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Federal Account Director, National Security

OpenAI · Washington, DC

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Frontier labremotedirector$261k–$335k
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At a glance

Highlights

  • Guide Defense and Intelligence customers through AI adoption to deployment.
  • Drive strategic opportunities across the full defense sales cycle to closure.
  • Shape product roadmaps using national security landscape insights.

What they offer

  • Relocation assistance
  • Equity

Ideal candidate

Customer-centric builder with deep familiarity in Defense and Intelligence missions, passionate about AI's transformative impact and motivated by solving complex, mission-critical challenges with senior executives.

Requirements

  • 10+ years selling commercial technology to the National Security Community
  • Top Secret clearance
  • Experience designing and executing complex deal strategies in Defense or National Security contexts
  • Familiarity with government contracting, security clearances and procurement processes
  • Experience working directly with senior National Security executives and decision-makers
  • Ability to communicate technical and strategic concepts to National Security customers
remote policy
Hybrid work model of 3 days in the office per week

Lab profile

About OpenAI

Builds safe frontier AI models and products like ChatGPT for broad benefit.

What they build

  • ChatGPT
  • OpenAI API
  • Frontier AI models

Known for

  • Frontier-scale distributed ML training
  • Massive GPU fleet and data center operations
  • Exabyte-scale data lakes and streaming
  • AI alignment and safety research

Key facts

  • Operates one of the world's largest GPU fleets
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