Account Director, Large Enterprise
OpenAI · New York, NY · 1 mo ago
HybridSales$189k–$240k/yrFull-time
We need to output HTML fragment with sections: About the team, About the role, Responsibilities (the "In This Role, You’ll" bullet list), Requirements (the "We’re Seeking Someone With Experience Including ..." bullet list), maybe Skills (the "You Might Thrive In This Role If You Have ..." bullet list), Benefits? There's mention of hybrid work model, relocation assistance, offices, remote within US. That's benefits/schedule. Also Compensation Range: $189K - $240K. So we need Pay section. Also maybe Schedule: hybrid work model 3 days in office per week. Also mention relocation assistance. So we can include Benefits and Schedule sections.
We must not repeat job title as heading. No Job ID. Remove boilerplate: EEO, equal opportunity, background checks, scam warning, accommodations, privacy policy, etc. Also remove duplicated lines.
We need to preserve all substantive information. So we need to include About The Team paragraph, About The Role paragraph, then responsibilities list, requirements list, "You Might Thrive..." list (skills), compensation, hybrid work model, relocation assistance, office locations.
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We must only include sections when posting has real specific content. So we will have sections: About the team, About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Skills (or You Might Thrive...), Pay, Benefits, Schedule maybe. But we need to avoid thin sections. Could combine Benefits and Schedule into one? But guidelines: prefer a few substantive sections over many thin ones. However we have distinct info: Pay, hybrid work (schedule), relocation assistance (benefit), office locations (maybe location). Could combine Benefits and Schedule into a "Benefits and Work Arrangements" section. But they said use headings like Benefits, Pay, Schedule. If we combine, we might not follow exact heading names but it's okay as long as we only emit sections when we have content. The instruction: "Use
for section headings (e.g. About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule)." It suggests those are examples, not mandatory. We can use those headings if we have content. We have content for Pay, Benefits (relocation assistance), Schedule (hybrid model). Also maybe Location (offices). Could put location under Benefits or Schedule? Might be better to have a "Location" section but not in list. Could incorporate location into About the role paragraph (they already mention offices). So we may not need separate location.
Thus sections: About the team, About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Skills, Pay, Benefits, Schedule.
Check each for substantive content:
- About the team: paragraph about mission, GTM team composition. Yes.
- About the role: paragraph describing role, location options, hybrid model, relocation assistance. Actually hybrid and relocation are benefits/schedule; but we can keep them in About the role paragraph? Might be better to move them to Benefits/Schedule sections. But we need to preserve all info; we can keep them in About the role paragraph and also list them in Benefits/Schedule? That would duplicate. Better to extract them to appropriate sections and keep About the role paragraph focusing on role description without those details. However we must not invent or summarize away detail; we can rephrase but must keep all info. So we can move hybrid work model, relocation assistance, office locations to Benefits and Schedule sections, and keep About the role paragraph focusing on role responsibilities etc. That's fine.
Thus About the role paragraph: "Our Sales team helps customers understand how highly capable AI can transform their businesses. As an Account Director, Large Enterprise, you’ll work with some of our largest accounts across a variety of industries, winning new business and expanding adoption within existing customers. This role combines technical understanding, executive engagement, and ownership of complex enterprise sales. You’ll create demand, develop opportunities, and lead deals from initial engagement through negotiation, deployment, and expansion. You’ll help executives move from curiosity about AI to a clear understanding of how it can change the way their businesses operate—and build a practical path to realizing that value. We’re looking for someone with a hunter mentality who takes initiative and creates momentum. You’re comfortable opening doors, building relationships across business units, and bringing commercial and technical stakeholders together around an enterprise transformation strategy. Success means both winning business and helping customers turn their commitments into sustained adoption and consumption."
That covers role description.
Now Responsibilities: the bullet list starting with "In This Role, You’ll". We'll extract each line as
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Requirements: bullet list starting with "We’re Seeking Someone With Experience Including". We'll extract each line as
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Skills: bullet list starting with "You Might Thrive In This Role If You Have". We'll extract each line as
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Pay: Compensation Range: $189K - $240K. We'll put in
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Benefits: relocation assistance to new employees. Also maybe mention "We are also considering applications to work remotely from within the U.S." That's more about location/remote eligibility, could be benefit. We'll include remote eligibility as benefit. Also maybe mention offices locations? Could be location not benefit. But we can include remote eligibility as benefit.
