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GitLab seeks a Customer Success Architect to serve as a trusted advisor for key customers, focusing on building consultative relationships and driving adoption of DevSecOps best practices. The role involves owning a book of business, creating customer success plans, and collaborating with internal teams like Product Management and Engineering. The ideal candidate has deep knowledge of Git, CI/CD, and the software development lifecycle, along with prior customer success experience. This is a high-impact, technical customer-facing position within a fast-paced, AI-driven company.
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Dear Hiring Manager,
I am excited to apply for the Customer Success Architect position at GitLab. With a strong background in DevSecOps, a passion for guiding customers to achieve measurable outcomes, and proven experience in building trust with enterprise accounts, I am eager to contribute to your mission. My technical proficiency in Git, CI/CD, and the software development lifecycle, combined with my consultative approach, will allow me to serve as a valuable advisor to your customers. I thrive in collaborative, high-performance environments and would be honored to help accelerate your customers' success and growth.
Sincerely, [Your Name]
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I would start by conducting a discovery session to understand their specific barriers and objectives. Then I would map their goals to GitLab features, create a phased success plan with clear milestones, and provide regular check-ins, training, and enablement resources. I would also collaborate with internal teams to resolve any product or technical issues they face.
In previous roles, I have worked with organizations to integrate security into their DevOps pipelines, automating security checks and ensuring compliance. I would assess the customer's current maturity, identify gaps, and demonstrate how GitLab's built-in security capabilities can help them shift left. I would then help them establish metrics to track progress and align their leadership on the value of mature DevSecOps practices.
I use a structured approach with CSM tools and frameworks like a customer success plan and health scores. I prioritize accounts based on risk, revenue impact, and strategic importance, while setting clear expectations with each customer. I also communicate proactively with stakeholders to ensure alignment and adjust quickly when priorities shift, ensuring no account is neglected.
I once had a customer with declining usage and a pending renewal. I immediately scheduled a high-level executive session to uncover their dissatisfaction, which stemmed from poor onboarding and unmet custom requirements. I created a joint remediation plan with their team, involving the product and engineering teams to deliver the missing features. Within three months, adoption increased by 40%, and the customer renewed with an expanded contract.
I regularly review GitLab's release notes, participate in webinars, and engage with the internal product team to understand new features. I then map those updates to each customer's specific business objectives and communicate the value through personalized best-practice recommendations, renewal discussions, and success plans. This ensures customers see continuous innovation and ROI from their investment.
GitLab is the intelligent orchestration platform for DevSecOps. GitLab enables organizations to increase developer productivity, improve operational efficiency, reduce security and compliance risk, and accelerate digital transformation. More than 50 million registered users and more than 50% of the Fortune 100* trust GitLab to ship better, more secure software faster.
The same principles built into our products are reflected in how our team works: we embrace AI as a core productivity multiplier, with all team members expected to incorporate AI into their daily workflows to drive efficiency, innovation, and impact. GitLab is where careers accelerate, innovation flourishes, and every voice is valued. Our high-performance culture is driven by our values and continuous knowledge exchange, enabling our team members to reach their full potential while collaborating with industry leaders to solve complex problems. Co-create the future with us as we build technology that transforms how the world develops software.
*Fortune 500® is a registered trademark of Fortune Media IP Limited, used under license. Claim based on GitLab data. Fortune 100 refers to the top 20% ranked companies in the 2025 Fortune 500 list, published in June 2025. Fortune and Fortune Media IP Limited are not affiliated with, and do not endorse products or services of GitLab.
The CSA role is a pivotal addition to our customer success team, focusing on building strong, consultative relationships with our key customers. Our CSAs will serve as trusted advisors, leveraging their deep understanding of DevSecOps best practices, industry trends and our software capabilities to help customers navigate complex challenges and achieve their desired outcomes.
Additionally, our team serves as liaisons between the customer and the GitLab ecosystem, streamlining collaboration with Product Management, Engineering, Sales, Professional Services, and others. CSM handbook.
What You’ll Do
- Partner with our customers in taking what was established in the pre-sales command plan, and turning the customers desired positive business outcomes into actionable objectives
- Know the GitLab platform, our more common best practices, and use cases in order to guide the customer
- Understand the customer journey and be able to guide them on future adoption
- Act as the GitLab liaison for GitLab questions, issues, or escalations. Work with GitLab Support, Product Management (i.e., roadmaps), or other teams as needed
- Own a book of assigned customers, with a focus on increasing adoption, ensuring retention and growth, and overall customer satisfaction
- Remain knowledgeable and up-to-date on GitLab releases
- Provide immediate onboarding activities
- Work with assigned customers to build Customer Success Plans, establishing critical goals, or other key performance indicators and aid the customer in achieving their goals
- Program manage account escalations Provide insights with respect to the availability and applicability of new features in GitLab as relevant
- Support GitLab Services in identifying and recommending training opportunities
What You’ll Bring
- Understanding of Git and typical branching strategies
- Knowledge of software development lifecycle and development pipeline
- Understanding of continuous integration, continuous deployment, DevSecOps
- Prior experience in Customer Success or equivalent history of increasing satisfaction, adoption, and retention
- Experience partnering with customers to define and achieve business outcomes
- Familiarity working with customers of sizes relevant to the assigned segment
- Exceptional verbal, written, organizational, presentation, and communications skills
- Detailed oriented and analytical Strong team player but self-starter
- Project management experience & skills
- Strong technical, analytic, and problem-solving skills
- Alignment with our values, and willingness to work in accordance with those values
- Ability to travel if needed and comply with the company’s travel policy
- Demonstrated progressive experience in a related function is required with direct customer advocacy and engagement experience in post-sales or professional services functions
- Fluent German
About the team
The Customer Success Architect (CSA) team focuses on hands-on technical enablement, adoption, utilization and maturity – while maintaining strong customer relationships and business alignment.
How GitLab Supports Full-Time Employees
- 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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