Why This Job is Featured on The SaaS Jobs
This Account Director role sits at the intersection of enterprise SaaS selling and the current wave of AI platform adoption. OpenAI’s GTM function is positioned around helping customers deploy a technical product across real workflows, which makes the role less about transactional quota coverage and more about guiding evaluation, implementation, and ongoing commercial expansion in a platform context.
From a SaaS career standpoint, the scope across the full customer lifecycle builds durable operating leverage. Managing pipeline, forecasts, renewals, and expansion creates fluency in recurring revenue mechanics, while partnering with solutions and engineering strengthens the ability to translate technical capabilities into business outcomes. The emphasis on account planning, metrics, and market intelligence also maps well to future leadership paths in enterprise sales, revenue operations, or strategic accounts across B2B software.
The strongest fit is for a senior seller who prefers complex, multi-stakeholder deals and is comfortable working alongside technical teams to shape deployment success. It will suit professionals who like owning a portfolio, maintaining executive relationships, and using structured reporting to steer priorities, particularly in environments where the product surface area and customer use cases continue to evolve.
The section above is editorial commentary from The SaaS Jobs, provided to help SaaS professionals understand the role in a broader industry context.
Job Description
About the team
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.
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 is based in San Francisco, CA. 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
Develop new and existing accounts through pipeline generation, discovery, evaluation, and successful adoption
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:
9+ years selling and renewing platform-as-a-service and/or software-as-a-service
Managing and growing customer relationships across the full lifecycle
Developing accounts from early sales stages through successful deployment
Designing and executing complex deal strategies
Working directly with c-level executives
Communicating technical concepts to customers and internal stakeholders
Gathering, distilling, and processing complex market, industry, competitor, customer, and 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.
Compensation Range: $290K - $290K USD
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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