Schedule: hybrid work model of 3 days in the office per week.
We'll also mention office locations (San Francisco, New York City, Seattle) maybe under Benefits or Schedule? Could be under "Location" but not required. Could add to Benefits as "Based in San Francisco, New York City, or Seattle offices". But that's location not benefit. Might be okay to include in Benefits section.
Better to have a separate "Location" section? Not in list but we can still use
for Location. The instruction says use those examples but not limited. It's okay to add Location heading if we have content. However they said "Use for section headings (e.g. About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule)." The e.g. suggests those are examples; we can use others if needed. But to be safe, we can incorporate location into Benefits or Schedule. I'd put location into Benefits as "Based in our San Francisco, New York City, or Seattle offices (with remote eligibility within the U.S.)". That covers location and remote.
Thus Benefits section: relocation assistance, remote eligibility within US, office locations.
Schedule section: hybrid work model of 3 days in the office per week.
Now we need to output only HTML fragment, no /, no markdown fences.
Let's craft.
Structure:
About the team
...
About the role
...
Responsibilities
- Own a portfolio of large enterprise accounts across industries, developing account strategies that drive new business, enterprise adoption, and expansion.
- Create demand through proactive prospecting, executive outreach, and a deep understanding of each customer’s business priorities.
- Own complex deals end to end, including opportunity development, qualification, business case creation, technical evaluation, negotiation, and close.
- Help senior executives understand AI’s potential to transform their business, identify priorities, and build alignment around a roadmap for investment and deployment.
- Build relationships across business units and functions, connecting executive sponsors, business leaders, technical teams, and procurement to advance shared goals.
- Partner with solutions engineering to translate complex technical capabilities into customer programs with measurable business outcomes.
- Win initial deployments and expand successful use cases across teams, business units, and geographies.
- Own a consumption revenue target, partnering across the customer lifecycle to turn signed agreements into production usage and sustained growth.
- Maintain rigorous account plans, opportunity management, and revenue forecasts, taking responsibility for moving opportunities forward and resolving obstacles.
- Bring customer and market insights to product, engineering, and GTM teams to inform our roadmap and approach to enterprise customers.
- Help build the processes, practices, and culture of a growing, high-ownership sales organization.
Requirements
- 14+ years selling complex platform-as-a-service and/or software-as-a-service products to large enterprise customers.
- Demonstrated success winning new customers and expanding existing accounts.
- Generating pipeline and creating demand through proactive account development, including opportunities where the customer has not yet defined a project or allocated budget.
- Designing and executing complex deal strategies with multiple decision-makers, technical requirements, and procurement processes.
- Selling across business units and functions, building support beyond a single buyer, team, or use case.
- Working directly with C-level executives to connect technology investments to business strategy, operational change, and measurable value.
- Selling technically complex products in close partnership with engineering and solutions teams.
- Leading enterprise transformation opportunities from early discovery through deployment, adoption, and expansion.
- Managing consumption-based revenue models, including forecasting usage, driving adoption, and identifying opportunities for growth.
- Succeeding in fast-growing environments that require independent judgment, initiative, and accountability.
Skills
- Hunter mentality: seeks out opportunities, opens doors, and builds demand; motivated by winning new customers and uncovering new opportunities within established accounts.
- Take ownership: drives progress at every stage of a deal, sets clear next steps, brings the right people together, stays accountable when decisions are difficult or the path forward is unclear.
- Can guide an executive journey: meets leaders where they are, challenges their thinking thoughtfully, and helps them develop a concrete vision for how AI can transform their business.
- Customer‑centric and commercially driven: connects customer outcomes to durable growth, pursues opportunities where technology can deliver meaningful value, stays engaged as customers move from purchase to adoption.
- Technically curious: enjoys understanding complex products and can explain their capabilities, limitations, and business implications to both technical and non‑technical audiences.
- Thinks across the enterprise: sees connections between business units, builds relationships across functions, and turns an initial use case into a broader strategy for adoption.
- Builder: thrives in a high‑ownership environment, makes sound decisions with incomplete information, and helps establish the practices that allow a growing team to succeed.
- Passion or deep curiosity for artificial intelligence: excited to help customers deploy AI thoughtfully and realize its potential to benefit their businesses and users.
