Senior Manager, Engagement Management

GitLab GitLab · Enterprise · United Kingdom · Consulting Delivery

Senior Manager, Engagement Management for GitLab's Professional Services business in Europe and Asia. This role focuses on managing a team that creates services proposals and drives customer value, reporting to Professional Services and shaping how GitLab supports customers adopting its AI-powered DevSecOps platform. Key responsibilities include managing engagement managers, professional services bookings, forecasting, coaching team members, and aligning with Sales and Customer Success.

What you'd actually do

  1. Manage a team of Engagement Managers responsible for consultative Professional Services selling across your region.
  2. Manage regional Professional Services bookings accountability and maintain a timely, accurate weekly forecast.
  3. Coach team members on pipeline generation, opportunity prioritization, customer discovery, scoping, estimation, statement of work creation, negotiation, and closing.
  4. Work with Sales Leadership and Customer Success leaders to align territory priorities, forecast updates, and services strategy.
  5. Distribute customer opportunities across the team to support balanced geographic or segment coverage.

Skills

Required

  • Experience managing, guiding, or delivering work in Professional Services or Customer Success environments.
  • Experience supporting Professional Services sales, including consultative selling and customer-facing solution discussions.
  • Ability to work effectively with Account Executives and other go-to-market partners during the sales process.
  • Knowledge of subscription-based business models across SaaS and on-premises offerings.
  • Capability to coach teams through complex negotiations, prioritization decisions, and structured deal execution.
  • Comfort using GitLab in day-to-day work and staying current with product releases and feature updates.
  • Skill in guiding distributed teams through clear communication, accountability, and asynchronous collaboration.

Nice to have

  • Openness to candidates with transferable experience from related services, customer-facing, or revenue-focused leadership roles.

What the JD emphasized

  • AI-powered DevSecOps platform
  • AI as a core productivity multiplier
  • incorporate AI into their daily workflows