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Director, Regional Sales - New Business Japan

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An Overview of This Role

As the Director, Regional Sales - New Business, you'll build and lead a dedicated function focused on driving new logo growth across Japan. You'll report to the Director of APJ for New Business and will hire, develop, and coach a high-performing team of Account Executives to win first-order deals across more than 24,000 in-ICP accounts, from whitespace to existing installs, with an average deal size up to 25,000. You'll define and execute a scalable sales strategy for a fast-moving, high-volume territory. You'll use tools like Salesforce, Clari, Gong, and Outreach to build predictable pipeline, shorten deal cycles to 6 months or less, and consistently meet or exceed new business goals. It's a rare opportunity to help shape, operationalize, and scale a sales motion focused on new business in a growing, high-impact market while you collaborate closely with cross-functional partners to bring GitLab's DevSecOps platform to new customers across Japan.

What You'll Do

• Lead a distributed team of Account Executives across Japan focused on winning new logos and driving first-order revenue.
• Develop and execute a scalable new business sales strategy for Japan, covering both installed base and whitespace accounts within our ideal customer profile.
• Drive consistent pipeline generation and deal progression across a high volume of target accounts, with an emphasis on predictable new logo performance and efficient deal cycles.
• Collaborate closely with marketing, sales operations, and enablement to design and optimize motions, campaigns, and processes that support new business growth.
• Use CRM and sales enablement tools such as Salesforce, Clari, Gong, and Outreach to inspect pipeline, forecast accurately, and coach your team based on data-driven insights.
• Hire, onboard, and develop a high-performing sales team, providing regular coaching on territory planning, opportunity management, negotiation, and deal structure.
• Partner with regional and global sales leadership to help define, refine, and scale this sales function, sharing learnings and best practices across teams.
• Represent GitLab and our open source, DevSecOps, and SaaS offerings with executive-level stakeholders in Japan, reinforcing our value proposition and long-term partnerships.

What You'll Bring

About the Team

The Regional Sales New Business team at GitLab focuses on acquiring new logos and accelerating first-order revenue across Japan. We work closely with the Director of APJ for New Business and other sales, marketing, and operations partners. As an all-remote, distributed team based across Japan, we collaborate asynchronously. We prioritize the highest-potential accounts within a large ideal customer profile, build scalable processes, and refine a repeatable new business motion. As a growing function, we are focused on defining our operating model, hiring and developing Account Executives, and establishing the structure, tools, and best practices needed to build and scale a high-performing new business engine for GitLab in Japan.

How GitLab Will Support You

Please note that we welcome interest from candidates with varying levels of experience; many successful candidates do not meet every single requirement. Additionally, studies have shown that people from underrepresented groups are less likely to apply to a job unless they meet every single qualification. If you're excited about this role, please apply and allow our recruiters to assess your application.

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