Account Director, Education

In this role, you'll:

• Lead our enterprise prospects’ journeys from consideration to purchase
• Partner with Account Associates, Solutions Engineering and Customer Success to build and execute complex customer evaluations, demos, and pilots
• Forecast your pipeline and targets on a weekly basis
• 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
• Support the recruitment and onboarding of other teammates
• Support the development of company culture

We're seeking someone with experience including:

• Selling platform-as-a-service and/or software-as-a-service at a product-led growth company
• Experience selling into education institutions
• Achieving revenue targets >$1M per year for more than 6 years
• Designing and executing complex deal strategies
• Supporting the growth of fast-growing, high-performance companies
• Leading high-visibility customer events (CAB, conferences, product launches, etc.)
• Gathering, distilling, and processing complex market (industry, competitor, customer, prospect) intelligence
• Reporting on customer success activities

About OpenAI

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. 

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