Account Director - Qatar

Cognition
Doha, Qatar
On-siteCareer-pivot friendly

Who this role is best for

Technical sales professionals with enterprise software experience and ability to engage C-suite stakeholders will find this role in a fast-growing AI startup in Doha.

Best fit for

  • Candidates with a background in selling technical enterprise software and experience in software engineering or sales engineering roles
    — “You have technical experience - either as a software engineer, sales engineer or forward deployed engineer”
  • Individuals who have successfully navigated complex sales cycles with layered buying organizations
    — “Navigate layered customer organizations including working directly with C-suite executives, Tech and AI leaders, procurement and legal stakeholders”
  • Ambitious professionals with a demonstrated ability to learn and adapt in high-intensity environments
    — “Thrive in ambiguous and rapidly changing environments — you’re willing to move fast and quickly grow in scope and responsibility”

Things to consider

  • The role demands a high level of technical understanding and product feedback contribution
    — “providing critical product feedback to the Cognition team”
  • Candidates must be prepared to engage deeply with technical pain points in customer organizations
    — “Deeply understand the customer’s technical pain points and priorities”

How to stand out

  • Highlight experience in enterprise software sales with a focus on technical solutions
    — “successful candidates will have deep experience selling highly technical solutions to businesses”
  • Emphasize ability to work with C-suite and technical leadership in your sales achievements
    — “Navigate layered customer organizations including working directly with C-suite executives, Tech and AI leaders”
  • Showcase your ability to rapidly learn and adapt to new technical domains
    — “You have a demonstrated exceptional ability to learn”
  • Demonstrate a track record of revenue generation and sales cycle acceleration in fast-paced environments
    — “Focus on results - generate pipeline, revenue, and help build the best technical sales organization”
Pace · Fast PacedCollaboration · HighAutonomy · HighDecision Impact · Company

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What success looks like

  • driving revenue growth
  • closing enterprise deals
Typical background
technical salessoftware engineering

Skills & requirements

Required

SalesTechnical SalesEnterprise SalesProduct Feedback

Preferred

Founder ExperienceComplex Enterprise Software Deals

About the role

Original posting from Cognition via Ashby

WE ARE AN APPLIED AI LAB BUILDING END-TO-END SOFTWARE AGENTS.

We're the makers of Devin, the first AI software engineer.

Our team is extremely talent-dense. Among our founding team, we have world-class competitive programmers, former founders, and leaders from companies at the cutting edge of AI including Scale AI, Palantir, Cursor, Waymo, Tesla, Lunchclub, Modal, Google DeepMind, and Nuro.

Building Devin is just the first step—our hardest challenges still lie ahead. If you’re excited to solve some of the world’s biggest problems and build AI that can reason on real-world tasks, apply to join us.

ABOUT THE ROLE

As an Account Director, you will be responsible for sourcing, closing and activating enterprise customers, while providing critical product feedback to the Cognition team. You will be a crucial contributor to Cognition’s revenue growth and Devin’s development.

You’ll work closely with the whole Cognition team including engineering, product and go-to-market to accelerate the sales cycle and help build one of the fastest-growing AI startups.

Successful candidates will have deep experience selling highly technical solutions to businesses, have experience with software engineering and exhibit the drive and grit required to win consistently in a fast-paced, high-intensity environment.

In this role, you will:

  • Drive revenue for Cognition, owning the entire sales cycle, from prospecting through close and activation for early stage through enterprise companies
  • Navigate layered customer organizations including working directly with C-suite executives, Tech and AI leaders, procurement and legal stakeholders
  • Develop strategies for sourcing, demoing the product, and closing opportunities with layered buying organizations
  • Deeply understand the customer’s technical pain points and priorities, and qualify the best use cases and teams to deploy Devin to large technology organizations
  • Discover new use cases in our customers’ Tech organizations and overshare customer feedback with our product and engineering teams
  • Focus on results - generate pipeline, revenue, and help build the best technical sales organization to bring Devin to market

Requirements for the role:

  • Demonstrate a track record of success selling deeply technical products to enterprise customers
  • You have technical experience - either as a software engineer, sales engineer or forward deployed engineer. If not, you have an exceptional ability to learn and understand the complex technical problems and requirements our customers are trying to solve using Devin
  • Thrive in ambiguous and rapidly changing environments — you’re willing to move fast and quickly grow in scope and responsibility
  • You have a demonstrated exceptional ability to learn

You might excel if you…

  • previously founded a startup
  • successfully sourced and closed large, complex enterprise software deals
  • were a software engineer or sales engineer, or studied computer science, but moved into go-to market roles to be closer to the customer
  • are a competitive, highly ambitious person who loves working in high-intensity environments

EQUAL OPPORTUNITY

Cognition is an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, or any other protected characteristic under applicable law. We are committed to providing reasonable accommodations for candidates with disabilities throughout the hiring process - please let us know if you need any.

Source: Cognition careers (Ashby)

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