Customer Success Architect - Federal Government

About the Role: As a Customer Success Architect, you'll be a strategic advisor to some of GitLab's most important Federal Government customers, helping them connect our DevSecOps platform to their business goals and realise meaningful, long-term outcomes. You'll partner closely with customers after the sale to turn pre-sales command plans into concrete success plans, guide them along the customer journey, and drive hands-on enablement, adoption, utilisation, and maturity. You will act as their primary GitLab liaison for questions and escalations, coordinating across Product Management, Engineering, Sales, Professional Services, and Support.

What You'll Do

• Partner with customers to translate pre-sales command plans and desired business outcomes into actionable objectives and clear success criteria.
• Guide customers on how to best use the GitLab platform, including common DevSecOps best practices, Git workflows, CI/CD, and adoption patterns.
• Own a book of customers and drive adoption, retention, expansion, and overall satisfaction through ongoing strategic and technical engagement.
• Build and maintain Customer Success Plans, define critical goals and key performance indicators, and track progress with customers over time.
• Act as the primary GitLab liaison for assigned accounts, coordinating responses to questions, issues, and escalations.
• Provide hands-on technical enablement and onboarding, including education on new GitLab features, releases, and relevant use cases.
• Program manage account escalations, ensuring root causes are understood, follow-up actions are owned, and stakeholders are informed.
• Collaborate with Services and other internal teams to identify and recommend training, enablement, and maturity opportunities aligned to customer needs.

What You Bring

• Practical understanding of Git, common branching strategies, and modern software development lifecycles.
• Working knowledge of continuous integration, continuous deployment, and DevSecOps practices.
• Experience partnering with customers to define business outcomes and translate them into actionable success plans, key goals, and measures.
• Background in customer success, post-sales, or professional services roles focused on adoption, retention, and satisfaction.
• Ability to manage a portfolio of customers, including handling escalations and coordinating across Support, Product Management, Sales, and Professional Services.
• Strong communication, presentation, and organisational skills, with attention to detail and analytical thinking.
• Experience planning and managing projects or initiatives in technical environments, including identifying training and enablement needs.
• Flexibility to travel as needed according to company policy.

Benefits

• Flexible Paid Time Off.
• Team Member Resource Groups.
• Equity Compensation & Employee Stock Purchase Plan.
• Growth and Development Fund.
• Parental leave.
• Home office support.