OpenAI

Account Director, Digital Native Enterprise

OpenAI$150K — $180K *
Enterprise Technology
8 - 10 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 8+ years in platform-as-a-service or software-as-a-service sales and renewals
  • Experience designing and executing complex deal strategies
  • Track record of supporting high-growth, high-performance companies
  • Experience collaborating with C-level executives
  • Ability to communicate technical concepts clearly to diverse audiences
  • Strong skills in market intelligence gathering and analysis

Responsibilities

  • Manage customer account portfolios with strategic account planning
  • Support customer engagement from initial contact to deployment and renewal
  • Collaborate with solutions and research engineering on complex customer programs
  • Achieve assigned revenue targets
  • Maintain and analyze revenue forecasts
  • Provide insights on account metrics to stakeholders
  • Monitor industry trends to inform product strategy
  • Assist in recruitment and onboard new team members
  • Contribute to cultivating company culture

Benefits

  • Hybrid work model with options for remote work
  • Relocation assistance for new hires
  • Collaborative environment with interdisciplinary teams
  • Opportunity to impact AI deployment for societal benefit
  • Access to cutting-edge technology and resources
Full Job Description
About the role

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 can be based in our San Francisco, New York, or Seattle offices. We are also considering applications to work remotely from within the U.S. We use a hybrid work model of 3 days in the office per week and offer relocation assistance to new employees.

In this role, you'll:
  • 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, expansion, 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

We're seeking someone with experience including:
  • 8+ 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


You might thrive in this role if you:
  • Are customer-centric. You are motivated to deeply understand your customer's priorities and help them achieve their vision for using our models to improve their products and services. You build strong relationships with executives and professionals across functions and serve as a trusted advisor.
  • Have a passion or deep curiosity in artificial intelligence. You embrace the opportunity to help deploy our technology in a way that benefits humanity. You're excited to educate our customers on AI and how to plan for the future.
  • Are a builder. You are excited to impact how our company operates and scales. Your passion is building strong systems and processes from the ground up and executing them with precision.
  • Are excited by new challenges. You don't have the answers to every question up front, but the process of solving them invigorates you. Bespoke issues requiring multidimensional knowledge excite you. You're willing to experiment with new solutions.
  • Are a strategist. You deeply understand go to market best practices and raise the bar for our organization. You think and plan forward on the order of years and bring internal and external stakeholders along with your strategy.

About OpenAI

OpenAI is an artificial intelligence research laboratory consisting of the for-profit corporation OpenAI LP and its parent company, the non-profit OpenAI Inc. The company was founded in 2015 by a group of technology leaders, including Elon Musk, Sam Altman, Greg Brockman, Ilya Sutskever, and John Schulman. OpenAI's mission is to develop and promote friendly AI for the betterment of humanity. The company has developed a number of cutting-edge AI technologies, including GPT-3, a language processing system that can generate human-like text. OpenAI has received funding from a number of high-profile investors, including LinkedIn co-founder Reid Hoffman and venture capitalist Peter Thiel.
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Size
100 employees
Industry
Founded
2015

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