An overview of this role

The Customer Success Architect (CSA) team focuses on the themes of align, enable, and expand. The Customer Success Architect (CSA) is a highly strategic position designed to provide unparalleled value to our customers by aligning our platform with their unique business objectives and driving long-term success.

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

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.

Customer Success Architect, EMEA

EMEA

Remote

Senior

GitLab