner opportunities and requests into actionable internal plans, including roadmap discussions, integration needs, commercial motions, and executive recommendations. • Track and communicate measurable partnership outcomes such as pipeline influence, annual recurring revenue impact, integration progress, and joint go-to-market execution. • Represent the partnerships at the executive level by preparing clear recommendations, briefing executives, and helping drive alignment on investments, trade-offs, and next steps.

🎯 Requirements

• Significant experience building and managing strategic partnerships, business development relationships, or alliance programs in enterprise software, cloud, and/or AI — with a track record of being in the details, not just setting direction. • Strong ownership mindset with the ability to operate as a single-threaded owner who is accountable for both strategy and execution, and comfortable doing the hands-on work personally rather than handing it off. • Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to distill complex partnership topics into clear recommendations for executives and cross-functional stakeholders. • Strong project and program management skills, including the ability to organize complex workstreams, prioritize effectively, and keep multiple initiatives moving through direct, hands-on management. • Technical fluency in software development, platform integrations, and the AI or machine learning landscape, with comfort engaging engineering and product counterparts in substantive conversations. • Experience working with senior stakeholders on high-visibility initiatives, including preparing executive briefings, framing recommendations, and driving follow-through. • Ability to influence without formal authority, build strong working relationships across internal and external teams, and navigate multiple priorities with sound judgment. • Familiarity with the DevSecOps ecosystem and a results-oriented approach to measuring partnership impact through business and product outcomes.

🏖️ Benefits

• 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