Engagement Manager - French Speaking

GitLab is the intelligent orchestration platform for DevSecOps. GitLab enables organizations to increase developer productivity, improve operational efficiency, reduce security and compliance risk, and accelerate digital transformation. More than 50 million registered users and more than 50% of the Fortune 100* trust GitLab to ship better, more secure software faster. The same principles built into our products are reflected in how our team works: we embrace AI as a core productivity multiplier, with all team members expected to incorporate AI into their daily workflows to drive efficiency, innovation, and impact. GitLab is where careers accelerate, innovation flourishes, and every voice is valued. Our high-performance culture is driven by our values and continuous knowledge exchange, enabling our team members to reach their full potential while collaborating with industry leaders to solve complex problems. Co-create the future with us as we build technology that transforms how the world develops software. * Fortune 500® is a registered trademark of Fortune Media IP Limited, used under license. Claim based on GitLab data. Fortune 100 refers to the top 20% ranked companies in the 2025 Fortune 500 list, published in June 2025. Fortune and Fortune Media IP Limited are not affiliated with, and do not endorse products or services of GitLab. An overview of this role The Engagement Manager plays the critical role in helping Customers drive adoption of high value functionality of the GitLab platform. The Engagement Manager plays a sales overlay role by shaping customer engagements focused helping customers accelerated toward their positive business outcomes with GitLab. The Engagement Manager serves as a trusted advisor to customers in their portfolio, providing guidance to Sales, Customer Success and Professional Services Delivery team and ensuring the highest levels of customer satisfaction. • Perform discovery (with account team or with customer) to understand customer current-state, constraints and desired positive business outcomes. • French language is essential for this position. • Identify standard and custom services to align to customer outcomes. • Build custom-scoped services engagement proposals for key strategic customers with guidance/review from Sr. Engagement Manager. • Explain technical solution proposal to account team and/or customer. • Meet and exceed set financial targets. • Explain GitLab Services value proposition, catalog of service offerings, and methodologies. • Explain standard packaged solutions to Customer to gain agreement to move forward. • Help customer understand commercial terms - price, period of performance, payment/invoice structure, etc. • Guide Account team to execute governing legal agreement to execute services. • Coach Account Executives on how to include consulting and education services on quote/order form. • Coordinate closing process with help from Account Executive. • Coordinate staffing requirements with PS Operations team to ensure skillset, language, and timezone match are appropriate for each engagement. • Handle standard objections related to price, DIY implementations, etc. • Update quarterly bookings forecast on a weekly basis using Salesforce/Clari. • Identify and communicate risks to account executives and EM leadership team. • Build relationships with Account Executives, Customer Success Managers and Solutions Architects within their patch to ensure Global Services are included as part of the standard customer journey. • Join Sales leadership forecast calls (within patch) to report on Services Forecast and to identify key customer accounts where services should be attached. • Provide timely and predictable responses to incoming questions/requests from customer