# Public Sector Strategic Account Executive, Federal Civilian

**Company:** [GitLab](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/gitlab)
**Location:** Remote
**Role:** Account Executive
**Salary:** $148k – $248k/yr
**Skills:** FedRAMP, DevSecOps, CI/CD, Software Supply Chain Security, Agentic AI, Federal Procurement, Consultative Selling, Account Planning, Pipeline Management, Executive Presentations
**Posted:** 2026-06-18

> Drive GitLab's growth across U.S. Federal Civilian agencies by selling the AI-powered DevSecOps platform, managing strategic accounts, navigating federal procurement, and aligning technical solutions with agency modernization and mission outcomes.

## Job Description

## What you’ll do
- Support and grow strategic prospects and customers across U.S. Federal Civilian agencies to expand qualified pipeline and account growth.
- Build and execute account plans for your book of business, aligning stakeholders, buying criteria, next steps, agency modernization priorities, and long-term technology roadmaps.
- Lead account direction across pre-sales and post-sales activities in partnership with Solutions Architects, Customer Success Managers, Professional Services, Marketing, partner teams, and sales management to enable rollout, adoption, and long-term customer outcomes.
- Drive prospecting, pipeline generation, opportunity development, and forecast updates to grow qualified pipeline and maintain forecast accuracy across large, complex accounts.
- Navigate federal procurement cycles and position FedRAMP-authorized GitLab solutions for security, compliance, modernization, and migration conversations.
- Develop consultative proposals, quotes, and executive presentations that align technical capabilities with agency mission needs.
- Represent the voice of the customer by submitting product ideas through GitLab's public issue tracker and contributing to win/loss analysis and internal learnings.
- Educate customers on GitLab's AI capabilities, including agentic AI use cases, and align those capabilities with developer productivity, security, operational efficiency, mission impact, adoption, and expansion outcomes.

## What you’ll bring
- Experience selling technology solutions into U.S. Federal Civilian agencies and understanding the federal public sector landscape, procurement vehicles, compliance requirements, and agency buying cycles.
- Ability to manage large, complex opportunities with multiple stakeholders and maintain strong ownership throughout the sales process.
- Skill in using a consultative sales approach to link technical decisions and platform value to agency mission outcomes.
- Strong communication, negotiation, presentation, and relationship-building skills, including with executive-level stakeholders.
- Ability to work effectively with minimal supervision in a distributed, asynchronous environment.
- Familiarity with DevSecOps, continuous integration and continuous delivery, secure software delivery, application lifecycle management, or related software development workflows, with comfort positioning FedRAMP-authorized solutions in regulated environments.
- Ability to translate AI and agentic AI capabilities into clear public sector value propositions.
- Alignment with GitLab's values and openness to bringing transferable experience from adjacent public sector or enterprise technology environments.

## Compensation
- Sales roles are also eligible for incentive pay targeted at up to 100% of the offered base salary.

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