OpenAI
Account Director, Life Sciences
Part remote, part office, you need to live within commuting distance of a named location.
Hybrid · San Francisco
Employer listed it 3 months ago · Added 4 days ago
Been open since 3 months ago. Long-running listings are sometimes left up after the role is filled.
Salary
$189,000–$240,000
Location
Hybrid · San Francisco
Timezone
Not stated
Contract
Full-time
Experience
Lead
Category
Sales
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Remote flexibility
Hybrid
This role is only partly remote, the employer expects time in the office around San Francisco, New York City, Hybrid, so you need to live within commuting distance.
What the employer says
- Source listing states candidate location: "San Francisco, New York City, Hybrid"
- Listing mentions "Hybrid"
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About the role
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 helps customers understand, adopt, and deploy OpenAI's technology across their most important workflows. The team is made up of Sales, Solutions, Support, Marketing, and Partnerships professionals who work together to bring AI to as many people and organizations as possible.
About the role
As an Account Director focused on Life Sciences, you will own executive-level relationships with organizations across biopharma, medical technology, and life science services. This includes pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies, medical device and diagnostics companies, contract research organizations, contract development and manufacturing organizations, research tools companies, and laboratory or scientific services providers.
This is a role for someone who understands how life sciences companies create, validate, manufacture, commercialize, and support scientific and medical products. You will help these customers evaluate and deploy OpenAI's technology to accelerate R&D, improve clinical and regulatory workflows, scale scientific and medical content operations, modernize commercial and field teams, and improve knowledge work across highly regulated environments.
The role blends scientific literacy, enterprise sales discipline, technical curiosity, and relationship-driven account leadership. You will partner closely with solutions, research, product, legal, security, and compliance teams to design secure, responsible, and high-impact AI deployments for life sciences customers.
This role can be remote but New York or San Francisco office locations are preferred. We use a hybrid work model of three days in the office per week and offer relocation assistance to new employees.
In this role, you will:
Manage a focused portfolio of strategic life sciences accounts across biopharma, medtech, diagnostics, CROs, CDMOs, and life science services
Develop long-term account plans that map OpenAI capabilities to customer priorities across R&D, clinical development, regulatory, manufacturing, medical affairs, commercial, and enterprise IT
Lead complex, multi-stakeholder sales cycles with executives, technical leaders, scientific stakeholders, procurement, legal, privacy, security, and compliance teams
Identify and shape high-value AI use cases such as drug discovery support, clinical trial operations, regulatory submissions, medical writing, pharmacovigilance, field enablement, customer operations, and enterprise knowledge workflows
Partner with solutions and research engineering to design pilots and deployments that demonstrate measurable business, scientific, and operational impact
Collaborate with privacy, security, legal, and compliance partners to support responsible AI deployment in regulated life sciences environments, including GxP and global data governance considerations
Own revenue, consumption, pipeline, forecast accuracy, and expansion strategy for your accounts
Monitor life sciences industry trends, regulatory shifts, competitive dynamics, and customer buying patterns to inform account strategy and the broader OpenAI go-to-market motion
Represent OpenAI in life sciences industry forums and customer executive conversations, including settings such as JPM, BIO, HLTH, and targeted biopharma or medtech leadership events
Partner cross-functionally with marketing, partnerships, communications, and product teams to build a repeatable life sciences go-to-market motion
We're seeking someone with experience including:
14+ years selling complex enterprise software, cloud, AI, data, or platform solutions to life sciences customers
A track record of building and growing strategic accounts across biopharma, medtech, diagnostics, CROs, CDMOs, life science services, or adjacent scientific industries
Proven success achieving and exceeding multi-million-dollar annual revenue targets in complex, regulated enterprise environments
Experience managing C-suite and senior stakeholder relationships across R&D, clinical, regulatory, manufacturing, medical affairs, commercial, enterprise IT, security, and data organizations
Requirements
The employer hasn't listed requirements separately, they're described in the role summary above and on the original listing.
Benefits
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How to apply
- 1Check the flexibility label above, hybrid, matches where you plan to live and work.
- 2Tailor your CV to the role at OpenAI, mentioning your remote working experience.
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