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Account Director, Startups

India, Bangalore · Job Posted February 21, 2026
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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. 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.

Job Responsibility

  • Manage a portfolio of startups accounts, developing and executing strategies for a comprehensive account plan
  • Partner with solutions architects to drive successful technical engagements with startups, accelerating their product development process
  • Own a consumption revenue target
  • Manage consumption 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
  • 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 and contribute to corporate strategies
  • Support the recruitment and onboarding of other teammates
  • Support the development of company culture

Requirements

  • 7-12 years selling platform-as-a-service, cloud, or other API products
  • 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 and product development of fast-growing, high-performance companies
  • Working directly with C-level executives and startup founders
  • Communicating technical concepts to customers and internal stakeholders
  • Gathering, distilling, and processing complex market (industry, competitor, customer, prospect) intelligence

Nice to have

  • Customer-centric
  • Passion or deep curiosity in artificial intelligence
  • Builder mentality
  • Excited by new challenges
  • Strategist

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