Pay
Compensation range: $189K – $240K.
Benefits
- Relocation assistance for new employees.
- Eligibility to work remotely from within the U.S.
- Based in our San Francisco, New York City, or Seattle offices.
Schedule
Hybrid work model: 3 days in the office per week.
Check that we didn't repeat any boilerplate. We removed EEO, background checks, etc. Good.
Now ensure we didn't miss any substantive info: The About The Team paragraph we need to capture. Let's write it.
About The Team paragraph: "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 up of Sales, Solutions, Support, Marketing, and Partnership professionals who work together to bring AI to as many users as possible."
We'll put that in .
About the role paragraph we wrote earlier. Ensure we
for prose. We must only include sections when posting has real specific content. So we will have sections: About the team, About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Skills (or You Might Thrive...), Pay, Benefits, Schedule maybe. But we need to avoid thin sections. Could combine Benefits and Schedule into one? But guidelines: prefer a few substantive sections over many thin ones. However we have distinct info: Pay, hybrid work (schedule), relocation assistance (benefit), office locations (maybe location). Could combine Benefits and Schedule into a "Benefits and Work Arrangements" section. But they said use headings like Benefits, Pay, Schedule. If we combine, we might not follow exact heading names but it's okay as long as we only emit sections when we have content. The instruction: "Use
for section headings (e.g. About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule)." It suggests those are examples, not mandatory. We can use those headings if we have content. We have content for Pay, Benefits (relocation assistance), Schedule (hybrid model). Also maybe Location (offices). Could put location under Benefits or Schedule? Might be better to have a "Location" section but not in list. Could incorporate location into About the role paragraph (they already mention offices). So we may not need separate location. Thus sections: About the team, About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Skills, Pay, Benefits, Schedule. Check each for substantive content: - About the team: paragraph about mission, GTM team composition. Yes. - About the role: paragraph describing role, location options, hybrid model, relocation assistance. Actually hybrid and relocation are benefits/schedule; but we can keep them in About the role paragraph? Might be better to move them to Benefits/Schedule sections. But we need to preserve all info; we can keep them in About the role paragraph and also list them in Benefits/Schedule? That would duplicate. Better to extract them to appropriate sections and keep About the role paragraph focusing on role description without those details. However we must not invent or summarize away detail; we can rephrase but must keep all info. So we can move hybrid work model, relocation assistance, office locations to Benefits and Schedule sections, and keep About the role paragraph focusing on role responsibilities etc. That's fine. Thus About the role paragraph: "Our Sales team helps customers understand how highly capable AI can transform their businesses. As an Account Director, Large Enterprise, you’ll work with some of our largest accounts across a variety of industries, winning new business and expanding adoption within existing customers. This role combines technical understanding, executive engagement, and ownership of complex enterprise sales. You’ll create demand, develop opportunities, and lead deals from initial engagement through negotiation, deployment, and expansion. You’ll help executives move from curiosity about AI to a clear understanding of how it can change the way their businesses operate—and build a practical path to realizing that value. We’re looking for someone with a hunter mentality who takes initiative and creates momentum. You’re comfortable opening doors, building relationships across business units, and bringing commercial and technical stakeholders together around an enterprise transformation strategy. Success means both winning business and helping customers turn their commitments into sustained adoption and consumption." That covers role description. Now Responsibilities: the bullet list starting with "In This Role, You’ll". We'll extract each line as
. Benefits: relocation assistance to new employees. Also maybe mention "We are also considering applications to work remotely from within the U.S." That's more about location/remote eligibility, could be benefit. We'll include remote eligibility as benefit. Also maybe mention offices locations? Could be location not benefit. But we can include remote eligibility as benefit. Schedule: hybrid work model of 3 days in the office per week. We'll also mention office locations (San Francisco, New York City, Seattle) maybe under Benefits or Schedule? Could be under "Location" but not required. Could add to Benefits as "Based in San Francisco, New York City, or Seattle offices". But that's location not benefit. Might be okay to include in Benefits section. Better to have a separate "Location" section? Not in list but we can still use
for Location. The instruction says use those examples but not limited. It's okay to add Location heading if we have content. However they said "Use for section headings (e.g. About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule)." The e.g. suggests those are examples; we can use others if needed. But to be safe, we can incorporate location into Benefits or Schedule. I'd put location into Benefits as "Based in our San Francisco, New York City, or Seattle offices (with remote eligibility within the U.S.)". That covers location and remote.
