Ecosystem Sales Manager

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About the role

Gitlab is hiring for the role of Ecosystem Sales Manager!

The work

Responsibilities of the Candidate

• Drive partner-sourced Scale pipeline generation through scalable partner programs, campaigns, and systematic account mapping initiatives.
• Collaborate with Scale Account Executives, Field Marketing, and regional sales leaders to integrate partners into territory planning and demand generation activities.
• Execute repeatable partner-led Scale campaigns aligned to regional territories, including industry plays, account blitzes, and market-specific roadshows.
• Identify whitespace and conduct detailed account mapping with partners to surface new logo opportunities and expand First Order reach.
• Build and maintain programmatic relationships with emerging partners, distributors, longtail partners, and hyperscaler partners such as Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Google Cloud, with a focus on new customer acquisition and marketplace transactions.
• Support partner enablement and activation programs to scale contribution across multiple partners, including hyperscaler co-sell and marketplace acceleration initiatives.
• Execute event-driven partner strategies, including partner alignment before events, lead capture during events, and pipeline conversion optimization after events.
• Manage one-to-many partner engagement through partner portals and automated systems, providing weekly pipeline forecasts, partner-sourced opportunity reports, and clear insights into campaign performance and territory impact.

Who they want

Requirements

• Experience in sales development, business development, or partner-driven pipeline generation in a B2B environment.
• Practical familiarity with partner ecosystems, including programmatic partner engagement and demand generation with distributors, long-tail partners, and hyperscalers such as AWS and Google Cloud.
• Ability to design, execute, and optimize scalable, campaign-driven approaches to demand generation, including 1:many partner engagement and event-driven campaigns.
• Experience using Salesforce and modern sales development or marketing automation tools to manage, forecast, and report on partner-sourced pipeline and campaign performance.
• Strong analytical skills to interpret campaign results, partner activation metrics, and territory impact, and translate insights into actionable plans.
• Effective written and verbal communication skills, with a focus on clear, repeatable messaging and collaboration with account executives, field marketing, and regional sales leadership.
• Interest in GitLab, open source software, and modern software development practices, with the ability to learn and use GitLab and related tools.
• Openness to travel for partner events and field collaboration, and to apply transferable skills from related sales, partner, or digital marketing roles in a remote, results-focused environment.