Account Director, Digital Natives

About the teamOpenAI’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.About the roleOur 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 Munich. 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 planSupport your customer accounts from initial engagement to successful deployment and through to renewalPartner with solutions and research engineering to build and execute complex customer programs and projectsOwn a revenue targetManage revenue forecastsAnalyze key account metrics to create reports and provide insights to internal and external stakeholdersClosely monitor the industry landscape (people, competitors, partners, etc.) to contribute to product roadmap and other corporate strategiesCollaborate with solutions, marketing, communications, business operations, people operations, finance, product management, and engineeringSupport the recruitment and onboarding of other teammatesSupport the development of company cultureWe\’re seeking someone with experience including:4+ years selling and renewing platform-as-a-service and/or software-as-a-serviceHave full professional fluency in both German and English.Designing and executing complex deal strategiesSupporting the growth of fast-growing, high-performance companiesWorking directly with c-level executivesCommunicating technical concepts to customers and internal stakeholdersGathering, distilling, and processing complex market (industry, competitor, customer, prospect) intelligenceYou 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 OpenAIOpenAI 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 do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, veteran status, disability or any other legally protected status.OpenAI Affirmative Action and Equal Employment Opportunity Policy StatementFor US Based Candidates: Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.We are committed to providing reasonable accommodations to applicants with disabilities, and requests can be made via thislink.OpenAI Global Applicant Privacy PolicyAt OpenAI, we believe artificial intelligence has the potential to help people solve immense global challenges, and we want the upside of AI to be widely shared. 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