Customer Success Architect

An overview of this role

As a Customer Success Architect, you’ll be an architectural strategic advisor to GitLab's largest and most complex customers, helping them connect our DevSecOps platform to their business goals and realize 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, utilization, and maturity. Reporting into a Senior Manager within our North America Customer Success organization, you’ll own a book of customers, act as their primary GitLab liaison for questions and escalations, and coordinate with Product Management, Engineering, Sales, Professional Services, and Support so customers can navigate complex technical and organizational challenges with confidence.

You’ll use your understanding of Git, software development lifecycles, continuous integration, continuous deployment, and DevSecOps practices to help customers adopt best practices and stay current with new GitLab capabilities. In your first year, success looks like driving customer outcomes through technical workshops and architecture guidance, developing trusted relationships with key stakeholders, increasing adoption of the GitLab platform, and strengthening retention, growth, and customer satisfaction across your portfolio.

What you’ll do

• Lead structured Accelerator programs from discovery through measurement, including defining outcomes, establishing baselines, creating milestones, managing the customer collaboration backlog, and documenting results.
• 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 across Support, Product Management, Sales, and Professional Services.
• Design and deliver structured technical enablement programs, including discovery workshops, custom workshops, and asynchronous guidance, while maintaining clear boundaries between Customer Success advisory work and Professional Services implementation.
• Support and lead account escalations by coordinating technical context, follow-up actions, customer communications, and clear exit criteria.
• Analyze GitLab usage, adoption, and maturity signals to identify risks, prioritize interventions, and recommend next steps.

What you’ll bring

• Practical understanding of Git, common branching strategies, and modern software development lifecycles.
• Working knowledge of continuous integration, continuous deployment, and DevSecOps practices.
• Experience guiding customers through technical or architectural decisions in complex enterprise environments.
• Experience facilitating technical workshops, enablement programs, and structured customer adoption initiatives.
• 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 organizational skills, with attention to detail and analytical thinking.
• Experience planning and managing projects or initiatives in technical environments, including identifying training and enablement needs.
• Alignment with GitLab’s values and interest in applying transferable skills from related roles or industries, with flexibility to travel as needed according to company policy.

About the team

We are part of GitLab’s Customer Success organization. Our mission is to help customers align the GitLab platform with their business objectives through hands-on technical enablement, driving adoption, utilization, and DevSecOps maturity while building strong, consultative relationships.

As Customer Success Architects, we act as trusted advisors and key liaisons between customers and the broader GitLab ecosystem, collaborating closely with Product Management, Engineering, Sales, Support, and Professional Services to address questions, guide roadmaps, and navigate escalations.

We work in an all-remote, asynchronous way, coordinating across time zones to support a focused set of strategic accounts and ensure long-term customer success.