Account Director, Healthcare & Life Sciences

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 Healthcare & Life Sciences, you will own executive-level relationships with leading healthcare and life sciences organizations, including global pharmaceutical manufacturers, medical device companies, and contract research organizations. You’ll help these companies safely and effectively deploy OpenAI’s technology to transform R&D productivity, automate documentation, enhance regulatory workflows, and personalize patient and provider engagement. This role blends scientific literacy, technical depth, business acumen, and relationship-driven enterprise sales. You will collaborate closely with researchers, engineers, and healthcare-focused solution strategists to design secure, compliant, and high-impact AI deployments. This role is based in San Francisco. 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’ll: - Manage a focused portfolio of healthcare, large pharmaceutical and life sciences accounts, developing long-term strategic account plans - Lead complex, multi-stakeholder sales cycles spanning R&D, medical, regulatory, and commercial functions - Partner with solutions and research engineering to design pilots that demonstrate measurable business and scientific impact - Collaborate with compliance, privacy, and security teams to ensure responsible deployment of AI in regulated environments - Own a revenue and consumption target; manage forecasts and pipeline reporting - Monitor industry and regulatory trends (FDA, EMA, etc.) to guide customer and product strategy - Represent OpenAI at industry conferences and thought-leadership events (e.g., HLTH, JPM) - Partner cross-functionally with marketing, partnerships, and communications to build the HLS go-to-market motion We’re seeking someone with experience including: - 14+ years selling complex enterprise software or platform-as-a-service solutions to healthcare or life sciences customers - Proven success achieving annual revenue targets >$2M+ in regulated industries - Experience managing C-suite relationships across R&D, IT, medical, and commercial teams - Strong understanding of healthcare and life sciences workflows (e.g., drug discovery, clinical trials, regulatory submissions, market access) - Familiarity with data privacy, compliance (HIPAA, GxP), and security considerations in healthcare - Demonstrated ability to design and execute complex deal and partnership strategies You might thrive in this role if you: - Are customer-centric and can translate complex scientific and business needs into transformative AI solutions - Are passionate about advancing human health through the safe and ethical use of AI - Are a builder who enjoys designing scalable systems and repeatable sales motions from the ground up - Are a strategist who anticipates industry shifts and guides enterprise customers through them - Are energized by ambiguity and motivated to create structure and clarity across complex, cross-functional engagements About OpenAI OpenAI is an AI research and deployment company dedicated to ensuring that general-purpose artificial intelligence benefits all of humanity. We push the boundaries of the capabilities of AI systems and seek to safely deploy them to the world through our products. AI is an extremely powerful tool that m