Account Director, Digital Natives

Openai
São Paulo, Brazil
On-siteCareer-pivot friendly

Who this role is best for

Geared toward mid-level professionals comfortable with managing enterprise accounts and executing complex AI deployment strategies, with a focus on technical collaboration and bilingual fluency in a hybrid work arrangement in São Paulo.

Best fit for

  • Mid-level professionals with 10+ years of SaaS experience and a track record of managing large revenue targets
    — “10+ years selling platform-as-a-service and/or software-as-a-service
  • Candidates who thrive in cross-functional collaboration and have experience leading customer events
    — “Leading high-visibility customer events (CAB, conferences, product launches, etc.)
  • Individuals with strong market intelligence skills and the ability to influence product strategy
    — “Gathering, distilling, and processing complex market (industry, competitor, customer, prospect) intelligence

Things to consider

  • Hybrid work model requires 3 days in the São Paulo office weekly, which may be a logistical consideration.
    — “We use a hybrid work model of 3 days in the office per week
  • Bilingual fluency in Portuguese and English is mandatory, and interviews will be conducted in both languages.
    — “Please note that your resume must be submitted in English, and the interview process will include conversations in both languages.

How to stand out

  • Highlight experience in managing enterprise accounts and delivering long-term value-driven strategies.
    — “Manage key accounts, developing and executing strategies for a comprehensive account plan
  • Demonstrate expertise in translating technical AI concepts into business value for stakeholders.
    — “Communicating technical concepts to customers and internal stakeholders
  • Showcase ability to lead customer events and engage with C-level executives.
    — “Working directly with c-level executives
  • Emphasize your experience in building systems and processes from the ground up.
    — “Your passion is building strong systems and processes from the ground up
  • Demonstrate your ability to analyze and report on account metrics for internal and external stakeholders.
    — “Analyze key account metrics to create reports and provide insights to internal and external stakeholders
Pace · Fast PacedCollaboration · HighAutonomy · MediumDecision Impact · TeamLevel · Senior

Derived from job-description analysis by Serendipath's career intelligence engine.

What success looks like

  • successful sales cycles
  • high-value customer relationships
  • positive customer feedback
Typical background
enterprise salestechnical salesproduct management

Skills & requirements

Required

Sales StrategyAccount ManagementComplex Deal ExecutionTechnical UnderstandingAI Fluency

Preferred

Market AnalysisCustomer Journey MappingPresentation Skills

About the role

Original posting from Openai via Ashby

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 our São Paulo, Brazil office. We use a hybrid work model of 3 days in the office per week and offer relocation assistance to new employees. To succeed in this position you must be fully bilingual—fluent in both Portuguese and English (spoken and written). Please note that your resume must be submitted in English, and the interview process will include conversations in both languages.

In this role, you'll:

  • Manage key accounts, developing and executing strategies for a comprehensive account plan
  • Lead our enterprise customers’ journeys from ideation to successful deployment
  • Partner with solutions and research engineering to build and execute complex customer programs and projects
  • Own a consumption revenue target
  • Manage consumption 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:

  • 10+ years selling platform-as-a-service and/or software-as-a-service
  • Achieving revenue targets >$1M per year for more than 3 years
  • 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
  • Leading high-visibility customer events (CAB, conferences, product launches, etc.)
  • 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 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.

For additional information, please see OpenAI’s Affirmative Action and Equal Employment Opportunity Policy Statement https://cdn.openai.com/policies/eeo-policy-statement.pdf.

Background checks for applicants will be administered in accordance with applicable law, and qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment consistent with those laws, including the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers, and the California Fair Chance Act, for US-based candidates. For unincorporated Los Angeles County workers: we reasonably believe that criminal history may have a direct, adverse and negative relationship with the following job duties, potentially resulting in the withdrawal of a conditional offer of employment: protect computer hardware entrusted to you from theft, loss or damage; return all computer hardware in your possession (including the data contained therein) upon termination of employment or end of assignment; and maintain the confidentiality of proprietary, confidential, and non-public information. In addition, job duties require access to secure and protected information technology systems and related data security obligations.

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At 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. Join us in shaping the future of technology.

Source: Openai careers (Ashby)

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