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GitLabCustomer Success Architect
GitLab operates an intelligent orchestration platform for DevSecOps, helping organizations boost developer efficiency, accelerate digital transformation, and minimize compliance and security risks. Serving millions of users…
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GitLab operates an intelligent orchestration platform for DevSecOps, helping organizations boost developer efficiency, accelerate digital transformation, and minimize compliance and security risks. Serving millions of users and numerous top enterprises, the company champions AI integration as a primary productivity driver. As a Customer Success Architect, you will function as a strategic advisor for major enterprise clients, helping them align the platform with their organizational goals. Working within the North America…
Job Description
GitLab operates an intelligent orchestration platform for DevSecOps, helping organizations boost developer efficiency, accelerate digital transformation, and minimize compliance and security risks. Serving millions of users and numerous top enterprises, the company champions AI integration as a primary productivity driver.
As a Customer Success Architect, you will function as a strategic advisor for major enterprise clients, helping them align the platform with their organizational goals. Working within the North America Customer Success division and reporting to a Senior Manager, you will manage a designated portfolio of accounts. Your primary focus will be guiding post-sale adoption, retention, growth, and overall satisfaction by turning pre-sales plans into actionable milestones.
You will serve as the principal liaison for your assigned accounts, coordinating solutions across Support, Product Management, Engineering, Sales, and Professional Services. This position requires utilizing your knowledge of Git workflows, continuous integration, continuous deployment, and DevSecOps frameworks to lead structured accelerator programs and technical enablement workshops. Success in your initial year involves deepening client relationships, increasing platform utilization, and driving long-term business outcomes.
Responsibilities
- Manage an assigned portfolio of client accounts to drive adoption, retention, expansion, and satisfaction
- Lead structured accelerator programs spanning discovery, baseline establishment, milestone creation, and result documentation
- Design and deliver technical enablement programs such as discovery sessions, custom workshops, and asynchronous guidance
- Build and maintain customer success plans featuring critical goals and measurable performance indicators
- Act as the main point of contact for assigned accounts, coordinating answers and escalations across internal teams
- Analyze platform usage and maturity signals to spot risks and recommend next steps
- Lead account escalations by organizing technical context, communications, and clear exit criteria
Requirements
- Practical familiarity with Git, branching strategies, and modern software development lifecycles
- Working understanding of continuous integration, continuous deployment, and DevSecOps principles
- Experience guiding clients through technical or architectural decisions in enterprise settings
- Background facilitating technical workshops, enablement initiatives, and customer adoption programs
- Experience partnering with clients to translate business outcomes into actionable success plans
- Background in post-sales, customer success, or professional services environments focused on retention and adoption
- Capability to manage a portfolio of customers and coordinate across cross-functional teams
Qualifications
- Familiarity with planning and managing projects in technical environments, including identifying training requirements
- Alignment with company values and willingness to travel according to corporate policy
Core Skills
Benefits
- Flexible paid time off
- Team member resource groups
- Equity compensation and employee stock purchase plan
- Growth and development fund
- Parental leave
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What is the employment type for the Customer Success Architect role?
The position is a full-time role.
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The source posting does not specify a precise location, though GitLab operates as an all-remote company and the role reports into the North America Customer Success organization.
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