Account Director, State and Local Government (West Coast)
OpenAIAbout 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 OpenAI for Government 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.
About the role
Our OpenAI for Government 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 state and local government customers.
This Account Director will own a portfolio of strategic West Coast state and local government accounts, with a primary focus on California and other key public sector customers across the Western United States. The ideal candidate brings deep knowledge of the state and local government landscape, established relationships with government leaders, and a track record of driving technology adoption within complex public sector organizations.
You’ll drive key opportunities through the entire State and Local Government 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 requires regular travel throughout the Western United States to engage customers, partners, and industry stakeholders.
This role is based in Washington DC or San Francisco. 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:
Manage a focused set of key state and local government accounts, developing and executing comprehensive state and local government account plans
Lead state and local government 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
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