Senior Regional Marketing Manager, Emea

GitLab GitLab · Enterprise · EMEA · Remote · Regional Marketing

Senior Regional Marketing Manager for GitLab, an AI-enabled DevSecOps platform. This role focuses on driving pipeline growth in the EMEA region through integrated marketing programs, events, and digital campaigns, collaborating with Sales, Marketing, Product, and Ecosystem teams. The position requires strategic planning, execution, data-driven analysis, budget management, and cross-functional coordination. While the company heavily utilizes AI, this specific role is in marketing and does not involve building or shipping AI models.

What you'd actually do

  1. Manage EMEA regional marketing initiatives by creating detailed program plans and executing integrated campaigns that advance Sales and Ecosystem goals.
  2. Develop and run field marketing strategies across the region, using in-person and digital tactics to engage target audiences and increase pipeline growth.
  3. Continually test, learn, and improve programs to define best practices and evolve regional marketing as business needs change.
  4. Analyze performance and communicate the impact of regional marketing programs to different audiences, including local leadership and executive stakeholders, tailoring insights clearly for each group.
  5. Improve return on investment through disciplined planning, measurement, and management of regional marketing budgets and financial processes.

Skills

Required

  • B2B technology marketing experience with a focus on field or regional marketing
  • Close collaboration with Sales teams
  • Ability to create and execute marketing programs
  • Strategic planning
  • Strong attention to operational detail
  • Creative thinking
  • Build new programs from the ground up
  • Data-driven mindset
  • Use results and performance insights to guide decisions
  • Refine tactics
  • Shape strategy
  • Experience owning or supporting territory budgets
  • Allocating resources across tactics
  • Managing spend responsibly
  • Strong organizational skills
  • Strong communication skills
  • Turn complex ideas into clear content, presentations, and stakeholder updates
  • Ability to work in a fast-moving environment with many stakeholders
  • Work self-directed with minimal supervision
  • Build trust across teams
  • Proficiency with core collaboration and CRM tools (e.g., Salesforce, Slack, Google Workspace)
  • Familiarity with marketing automation, reporting, and project management tools
  • Understanding of Agile, DevOps, or the software development lifecycle

What the JD emphasized

  • EMEA region
  • pipeline growth
  • Sales and Ecosystem goals
  • field marketing strategies
  • in-person and digital tactics
  • target audiences
  • performance insights
  • regional marketing budgets
  • cross-functional collaboration
  • demand generation
  • field marketing plans
  • external agencies and third-party partners
  • travel as needed
  • up to 50% required