Account Director, Education

About the teamOpenAI’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 of Sales, Solutions, Support, Marketing, and Partnership professionals that work together to create valuable solutions that will help bring AI to as many users as possible.About the roleOur ChatGPT Enterprise Sales team has a unique mission to help customers understand the deep impact that highly capable AI models can bring to their business and users. This role is a mixture of technical understanding, vision, partnership, and value-driven strategy.Our EDU Account Director will specialize in working with education institutions and companies as they adopt OpenAI’s products. For example, this individual will focus on helping support universities K-12 institutions as they evaluate and adopt ChatGPT Enterprise for their administrators, faculty and students. You’ll be a key driver of opportunities through the entire sales cycle, from pipeline generation to closure. You’ll represent OpenAI as a thought leader in AI, and partner with researchers, engineers, and solution strategists to help customers evolve their AI journeys. ChatGPT Enterprise (launched Aug’23) is being rapidly adopted by companies around the world, and we’re looking for tenured Account Directors to join our team and continue to bring both new customers onto the product, and expand existing ones. This role is based in Dublin, Ireland. We use a hybrid work model of 3 days in the office per week and offer relocation assistance to new employees.In this role, you'll:Lead our enterprise prospects’ journeys from consideration to purchasePartner with Account Associates, Solutions Engineering and Customer Success to build and execute complex customer evaluations, demos, and pilotsForecast your pipeline and targets on a weekly basisClosely monitor the industry landscape (people, competitors, partners, etc.) to contribute to product roadmap and other corporate strategiesCollaborate with solutions, marketing, communications, business operations, people operations, finance, product management, and engineeringSupport the recruitment and onboarding of other teammatesSupport the development of company cultureWe're seeking someone with experience including:Selling platform-as-a-service and/or software-as-a-service at a product-led growth companyExperience selling into education institutions Achieving revenue targets >$1M per year for more than 6 yearsDesigning and executing complex deal strategiesSupporting the growth of fast-growing, high-performance companiesLeading high-visibility customer events (CAB, conferences, product launches, etc.)Gathering, distilling, and processing complex market (industry, competitor, customer, prospect) intelligenceReporting on customer success activitiesAbout OpenAIOpenAI 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 we do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, age, veteran status, disability, genetic information, or other applicable legally protected characteristic. For additional information, please see OpenAI’s Affirmative Action and Equal Employme ... (truncated, view full listing at source)