Account Director, Startups

About the team OpenAI’s mission is to ensure artificial general intelligence (AGI) benefits all of humanity. This long-term undertaking brings the world’s best scientists, engineers, and business professionals into one organization. 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 includes Sales, Solutions, Support, Marketing, and Partnerships professionals who work together to create valuable solutions that help bring AI to as many users as possible. About the role OpenAI is seeking a highly motivated and experienced Account Director to join our Startup Go-To-Market team. You will play a critical role in owning relationships with top startup customers and supporting them in successfully building on the OpenAI platform. Many of the most disruptive and category-defining AI applications are being created by startups. The Startup Go-To-Market team's mission is to help startups harness the power of OpenAI’s technology to drive these advances. You will support startups in building effectively with OpenAI’s APIs, SDKs, and applications while providing access to OpenAI’s technical expertise and networks to help accelerate their progress. This role is a mixture of technical understanding, vision, partnership, and strategy. You’ll be responsible for serving as the primary relationship owner for a range of strategically important startup customers. You’ll also work cross-functionally with product, research, engineering, support, and technical solutions teams to help customers get the most out of our models. This role will be based in Sydney. In this role, you'll: - Manage a portfolio of startup accounts, developing and executing strategies for comprehensive account management. - Partner with AI Deployment Engineers to drive successful technical engagements with startups. - Own consumption and contracted revenue targets while managing revenue forecasts. - Analyze key account metrics to create reports and provide insights to internal and external stakeholders. - Collaborate with solutions, marketing, communications, business operations, people operations, finance, product management, and engineering teams. - Serve as an advocate for improving the startup experience of building with OpenAI, synthesizing product feedback from insights gathered through our work with startups. - Closely monitor the industry and startup landscapes and contribute to corporate strategy. - Support the recruitment and onboarding of teammates. - Support the development of company culture. We're seeking someone with experience including: - 7–12 years of experience selling platform-as-a-service (PaaS), cloud, or other API products. - Experience working in or around the startup ecosystem, preferably as a startup founder, startup employee, or someone who has worked closely with startup customers. - Supporting the growth and product development of fast-growing, high-performing companies. - Working directly with C-level executives and startup founders. - Communicating technical concepts to customers and internal stakeholders. - Gathering, distilling, and processing complex market intelligence across industries, competitors, customers, and prospects. - Nice to have: Experience supporting customers across Asia-Pacific in multiple markets and languages, particularly Mandarin Chinese, Korean, and/or Japanese. You might thrive in this role if you: - Are customer-centric. You are motivated to deeply understand your customers’ 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 for or deep curiosity about artificial intelligence. You embrace the opportunity to help deploy our technology in ways that benefit humanity. You’re…