Account Director, Federal Civilian

OpenAI Federal Sales Role

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 organization. The team comprises Sales, Solutions, Support, Marketing, and Partnership professionals who collaborate to create valuable solutions that will help bring AI to as many users as possible.

Our Federal Sales team has a unique mission to help government customers understand the transformative impact that highly capable AI models can bring to their agencies and missions. This role combines technical understanding, strategic vision, partnership management, and value-driven strategy tailored specifically to federal customers.

You'll drive key opportunities through the entire federal sales cycle, from pipeline generation to closure. You'll collaborate closely with researchers, engineers, and solution strategists to help government customers advance their missions through AI.

This role is a remote role based in Washington, DC.

In this role, you'll :

• Manage a focused set of key federal accounts, developing and executing comprehensive federal account plans.
• Lead federal customers through their AI adoption journey, from consideration to successful deployment.
• Partner with solutions and research engineering to build and execute complex government customer programs and projects.
• Own and manage a federal consumption revenue target.
• Oversee consumption revenue forecasting and reporting.
• Analyze key federal account metrics and provide insights to internal and external stakeholders.
• Closely monitor the federal landscape (agencies, policies, competitors, partners, etc.) to inform product roadmaps and corporate strategies.
• Collaborate cross-functionally with solutions, marketing, communications, business operations, people operations, finance, product management, and engineering.
• Support the recruitment and onboarding of federal-focused team members.
• Foster the development of our company culture within the federal practice.

We're seeking someone with experience including :

$2M per year consistently over multiple years.

You might thrive in this role if you :

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 do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, veteran status, disability or any other legally protected status.

For US Based Candidates : Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.

We are committed to providing reasonable accommodations to applicants with disabilities, and requests can be made via this link.

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.