Senior Ecosystems Sales Manager: Scale, India

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About the Team

GitLab's APJ Ecosystem team builds and scales the partner (channel, alliance, and hyperscaler) motion across the region. India is a strategic market for GitLab, and this hire is central to strengthening our partner ecosystem there — deepening a smaller number of high-value partnerships rather than spreading thin across many transactional ones.

About the Role

The Scale Ecosystem Sales Manager (ESM), India is a senior, market-facing role responsible for building and scaling GitLab's partner business in India across the full breadth of the ecosystem. This role focuses on new logo acquisition and aligns closely with our new business team in India. This will involve working with hyperscalers, India-centric system integrators (SIs), and born-in-the-cloud / AI-native partners. We are looking for someone with the range and seniority to credibly own strategic partner relationships across all of these partner types, and to help grow our business through these partners.

This is a senior individual-contributor role for someone who has already built a career scaling partner-sourced and influenced revenue in India — someone who knows the hyperscaler ecosystem (AWS & GCP), has deep, credible relationships with India's major SIs, and understands how to engage newer-generation cloud-native and AI partners as they become an increasingly important part of the go-to-market.

What You'll Do

• Build and scale GitLab's partner-sourced and influence business in India across hyperscalers, large India-centric SIs, and born-in-the-cloud/AI partners.
• Develop deep, strategic (not transactional) relationships with a focused set of priority partners — joint business plans, QBRs, and named executive sponsorship.
• Own hyperscaler relationship management and Marketplace motion with AWS and/OR GCP.
• Build and grow relationships with major India SIs and market-making channel/born-in-the-cloud partners and emerging AI-native partners.
• Drive partner-sourced pipeline and bookings, and carry a quota tied to partner-sourced/generated revenue.
• Partner closely with the India sales team to ensure partner-sourced opportunities are properly identified, supported, and closed.
• Work with the India and APJ Ecosystem team to help shape and refine the India Ecosystem coverage model.
• Contribute to partner enablement, certification, and go-to-market programs suited to the India market.
• Report on partner engagement health, pipeline contribution, and progress against strategic-partner milestones.

What We're Looking For

• 15+ years of experience in channel/alliance/partner management or ecosystem sales, ideally within enterprise software, DevOps, or cloud infrastructure.
• Extensive, well-rounded experience scaling a business through partners across hyperscalers, large India-centric SIs, and born-in-the-cloud/AI-native partners — not narrowly specialized in just one partner type.
• Direct experience managing hyperscaler relationships (AWS, GCP, and/or Azure) including Marketplace motion.
• A strong, credible existing network among India's major SIs and cloud-native/channel partners, with a track record of moving relationships from transactional to strategic.
• Comfort carrying a partner-sourced revenue quota and being measured on pipeline origination, not just deal closure.
• Strong stakeholder management skills — able to align internal sales, marketing, and partner-side stakeholders around joint goals.
• Native or business-fluent Hindi and strong business English (for regional collaboration with APJ leadership).
• Based in or willing to relocate to Mumbai OR Delhi.

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