Account Director, Mid-Market

Openai
Mumbai +1 more
Remote

Who this role is best for

Best suited to experienced sales professionals with AI and data expertise working in a collaborative, high-impact environment.

Best fit for

  • Experienced sales professionals with a background in AI and data who thrive in strategic, cross-functional roles.
    — “You’ll work with researchers, engineers, and solution strategists to help customers evolve their industry with AI.”
  • Candidates who are comfortable with building systems and processes from the ground up in a fast-growing organization.
    — “Your passion is building strong systems and processes from the ground up and executing them with precision.”
  • Individuals with a strong track record of managing mid-market accounts and leading high-visibility customer events.
    — “Leading high-visibility customer events (CAB, conferences, product launches, etc.).”

Things to consider

  • The role requires in-office presence for three days a week if based in an office location.
    — “we operate in a hybrid model of 3 days in the office.”
  • Candidates must be prepared to manage consumption revenue targets and forecasts.
    — “Own a consumption revenue target. Manage consumption revenue forecasts.”

How to stand out

  • Highlight your experience in shaping go-to-market strategies for AI and data products.
    — “Designing and executing complex go to market strategies.”
  • Emphasize your ability to build and execute customer programs with engineering and solution teams.
    — “Partner with solutions and research engineering to build and execute complex customer programs and projects.”
  • Showcase your track record of working with C-level executives and managing high-profile events.
    — “Working directly with c-level executives. Leading high-visibility customer events (CAB, conferences, product launches, etc.).”
Pace · Fast PacedCollaboration · MediumAutonomy · HighDecision Impact · Company

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

What success looks like

  • Achieved and exceeded sales targets
  • Developed and executed successful sales strategies
Typical background
Experience in enterprise salesStrong background in sales and customer relationship management

Skills & requirements

Required

Sales StrategyAccount ManagementNegotiationCustomer Relationship ManagementAI Sales Tools

Preferred

AI Product KnowledgeMarket Analysis

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

This role is part of our APAC Mid-Market team which will own both named account pursuits and executing programmatic sales via OpenAI partners.

You’ll be a key driver of writing the playbook for Mid-Market in APAC as an AI Native Sales team. You’ll work with researchers, engineers, and solution strategists to help customers evolve their industry with AI.

This role is based in India and can be based out of either Delhi, Mumbai or Bangalore. For locations with an office, we operate in a hybrid model of 3 days in the office.

In this role, you'll:

  • Manage a portfolio of accounts, developing and executing strategies for a comprehensive regional go to market plan.
  • Win lighthouse accounts through outbound sales outreach.
  • Partner with solutions and research engineering to build and execute complex customer programs and projects.
  • Own a consumption revenue target.
  • Manage consumption revenue forecasts.
  • Support the recruitment and onboarding of other teammates.
  • Support the development of company culture.

We're seeking someone with experience including:

  • 7+ years of direct selling experience in Data and AI or Cloud.
  • Designing and executing complex go to market strategies.
  • Orchestrating programmatic sales motions with partners.
  • Experience operating in fast paced, high growth environments.
  • Working directly with c-level executives.
  • Leading high-visibility customer events (CAB, conferences, product launches, etc.).
  • Hands on experience with AI tools.

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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