Regional Sales Director, Public Sector - DoW

An overview of this role

As the Director of Regional Sales, you will lead a high-performing, field-based sales organization focused on GitLab's rapidly growing Department of War (DoW) federal business. You'll be accountable for driving new and expansion revenue across the DoW, acting as a co-captain with senior leadership while managing, coaching, and growing a team of Account Executives. You'll spend meaningful time in the field with key accounts, own large deal strategy and C-level negotiations, and guide your team through complex federal procurement motions, including distributors, partners, contracting vehicles, and funding cycles. By partnering closely with Renewals, Customer Success, Product, and Marketing, you'll align our go-to-market approach for regulated environments, ensure our FedRAMP-authorized offerings and roadmap reflect agency needs, and build durable, land-and-expand growth across large, federated public sector organizations.

What you'll do

• Lead, recruit, hire, and coach a high-performing team of Account Executives covering Department of War (DoW) to achieve regional revenue and growth targets while fostering an accountable, inclusive, high-performance culture across an all-remote organization.

• Drive strategy and execution for new business and expansion, generating, progressing, and converting pipeline across key DoW accounts to meet or exceed quarterly and annual bookings targets.

• Own regional forecasting, inspection rigor, opportunity hygiene, and MEDDPICC-based deal qualification so senior leadership has clear visibility into pipeline health, commit, and risk and the team improves win rates and shortens sales cycles.

• Lead and execute complex federal procurement motions, working with distributors and partners such as Carahsoft and systems integrators and navigating contracting vehicles, funding cycles, and agency-specific buying processes to secure new multi-year contracts and expansions.

• Drive go-to-market strategy for regulated environments, shaping FedRAMP-authorized offerings and mission-critical DevSecOps use cases across  accounts to increase platform adoption and usage in priority accounts.

• Collaborate closely with Renewals, Customer Success, Marketing, Product, and our federal distributor and systems integrator ecosystem to align on account plans, translate field requirements into road