director sales Account Executive ic · Posted May 7, 2026
$232,000 – $350,000
USD per year

About this role

OpenAI is hiring a director-level Account Executive in the sales function based in New York City, NY. The posting calls out experience with OpenAI, Backend Development, Data Analytics. Compensation is listed at $232,000–$350,000 per year.

Role
Account Executive
Function
sales
Level
director
Track
Individual contributor
Employment
Full-time
Location
New York City, NY
Department
Go To Market
Posted
May 7, 2026

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Job description

from OpenAI careers

About 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

As an Account Director focused on Insurance you will own executive-level relationships with leading Insurance organizations. You’ll help these companies safely and effectively deploy OpenAI’s technology to accelerate financial data analysis, automate backend operations, drive AI-powered research, and personalize customer engagement.

This role blends literacy, technical depth, business acumen, and relationship-driven enterprise sales. You will collaborate closely with researchers, engineers, and financial services solution strategists to design secure, compliant, and high-impact AI deployments.

This role is based in New York City or San Francisco. We use a hybrid work model of three days in the office per week and offer relocation assistance to new employees.

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