Account Executive, Federal (Intelligence Community)

We are a global team of innovators and pioneers dedicated to shaping the future of observability. At New Relic, we build an intelligent platform that empowers companies to thrive in an AI-first world by giving them unparalleled insight into their complex systems. As we continue to expand our global footprint, we're looking for passionate people to join our mission. If you're ready to help the world's best companies optimize their digital applications, we invite you to explore a career with us! Your opportunity If you seek to bring new, disruptive ideas to the enterprise software market, it’s now time for your next big challenge! We are looking for a Public Sector Account Executive to join our extraordinary Sales team and help us expand across the Federal market. Right now, Public Sector organizations across every size and vertical are focused on improving uptime & performance to ensure high mission success, gaining greater scale & efficiency through projects like cloud adoption/migration, and accelerating time to market through speed and agility by embracing DevOps practices. With the massive market opportunity in front of us, there is not a more exciting time to join our team. What you’ll do You will have a track record of successfully managing and retaining existing Federal accounts through consultative engagements with your solutions team as well as expanding consumption of SaaS and developing a high quality pipeline of business to establish new logo acquisitions. You will navigate complex U.S. Federal organizations and sell to multiple decision-makers. Develop and manage Territory and Account Plans to expand existing accounts and win new logos to meet sales targets. Provide accurate forecasts in Salesforce and during sales meetings utilizing the MEDDPIC framework. Work with your New Relic sales team to identify sales plays, deliver product demonstrations, and participate in industry events to drive pipeline growth Engage senior government exe

Account Manager - SLED Description - This Account Manager role is responsible for building professional relationships with State, Local and Education client executives and identifying account's unique business needs and delivering solutions to drive value to the client and the organization. The role coordinates with pre-sales and inside sales for deal pursuit and works with internal teams to deliver on the clients’ expectations. Open to applicants local to Washington D.C. area. Responsibilities • Coordinates account plans on commercial account(s) and focuses on value and/or volume portfolio management and selling range of the organization’s products and services. • Works with pre-sales and inside sales to participate in deal pursuit and with internal teams such as marketing, product development, and customer service to deliver comprehensive solutions and address customer needs effectively. • Builds and maintains strong relationships with commercial clients, focusing mainly on specialty buyers, understands their needs and challenges, and ensures client satisfaction. • Implements margin recovery activities and strategies in full/partial ownership depending on account coverage. • Analyzes account win/loss rates and makes recommendations to improve ratios. • Designs and contributes to sales policies and strategies to achieve sales targets and objectives for the assigned business segment, identifying growth opportunities, upselling, and cross-selling to existing clients. • Enters and manages all opportunities in pipeline tools and processes, recommends, and implements pipeline management practices. • Provides support to clients and address any concerns or issues they may have in a timely and effective manner. Acts as the main point of contact for clients, ensuring a smooth and positive customer experience. • Stays updat

Who are we? Cohere is the leading security-first enterprise AI company. We build cutting-edge foundation AI models and end-to-end products that are designed to solve real-world business problems. We’re training and deploying frontier models for enterprises who are building AI systems. We believe that our work is instrumental to the widespread adoption of AI and we are looking for folks that want to be part of that. We obsess over what we build. Each one of us is responsible for contributing to increasing the capabilities of our models and the value they drive for our customers. Cohere is a team of researchers, engineers, designers, and more, who are all passionate about their craft. We are a global technology company headquartered in Toronto with key offices in London, New York City, San Francisco, Montreal, Paris, Berlin and Seoul. Join us! Senior Account Executive, Federal Defense and Intelligence (Washington, DC) Why this role? As a Senior Account Executive at Cohere you will have ownership of the full sales cycle - from identifying leads to closing deals, with Defense and Intelligence customers in the United States. In this role you will be focussed on business development activity within the Department of War, including Combatant Commands and some elements of the broader national security community. We’re looking for an approachable and compelling communicator who loves working with operators and analysts to uncover their needs and feels comfortable developing tailored value propositions around how Cohere’s platform can help them drive mission outcomes. You’ll lay the foundation for Cohere’s growth by owning your territory and collaborating with teammates across Customer Success, Sales Development, Marketing, and Sales Engineering. You’ll be the voice of the field and help our Product and Engineering teams prioritize the Cohere roadmap with customer-centric care. In this highly self-directed role, you will thrive in a quickly evolving environment. As a Senior A

