Account Director, Government

OpenAI OpenAI · AI Frontier · Singapore · Go To Market

Account Director for Government sector, responsible for managing key accounts, driving sales cycles, and achieving revenue targets. This role involves understanding customer needs, partnering with technical teams to build solutions, and contributing to product strategy.

What you'd actually do

  1. Manage a focused set of key government accounts, developing and executing strategies for a comprehensive account plan.
  2. Lead our enterprise prospects’ journeys from consideration to successful deployment.
  3. Partner with solutions and research engineering to build and execute complex government customer programs and projects.
  4. Own a consumption revenue target.
  5. Manage consumption revenue forecasts.

Skills

Required

  • Sales experience
  • Account management
  • Government sector experience
  • Revenue target achievement
  • Deal strategy
  • Technical concept communication
  • Customer relationship management

Nice to have

  • Platform-as-a-service sales
  • Software-as-a-service sales
  • C-level executive engagement
  • Customer event leadership
  • Market intelligence gathering

What the JD emphasized

  • 10+ years selling platform-as-a-service and/or software-as-a-service specifically into government accounts
  • Achieving revenue targets >$1M per year for more than 3 years
  • Designing and executing complex deal strategies