Account Director - Tokyo
OpenAI · Tokyo, Japan · Go To Market
About this role
OpenAI is hiring a director-level Account Executive in the sales function based in Tokyo, Japan (hybrid). The posting calls out experience with OpenAI and roughly 7+ years of relevant work.
- Role
- Account Executive
- Function
- sales
- Level
- director
- Track
- Individual contributor
- Employment
- Full-time
- Location
- Tokyo, Japan
- Work mode
- Hybrid
- Experience
- 7+ years
- Department
- Go To Market
- Posted
- Jan 23, 2026
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Job description
from OpenAI careersAbout 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
Our Sales team has a unique mission to help customers understand the deep impact that highly capable AI models can bring to their business and users. This role is a mixture of technical understanding, vision, partnership, and value-driven strategy.
You’ll be a key driver of opportunities through the entire sales cycle, from pipeline generation to closure. You’ll work with researchers, engineers, and solution strategists to help customers evolve their industry with AI.
This role is based in Tokyo, Japan. We use a hybrid work model of 3 days in the office per week and offer relocation assistance to new employees.