About the team The OpenAI for Government team is a mission-driven group bringing frontier AI to the U.S. Intelligence Community (IC) and broader national security enterprise. We partner with intelligence professionals to deploy secure, compliant AI capabilities—including ChatGPT Enterprise, ChatGPT Gov, and the OpenAI API—in mission-aligned environments that meet rigorous security, privacy, reliability, and responsible-AI requirements. As part of the OpenAI for Government team, you will work across IC elements and mission partners—including ODNI, CIA, NSA, DIA, NGA, NRO, and other federal intelligence organizations—to help analysts, collectors, operators, and technical teams apply frontier AI to their highest-priority missions. We accelerate adoption through hands-on support, mission-specific workflows, tailored enablement, and measurable operational outcomes while preserving human judgment, analytic integrity, and protection of sensitive information. About the Role The Strategic Delivery Lead (SDL) for the Intelligence Community will identify, shape, and deliver OpenAI’s highest-impact deployments for U.S. intelligence organizations. You will help IC customers translate mission priorities—including all-source analysis, intelligence production, collection management, open-source and geospatial exploitation, cyber threat analysis, knowledge discovery, and analyst productivity—into secure, technically feasible AI deployments built on the OpenAI API and enterprise products. The role is highly cross-functional and customer-facing: you will partner with Research, Engineering, Go-to-Market, Security, Legal, Privacy, and government mission, acquisition, and technical stakeholders to align on scope, remove delivery obstacles, and communicate progress from working teams to agency leadership. You will own end-to-end execution of technical delivery workstreams led by Forward Deployed Engineers, Researchers, Solutions Architects, and Enablement teams. You will establish mission

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 organization. The team comprises Sales, Solutions, Support, Marketing, and Partnership professionals who collaborate to create valuable solutions that will help bring AI to as many users as possible. About the Role Our Government Sales team has a unique mission to help the U.S. Intelligence Community understand the transformative impact that highly capable AI models can bring to its most critical missions. This role combines technical understanding, strategic vision, relationship management, and value-driven sales strategy tailored specifically to Intelligence Community customers. You’ll drive key opportunities throughout the full sales cycle, from pipeline generation through deployment and expansion. You’ll collaborate closely with researchers, engineers, solution strategists, and cross-functional partners to help Intelligence Community customers advance their missions through AI. This role is based in Washington, D.C. We use a hybrid work model of three days in the office per week and offer relocation assistance to new employees. In addition, this role requires frequent on-site engagement at customer and partner facilities across the Washington, D.C./Northern Virginia corridor, including classified environments. In this role, you will: Manage a focused set of key U.S. Intelligence Community accounts, developing and executing comprehensive account strategies. Lead Intelligence Community customers through their AI adoption journey, from initial consideration through successful deployment and expansion. Build trusted relationships with senior

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 organization. The team comprises Sales, Solutions, Support, Marketing, and Partnership professionals who collaborate to create valuable solutions that will help bring AI to as many users as possible. About the role Our Government Sales team has a unique mission to help national security customers understand the transformative impact that highly capable AI models can bring to their critical missions. This role combines technical understanding, strategic vision, partnership management, and value-driven strategy specifically tailored to Defense and Intelligence Community customers. You’ll drive key opportunities through the entire defense sales cycle, from pipeline generation to closure. You’ll collaborate closely with researchers, engineers, and solution strategists to help customers within the Defense and Intelligence Communities advance their national security missions through AI. This role is based in Washington DC. We use a hybrid work model of 3 days in the office per week and offer relocation assistance to new employees. In this role, you'll: Manage a focused set of key U.S. Defense and Intelligence Community accounts, developing and executing comprehensive account plans Lead Defense and Intelligence customers through their AI adoption journey, from consideration to successful deployment Partner with solutions and research engineering to build and execute complex defense customer programs and projects Own and manage a National Security Community consumption revenue target Oversee revenue forecasting and reporting Analyze key Defense and I