Federal Account Director
Cognition · Washington DC
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At a glance
Highlights
- Own Devin adoption across mission-critical federal and national security environments
- Drive Devin use cases across software engineering, data, AI, and platform teams.
- Shape Devin for federal missions with direct feedback to product and engineering.
Ideal candidate
A technically fluent seller with federal market experience who thrives owning accounts end-to-end. You bias to execution, navigate complex stakeholders, and care about delivering mission impact in fast-moving startup environments.
Requirements
- Proven success selling technical software into U.S. federal customers and/or major system integrators/defense prime OEMs, with wins via primes or direct vehicles such as OTAs, CSOs, pilots, or programs of record
- Experience owning customer relationships beyond the initial sale, including deployment, adoption, renewal, expansion, or consumption growth
- Experience engaging DoW, IC, and/or federal civilian agencies in classified or regulated environments
- Strong technical background as a software engineer, sales engineer, forward deployed engineer, or equivalent technical fluency
- Ability to quickly learn complex technical systems, mission constraints, and acquisition processes
- Ability to move fluidly between selling, account strategy, technical problem solving, and customer success depending on what an account requires
- Comfortable operating in ambiguous, fast changing startup environments with minimal structure
- Strong ownership mindset with bias toward execution and results
Lab profile
About Cognition
Applied AI lab building end-to-end software agents, makers of Devin.
What they build
- Devin
Known for
- End-to-end software agents
- Talent-dense team