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Account Director, Life Sciences
OpenAI UK Ltd · 🇺🇸 San Francisco; New York City
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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