Account Director, Digital Native

OpenAI•New York, NY

2d•Hybrid

About The Position

OpenAI’s mission is to build safe artificial general intelligence (AGI) which benefits all of humanity. This long-term undertaking brings the world’s best scientists, engineers, and business professionals into one lab together to accomplish this. In pursuit of this mission, our Go To Market (GTM) team is responsible for helping customers learn how to leverage and deploy our highly capable AI products across their business. The team is made of Sales, Solutions, Support, Marketing, and Partnership professionals that work together to create valuable solutions that will help bring AI to as many users as possible. Our Sales team has a unique mission to help customers understand the deep impact that highly capable AI models can bring to their business and users. This role is a mixture of technical understanding, vision, partnership, and value-driven strategy. You’ll be a key driver of opportunities through the entire sales cycle, from pipeline generation to closure. You’ll work with researchers, engineers, and solution strategists to help customers evolve their industry with AI. This role is based in New York City. We use a hybrid work model of 3 days in the office per week and offer relocation assistance to new employees.

Requirements

14+ years selling and renewing platform-as-a-service and/or software-as-a-service
Designing and executing complex deal strategies
Supporting the growth of fast-growing, high-performance companies
Working directly with c-level executives
Communicating technical concepts to customers and internal stakeholders
Gathering, distilling, and processing complex market (industry, competitor, customer, prospect) intelligence

Responsibilities

Manage a portfolio of customer accounts, developing and executing strategies for a comprehensive account plan
Support your customer accounts from initial engagement to successful deployment and through to renewal
Partner with solutions and research engineering to build and execute complex customer programs and projects
Own a revenue target
Manage revenue forecasts
Analyze key account metrics to create reports and provide insights to internal and external stakeholders
Closely monitor the industry landscape (people, competitors, partners, etc.) to contribute to product roadmap and other corporate strategies
Collaborate with solutions, marketing, communications, business operations, people operations, finance, product management, and engineering
Support the recruitment and onboarding of other teammates
Support the development of company culture