OpenAI - Account Director, Startups

• Manage a portfolio of startups accounts, developing and executing strategies for a comprehensive account plan • Partner with solutions architects to drive successful technical engagements with startups, accelerating their product development process • Own a consumption revenue target • Manage consumption 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 • Serve as an advocate for improving the startup experience building with OpenAI, synthesizing product feedback from insights captured from our work with startups • Closely monitor the industry landscape and startup landscape and contribute to corporate strategies • Support the recruitment and onboarding of other teammates • Support the development of company culture • We're seeking someone with experience including: • 6+ years selling platform-as-a-service, cloud, or other API products • Experience working in or around the startup ecosystem, preferably as either a founder of a startup, an employee of a startup, or someone who worked with startup customers • Supporting the growth and product development of fast-growing, high-performance companies • Working directly with C-level executives and startup founders • Communicating technical concepts to customers and internal stakeholders • Gathering, distilling, and processing complex market (industry, competitor, customer, prospect) intelligence • 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. • Are customer-centric. • 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. • Have a passion or deep curiosity in artificial intelligence. • 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 a builder. • 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 excited by new challenges. • 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. • Are a strategist. • 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.