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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
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