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About the role
We are currently hiring a Field CTO to join our Strategic Field Organization at a Principal Solutions Architect level to be based in Australia or Singapore. This role reports into our Global Head, Field CTOs. The Strategic Field Organization is a team of Principal Solutions Architects that supports global strategic prospects and customers. This team collaborates with the regional account teams to work together on large engagements that require a high degree of strategic planning - such as DevSecOps transformation, solution recommendations, and advisory for our customer's senior technical leadership.
Field Solutions Architects (SA) are the trusted advisors to GitLab prospects and customers during the presales motion. We demonstrate how the GitLab platform and GitLab Professional Services address common and unique business requirements. Our Solution Architect team adds value to GitLab's customers by providing subject matter expertise and industry experience throughout the sales process and collaborating internally with the product.
Our Field SA's also engage proactively with existing GitLab customers to provide thought-leadership, engage in innovative solutions, collaborate around evangelism activities around unique customer requirements (i.e. meetups and presentations) and continuously seek market feedback to improve the GitLab platform.
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