Account Director, Startups

Meyandy LLC; München; Hybrid; EUR 120.000 - 190.000; Vollzeit

Benefits dieser Stelle

Hybrid work model

Relocation assistance

Zusammenfassung

OpenAI is seeking a highly motivated Account Director to join the Startups Go To Market team. You will own relationships with top startup customers, supporting them in building on the OpenAI platform.

The role blends technical understanding, strategic partnership, and executive engagement, serving as the primary relationship owner for strategic startups. You will work cross-functionally with product, research, engineering, support, and solutions architecture to help startups accelerate their

Qualifikationen

• 6+ years selling platform-as-a-service and/or software-as-a-service.
• Designing and executing complex deal strategies.
• Experience working in or around the startup ecosystem, preferably as either a founder of a startup, an employee of a startup, or someone who worked with startup customers.
• Supporting the growth of fast-growing, high-performance companies.
• Working directly with C-level executives.
• Communicating technical concepts to customers and internal stakeholders.
• Leading high-visibility customer events (CAB, conferences, product launches, etc.).
• Gathering, distilling, and processing complex market (industry, competitor, customer, prospect) intelligence.

Aufgaben

• Manage a portfolio of startups accounts, developing and executing strategies for a comprehensive account plan.
• Partner with solutions and research engineering to build and execute complex customer programs and projects.
• Own a consumption revenue target.
• Manage consumption revenue forecasts.
• Analyze key account metrics to create reports and provide insights to internal and external stakeholders.
• Closely monitor the industry landscape to contribute to product roadmap and other corporate strategies.
• Collaborate with solutions, marketing, communications, business operations, people operations, finance, product management, and engineering.
• Serve as an advocate for improving the startup experience building with OpenAI, synthesizing product feedback from insights captured from our work with startups.
• Closely monitor the industry landscape and startup landscape to contribute to product roadmap and other corporate strategies.
• Support the recruitment and onboarding of other teammates.
• Support the development of company culture.

Kenntnisse

Enterprise SaaS sales

Deal strategy design

Startup ecosystem experience

Executive relationship management

Technical communication

Event leadership

Market intelligence

Tools

CAB planning

Conferences

Jobbeschreibung

About the Team

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 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 Role

OpenAI is seeking a highly motivated and experienced Account Director to join our Startups Go To Market team. You will play a critical role in owning relationships with top startup customers and supporting them in building successfully on the OpenAI platform. We believe that many of the most disruptive and category-defining AI applications will be created by startups. The Startup Go To Market team’s mission is to help startups harness the power of AI models to drive these advances. You will support startups building effectively with OpenAI’s APIs, and provide access to OpenAI teams and expertise to support their growth. 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 set of strategically important startup customers, as well as working across the OpenAI organization to help these startups accelerate their progress and be successful using our models. You’ll work cross-functionality with product, research, engineering, support, and solutions architecture to help customers get the most out of our models. This role is based in Munich or Berlin.

Responsibilities

In this role, you will:

• Manage a portfolio of startups accounts, developing and executing strategies for a comprehensive account plan.
• Partner with solutions and research engineering to build and execute complex customer programs and projects.
• Own a consumption revenue target.
• Manage consumption revenue forecasts.
• Analyze key account metrics to create reports and provide insights to internal and external stakeholders.
• Closely monitor the industry landscape (people, competitors, partners, etc.) to contribute to product roadmap and other corporate strategies.
• Collaborate with solutions, marketing, communications, business operations, people operations, finance, product management, and engineering.
• Serve as an advocate for improving the startup experience building with OpenAI, synthesizing product feedback from insights captured from our work with startups.
• Closely monitor the industry landscape and startup landscape to contribute to product roadmap and other corporate strategies.
• Support the recruitment and onboarding of other teammates.
• Support the development of company culture.

Required Experience

• 6+ years selling platform-as-a-service and/or software-as-a-service.
• Designing and executing complex deal strategies.
• Experience working in or around the startup ecosystem, preferably as either a founder of a startup, an employee of a startup, or someone who worked with startup customers.
• Supporting the growth of fast-growing, high-performance companies.
• Working directly with C-level executives.
• Communicating technical concepts to customers and internal stakeholders.
• Leading high-visibility customer events (CAB, conferences, product launches, etc.).
• Gathering, distilling, and processing complex market (industry, competitor, customer, prospect) intelligence.

Desired Traits

• Are customer-centric.
• You are motivated to deeply understand your customer’s priorities and help them achieve their vision for using our models to improve their products and services.
• You build strong relationships with executives…

Benefits

• Hybrid work model: 3 days in the office per week.
• Relocation assistance to new employees.

Account Director, Startups — Openai, Munich.