Account Specialist in Washington

About the Team OpenAI’s AI Success Engineer team partners with the world’s most ambitious government & partner organizations to translate cutting edge AI into real business and mission impact for governments of all levels from Local, State, Federal, and International. We guide customers and users journey from the first time they try ChatGPT Enterprise, automate a workflow, develop and execute a new skill, and create their first agent to scaled enterprise adoption of ChatGPT, Codex, our API and other novel capabilities. Our work spans technical integration and enablement, workflow transformation, inspiring and upskilling AI literacy and confidence across the workforce, sustained program, product and new capability delivery. Most importantly, we help each member of our customer's workforce, their teams, programs and missions meet their total potential. Our government customers have vital missions, and we must meet them with game-changing technology. Every engagement is an opportunity to shape how AI changes work, productivity, and innovation. This role sits at the center of that mission. About the Role Governments work at a scale that is truly exponential on missions that are of critical importance to people, communities and nations. The AI Success Engineer role is the primary post-sales relationship for OpenAI’s most important customers. You are responsible for the end-to-end account management of critical Government and Partner customers. You will be helping Government Leaders/Partners appropriately and effectively use AI for their mission, while simultaneously investing in ensuring their people are AI-enabled and ready to advance positive outcomes that their constituents depend on them for. You will drive: the impact of our tools on their mission, account health and adoption, ensuring technical readiness, creating and executing on the deployment strategy, enabling, educating and training their workforce, identifying new use cases and upsell opportunities, and d

About the team OpenAI’s mission is to ensure that artificial general intelligence benefits all of humanity. OpenAI for Government helps public-sector institutions use advanced AI responsibly to improve services and advance critical missions. The Partnerships team builds the external ecosystem and internal operating mechanisms required to deliver that work at scale. Role Summary We are seeking a Partnerships Operations Lead to build and run the operating foundation for OpenAI for Government’s Partnerships team. This person will serve as the operational connective tissue across the partner team, working closely with Account Directors, Solutions Architects, Revenue Operations, Deal Desk, and other cross-functional stakeholders to move opportunities from initial engagement through agreement and execution. They will help ensure a smooth handoff to Technical Success across accounts by establishing clear readiness criteria, capturing the right commercial and customer context, and aligning teams on partner roles, commitments, dependencies, and success outcomes. The ideal candidate is a true utility player who combines the relationship instincts of a growth oriented builder with the rigor of an exceptional business operator. They thrive in ambiguity, create processes that do not yet exist, and move fluidly between deal execution, workflow design, analysis, and cross-functional coordination. Key Responsibilities Own the end-to-end operating cadence for partner-sourced and partner-influenced opportunities, from intake and qualification through approvals, contracting, launch, and expansion. Build and continuously improve operating processes, standard procedures, stage gates, decision rights, and service expectations that make partner execution faster and more predictable. Operationalize new and existing government partner motions—including cloud providers, resellers, and sell-through models—by translating requirements that differ from standard commercial motions into clear work

Our Enterprise Federal sales team works with a best-of-breed product that solves real problems for our customers. Sellers follow a well-defined methodology that helps them identify the customer’s unique needs and clearly convey the value of the Datadog product. Whether you’re looking to learn from the best or be the best, the Datadog sales team is dedicated to furthering personal development and team success. We are searching for an experienced Federal, Civilian Sales Executive that has a real passion for technology and can deliver on bold revenue targets. As we continue to enter into bigger markets, and formalize our support for the Public Sector enterprise segment, this division within Datadog will blaze the path for organizational growth. This is a lucrative opportunity to break into new Civilian Agencies within a rich territory, as well work with accounts who are in a hybrid state and transitioning to the cloud. At Datadog, we place value in our office culture - the relationships and collaboration it builds and the creativity it brings to the table. We operate as a hybrid workplace to ensure our Datadogs can create a work-life harmony that best fits them. What You’ll Do: Prospect into large Fortune 1000 companies while running an efficient sales process Maintain, build and own specific relationship maps for your territory including existing relationships and aspirational contacts Develop a deep comprehension of customer's business Negotiate favorable pricing and business terms with large commercial enterprises by selling value and ROI Handle existing customer expectations while expanding reach and depth into assigned territory Demonstrate resourcefulness when faced with challenges that defy easy solution Have intuitive sense of necessary steps to close business and gain customer validation Identify robust set of business drivers behind all opportunities Ensure high forecasting accuracy and consistency Who You Are: Someone with 3+ years closing experience (