Account Director, Startups

About the team

OpenAIs mission is to ensure artificial general intelligence (AGI) benefits all of humanity. This long-term undertaking brings the worlds best scientists engineers and business professionals into one organization.

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 includes Sales Solutions Support Marketing and Partnerships professionals who work together to create valuable solutions that help bring AI to as many users as possible.

About the role

OpenAI is seeking a highly motivated and experienced Account Director to join our Startup Go-To-Market team. You will play a critical role in owning relationships with top startup customers and supporting them in successfully building on the OpenAI platform.

Many of the most disruptive and category-defining AI applications are being created by startups. The Startup Go-To-Market teams mission is to help startups harness the power of OpenAIs technology to drive these advances. You will support startups in building effectively with OpenAIs APIs SDKs and applications while providing access to OpenAIs technical expertise and networks to help accelerate their progress.

This role is a mixture of technical understanding vision partnership and strategy. Youll be responsible for serving as the primary relationship owner for a range of strategically important startup customers. Youll also work cross-functionally with product research engineering support and technical solutions teams to help customers get the most out of our models.

This role will be based in Sydney.

In this role youll:

• Manage a portfolio of startup accounts developing and executing strategies for comprehensive account management.

• Partner with AI Deployment Engineers to drive successful technical engagements with startups.

• Own consumption and contracted revenue targets while managing revenue forecasts.

• Analyze key account metrics to create reports and provide insights to internal and external stakeholders.

• Collaborate with solutions marketing communications business operations people operations finance product management and engineering teams.

• Serve as an advocate for improving the startup experience of building with OpenAI synthesizing product feedback from insights gathered through our work with startups.

• Closely monitor the industry and startup landscapes and contribute to corporate strategy.

• Support the recruitment and onboarding of teammates.

• Support the development of company culture.

Were seeking someone with experience including:

• 712 years of experience selling platform-as-a-service (PaaS) cloud or other API products.

• Experience working in or around the startup ecosystem preferably as a startup founder startup employee or someone who has worked closely with startup customers.

• Supporting the growth and product development of fast-growing high-performing companies.

• Working directly with C-level executives and startup founders.

• Communicating technical concepts to customers and internal stakeholders.

• Gathering distilling and processing complex market intelligence across industries competitors customers and prospects.

• Nice to have: Experience supporting customers across Asia-Pacific in multiple markets and languages particularly Mandarin Chinese Korean and/or Japanese.

You might thrive in this role if you:

• Are customer-centric. You are motivated to deeply understand your customers 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 for or deep curiosity about artificial intelligence. You embrace the opportunity to help deploy our technology in ways that benefit humanity. Youre excited to educate customers on AI and help them plan for the future.

• Are a builder. You are excited to influence 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 dont have the answers to every question up front but the process of solving them energizes you. You enjoy tackling bespoke issues that require multidimensional thinking and are willing to experiment with new solutions.

• Are a strategist. You deeply understand go-to-market best practices and continually raise the bar for our organization. You think and plan years ahead and bring internal and external stakeholders along with your strategy.

About OpenAI

OpenAI is an AI research and deployment company dedicated to ensuring that general-purpose artificial intelligence benefits all of humanity. We push the boundaries of the capabilities of AI systems and seek to safely deploy them to the world through our products. AI is an extremely powerful tool that must be created with safety and human needs at its core and to achieve our mission we must encompass and value the many different perspectives voices and experiences that form the full spectrum of humanity.

We are an equal opportunity employer and we do not discriminate on the basis of race religion color national origin sex sexual orientation age veteran status disability genetic information or other applicable legally protected characteristic.

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