Job Grade
The Director, Partnerships is a grade 10.
Responsibilities
- Identify and cultivate strategic relationships with current and potential technology partners and large enterprises.
- Develop (and act on) collaboration plans for key partners, and develop product adoption and customer success plans.
- Lead and develop differentiated relationships between GitLab and our technology partners' teams. This includes partners executive leaders, product managers, engineering, sales and marketing.
- Act as a liaison between internal teams at GitLab and strategic partners to communicate about feature requests, product roadmap, and how the alliance influences timing and direction.
- Understand the relative strength of competitors within strategic partners, if any.
- Evaluate effectivity of partner relationships and engagements in delivering positive ROI.
- Speak regularly in public as the voice for GitLab and the partner
- SA level expertise with GitLab AND the partners technology
Requirements
- You know the DevOps software ecosystem like the back of your hand.
- You’re comfortable with code, and enjoy talking with developers and engineering directors alike.
- You’ve shown that you can build long term (international) strategic relationships, preferably involving open source software.
- You share our values, and work in accordance with those values.
- Leadership at GitLab
- Ability to use GitLab
Career Ladder
The next step in the Director, Partnerships job family is not yet defined at GitLab.
Hiring Process
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We are an active participant in this community, trying to serve its needs
and lead by example. We have one vision: everyone can
contribute to all digital content, and our mission is to change all creative
work from read-only to read-write so that everyone can contribute.
We value results, transparency, sharing, freedom,
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boring solutions, and quirkiness. If these values match your personality,
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life, our story, and what makes us truly unique.
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- Mission: Everyone can contribute
- Results: Fast growth, ambitious vision
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- Transparency: Over 2,000 webpages in GitLab handbook, GitLab Unfiltered YouTube channel
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- Diversity, Inclusion & Belonging: A focus on gender parity,
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- Collaboration: Kindness, saying thanks, intentionally organize informal communication, no ego
- Total Rewards: Competitive market rates for compensation, Equity compensation, global benefits (inclusive of office equipment)
- Work/Life Harmony: Flexible workday, Friends and Family days
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