Account Director, Startups (Mandarin-Speaking)

OpenAI is seeking a highly motivated and experienced Account Director to join our Startup Go-To-Market team. You will play a critical role in owning relationships with top startup customers and supporting them in successfully building on the OpenAI platform. Many of the most disruptive and category-defining AI applications are being created by startups. The Startup Go-To-Market team's mission is to help startups harness the power of OpenAI’s technology to drive these advances. You will support startups in building effectively with OpenAI’s APIs, SDKs, and applications while providing access to OpenAI’s technical expertise and networks to help accelerate their progress. 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 range of strategically important startup customers. You’ll also work cross-functionally with product, research, engineering, support, and technical solutions teams to help customers get the most out of our models. This role will be based in Singapore. We use a hybrid work model of 3 days in the office per week.

Responsibilities

Manage a portfolio of startup accounts, developing and executing strategies for comprehensive account management; Partner with AI Deployment Engineers to drive successful technical engagements with startups; Own consumption and contracted revenue targets while managing revenue forecasts; Analyze key account metrics to create reports and provide insights to internal and external stakeholders; Collaborate with solutions, marketing, communications, business operations, people operations, finance, product management, and engineering teams; Serve as an advocate for improving the startup experience of building with OpenAI, synthesizing product feedback from insights gathered through our work with startups; Closely monitor the industry and startup landscapes and contribute to corporate strategy; Support the recruitment and onboarding of teammates; Support the development of company culture

Requirements

7–12 years of experience selling platform-as-a-service (PaaS), cloud, or other API products; Experience working in or around the startup ecosystem, preferably as a startup founder, startup employee, or someone who has worked closely with startup customers; Supporting the growth and product development of fast-growing, high-performing companies; Working directly with C-level executives and startup founders; Communicating technical concepts to customers and internal stakeholders; Gathering, distilling, and processing complex market intelligence across industries, competitors, customers, and prospects; Mandarin-speaking skill is a must you will be working with mandarin speaking customer

Nice to have

Customer-centric; Passion for or deep curiosity about artificial intelligence; Builder; Excited by new challenges; Strategist