What are the responsibilities and job description for the Renewals Manager position at GitLab?
Renewals Manager
The Renewals Manager reports to the Manager, Renewals or Senior Manager, Renewals.
Renewals Manager Responsibilities
- Maximize customer retention rates through effective sales techniques over the phone, video and email while also minimizing customer churn and contraction.
- Execute the renewal process to ensure ARR is retained or expanded
- Evaluate license usage and complete the true-up requirements
- Understand and align customer’s business needs and goals to generate renewal quotes
- Provide renewals adminstration support to Renewals Managers, and Account Executives
- Ensure that renewals are closed on a timely basis
- Collaborate with Sales and Customer Success Managers on renewals strategy and plans, leveraging customer analytics and metrics
- Liaise with customers to ensure POs and order forms are accurately completed to allow for internal deal approval
- Additional customer relationship developing responsiblities
- Ability to identify opportunity and customer level risk and coordinate the mitigation
- Provide renewals coverage on larger, more strategic customers
Renewals Manager Requirements
- Related sales or related customer experience (examples SDR, BDR, sales ops, deal desk, customer service, CSM)
- Demonstrated progressive experience with B2B software sales
- Experience with subscription GTM approaches for customer success management and renewals
- Effective communicator, strong interpersonal and collaboration skills
- Motivated, driven and results-oriented
- Strong negotiation, presentation and closing skills
- Preferred experience with technical products. Experience with DevOps, software development lifecycle, or application development is a plus.
- You share our values, and work in accordance with those values.
- Experienced in driving renewals with predictability and delivering to targeted gross retention rates
- Experienced in managing a customer relationship from a similar role (e.g., Customer Success Manager, SDR, BDR)
Performance Indicators
- Gross renewal rate
- Net ARR in alignment with our renewals policy
- Churn and contraction rate
- Customer Satisfaction
Hiring Process
Candidates for this position can expect the hiring process to follow the order below. Please keep in mind that candidates can be declined from the position at any stage of the process. Qualified candidates will be invited to schedule a 30 minute screening call with one of our Global Recruiters. Next, qualified candidates will be invited to interview with 2 - 4 team members. Next, qualified candidates will have a final interview with an executive. Additional details about our process can be found on our hiring page.
About GitLab
GitLab Inc. is a company based on the GitLab open-source project. GitLab is a community project to which over 2,200 people worldwide have contributed. We are an active participant in this community, trying to serve its needs and lead by example. We have one vision: everyone can contribute to all digital content, and our mission is to change all creative work from read-only to read-write so that everyone can contribute.
We value results, transparency, sharing, freedom, efficiency, self-learning, frugality, collaboration, directness, kindness, diversity, inclusion and belonging, boring solutions, and quirkiness. If these values match your personality, work ethic, and personal goals, we encourage you to visit our primer to learn more. Open source is our culture, our way of life, our story, and what makes us truly unique.
Top 10 Reasons to Work for GitLab:
- Mission: Everyone can contribute
- Results: Fast growth, ambitious vision
- Flexible Work Hours: Plan your day so you are there for other people & have time for personal interests
- Transparency: Over 2,000 webpages in GitLab handbook, GitLab Unfiltered YouTube channel
- Iteration: Empower people to be effective & have an impact, Merge Request rate, We dogfood our own product, Directly responsible individuals
- Diversity, Inclusion & Belonging: A focus on gender parity, Team Member Resource Groups, other initiatives
- Collaboration: Kindness, saying thanks, intentionally organize informal communication, no ego
- Total Rewards: Competitive market rates for compensation, Equity compensation, global benefits (inclusive of office equipment)
- Work/Life Harmony: Flexible workday, Family and Friends days
- Remote Done Right: One of the world's largest all-remote companies, prolific inventor of remote best practices
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