Thus Benefits section: relocation assistance, remote eligibility within US, office locations.
Schedule section: hybrid work model of 3 days in the office per week.
Now we need to output only HTML fragment, no /, no markdown fences.
Let's craft.
Structure:
About the team
About the team
...
About the role
...
Responsibilities
- Own a portfolio of large enterprise accounts across industries, developing account strategies that drive new business, enterprise adoption, and expansion.
- Create demand through proactive prospecting, executive outreach, and a deep understanding of each customer’s business priorities.
- Own complex deals end to end, including opportunity development, qualification, business case creation, technical evaluation, negotiation, and close.
- Help senior executives understand AI’s potential to transform their business, identify priorities, and build alignment around a roadmap for investment and deployment.
- Build relationships across business units and functions, connecting executive sponsors, business leaders, technical teams, and procurement to advance shared goals.
- Partner with solutions engineering to translate complex technical capabilities into customer programs with measurable business outcomes.
- Win initial deployments and expand successful use cases across teams, business units, and geographies.
- Own a consumption revenue target, partnering across the customer lifecycle to turn signed agreements into production usage and sustained growth.
- Maintain rigorous account plans, opportunity management, and revenue forecasts, taking responsibility for moving opportunities forward and resolving obstacles.
- Bring customer and market insights to product, engineering, and GTM teams to inform our roadmap and approach to enterprise customers.
- Help build the processes, practices, and culture of a growing, high-ownership sales organization.
Requirements
- 14+ years selling complex platform-as-a-service and/or software-as-a-service products to large enterprise customers.
- Demonstrated success winning new customers and expanding existing accounts.
- Generating pipeline and creating demand through proactive account development, including opportunities where the customer has not yet defined a project or allocated budget.
- Designing and executing complex deal strategies with multiple decision-makers, technical requirements, and procurement processes.
- Selling across business units and functions, building support beyond a single buyer, team, or use case.
- Working directly with C-level executives to connect technology investments to business strategy, operational change, and measurable value.
- Selling technically complex products in close partnership with engineering and solutions teams.
- Leading enterprise transformation opportunities from early discovery through deployment, adoption, and expansion.
- Managing consumption-based revenue models, including forecasting usage, driving adoption, and identifying opportunities for growth.
- Succeeding in fast-growing environments that require independent judgment, initiative, and accountability.
Skills
- Hunter mentality: seeks out opportunities, opens doors, and builds demand; motivated by winning new customers and uncovering new opportunities within established accounts.
- Take ownership: drives progress at every stage of a deal, sets clear next steps, brings the right people together, stays accountable when decisions are difficult or the path forward is unclear.
- Can guide an executive journey: meets leaders where they are, challenges their thinking thoughtfully, and helps them develop a concrete vision for how AI can transform their business.
- Customer‑centric and commercially driven: connects customer outcomes to durable growth, pursues opportunities where technology can deliver meaningful value, stays engaged as customers move from purchase to adoption.
- Technically curious: enjoys understanding complex products and can explain their capabilities, limitations, and business implications to both technical and non‑technical audiences.
- Thinks across the enterprise: sees connections between business units, builds relationships across functions, and turns an initial use case into a broader strategy for adoption.
- Builder: thrives in a high‑ownership environment, makes sound decisions with incomplete information, and helps establish the practices that allow a growing team to succeed.
- Passion or deep curiosity for artificial intelligence: excited to help customers deploy AI thoughtfully and realize its potential to benefit their businesses and users.
Pay
Compensation range: $189K – $240K.
Benefits
- Relocation assistance for new employees.
- Eligibility to work remotely from within the U.S.
- Based in our San Francisco, New York City, or Seattle offices.
Schedule
Hybrid work model: 3 days in the office per week.
Check that we didn't repeat any boilerplate. We removed EEO, background checks, etc. Good. Now ensure we didn't miss any substantive info: The About The Team paragraph we need to capture. Let's write it. About The Team paragraph: "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 up of Sales, Solutions, Support, Marketing, and Partnership professionals who work together to bring AI to as many users as possible." We'll put that in. About the role paragraph we wrote earlier. Ensure we