
Director, Customer Success, EMEA
Description
GitLab is looking for a Director of Customer Success to lead its EMEA Customer Success Management & Architecture (CSMA) and Customer Success Engineering (CSE) organisations in a fully remote role across Ireland, France, Germany, the Netherlands, Spain and the United Kingdom. The role owns the regional customer-success operating model across relationship management, adoption architecture, technical enablement, customer health and outcome realisation, bringing CSMA and CSE together as one integrated organisation. You will define the regional engagement model, coverage strategy, segmentation and capacity model, and establish a single view of the customer journey from onboarding through adoption, expansion and renewal. The role also owns operational excellence, including forecasting, customer health, risk management, capacity planning and a balanced scorecard, and improves data quality across Gainsight, Salesforce and reporting dashboards. You will lead through managers and senior leaders, recruit and develop leaders across EMEA, and partner closely with Sales, Renewal Management, Professional Services, Support, Product, Engineering and Marketing.
Requirements
- Significant leadership experience in customer success, customer experience, technical account management or a related post-sales function in enterprise SaaS or subscription software
- Experience leading both customer-facing relationship teams and technical customer-facing teams, ideally through managers and senior managers
- Track record of improving customer adoption, measurable outcomes, retention and expansion in complex enterprise accounts
- Experience designing or scaling coverage models across dedicated, pooled, digital or programmatic customer-success motions
- Strong understanding of customer lifecycle management, success planning, health and risk management, adoption metrics and renewal and expansion partnership
- Ability to lead technical and business conversations with senior customer stakeholders including executives and engineering audiences
- Strong operational discipline including forecasting, capacity planning, KPI design, data quality and inspection cadences
- Demonstrated ability to influence across Sales, Renewal Management, Professional Services, Product, Engineering, Support and Operations
- Experience hiring, developing and retaining distributed teams across multiple countries and cultures
- Excellent written, verbal and executive communication skills
- Experience with DevSecOps, the software development lifecycle, developer platforms or enterprise technology transformation
- Experience leading adoption of AI, developer productivity, security or platform capabilities
- Familiarity with customer-success platforms and revenue systems such as Gainsight and Salesforce
- Experience operating in a high-growth, global, all-remote company
- Experience building scaled enablement programmes, technical communities or pooled specialist models
Experience Level
InternEntry LevelMid-levelSeniorLeadExecutive
Benefits
Benefits to support health, finances and well-being
Flexible paid time off
Team member resource groups
Equity compensation and employee stock purchase plan
Growth and development fund
Parental leave

About the company
GitLabGitLab is an all-remote company providing a single DevSecOps platform for the complete software development lifecycle — planning, source code, CI/CD, security testing, and monitoring.
Size
Enterprise (5K+)
Employees
2,100
Tech Stack
RubyGoVue.jsPostgreSQLRedisSidekiqRailsKubernetesGCPPrometheusGrafana
GitLab is an all-remote company providing a single DevSecOps platform for the complete software development lifecycle — planning, source code, CI/CD, security testing, and monitoring.
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