Account Director - APAC
At a glance
Leadership Account Management role at Cognition. Tokyo · full-time.
Pay not stated Account Director salary
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What you'll do
- Own enterprise deals from initial prospecting through contract close and customer activation
- Build access across C-suite, technology, AI, procurement, and legal stakeholders
- Create account strategies for product demonstrations and complex opportunity closure
- Match Devin to technical pain points, priority use cases, and deployment teams
- Bring customer discoveries back to product and engineering while generating pipeline and revenue
What you bring
- A record of selling technically complex products to enterprise buyers successfully
- Technical experience from software engineering, sales engineering, or forward-deployed engineering
- Strong learning ability for complex customer problems and requirements
- Comfort moving quickly through ambiguity while taking on broader responsibility
Who this fits
This role suits a technically fluent enterprise seller who can manage complex buying groups and customer activation. You’ll work onsite in Tokyo and collaborate across engineering, product, and go-to-market. The environment is described as fast-paced, high-intensity, and rapidly changing.
From the employer
We are an applied AI lab building end-to-end software agents.
We're the makers of Devin, the first AI software engineer.
Our team is extremely talent-dense. Among our founding team, we have world-class competitive programmers, former founders, and leaders from companies at the cutting edge of AI including Scale AI, Palantir, Cursor, Waymo, Tesla, Lunchclub, Modal, Google DeepMind, and Nuro.
Building Devin is just the first step—our hardest challenges still lie ahead. If you’re excited to solve some of the world’s biggest problems and build AI that can reason on real-world tasks, apply to join us.
About the Role
As an Account Director, you will be responsible for sourcing, closing and activating enterprise customers, while providing critical product feedback to the Cognition team. You will be a crucial contributor to Cognition’s revenue growth and Devin’s development.
You’ll work closely with the whole Cognition team including engineering, product and go-to-market to accelerate the sales cycle and help build one of the fastest-growing AI startups.
Successful candidates will have deep experience selling highly technical solutions to businesses, have experience with software engineering and exhibit the drive and grit required to win consistently in a fast-paced, high-intensity environment.
In this role, you will:
Drive revenue for Cognition, owning the entire sales cycle, from prospecting through close and activation for early stage through enterprise companies
Navigate layered customer organizations including working directly with C-suite executives, Tech and AI leaders, procurement and legal stakeholders
Develop strategies for sourcing, demoing the product, and closing opportunities with layered buying organizations
Deeply understand the customer’s technical pain points and priorities, and qualify the best use cases and teams to deploy Devin to large technology organizations
Discover new use cases in our customers’ Tech organizations and overshare customer feedback with our product and engineering teams
Focus on results - generate pipeline, revenue, and help build the best technical sales organization to bring Devin to market
Requirements for the role:
Demonstrate a track record of success selling deeply technical products to enterprise customers
You have technical experience - either as a software engineer, sales engineer or forward deployed engineer. If not, you have an exceptional ability to learn and understand the complex technical problems and requirements our customers are trying to solve using Devin
Thrive in ambiguous and rapidly changing environments — you’re willing to move fast and quickly grow in scope and responsibility
You have a demonstrated exceptional ability to learn
You might excel if you…
previously founded a startup
successfully sourced and closed large, complex enterprise software deals
were a software engineer or sales engineer, or studied computer science, but moved into go-to market roles to be closer to the customer
are a competitive, highly ambitious person who loves working in high-intensity environments
Equal Opportunity
Cognition is an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, or any other protected characteristic under applicable law. We are committed to providing reasonable accommodations for candidates with disabilities throughout the hiring process - please let us know if you need any.
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