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Account Director - APAC

Join Cognition as an Account Director to drive revenue and activate enterprise customers for innovative AI solutions.

Location
Tokyo
Compensation
Not disclosed
Level
director
Type
full time

Posted by employer 4 months ago

First seen on Joblaze 4 days ago

Last verified on the company career page 17 hours ago

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Skills & Technologies

What you'll build

  • Drive revenue for Cognition
  • Own the entire sales cycle
  • Navigate customer organizations
  • Develop strategies for sourcing and closing opportunities
  • Understand customer technical pain points

Must have

  • Track record of success selling deeply technical products
  • Technical experience as a software engineer or similar
  • Ability to learn complex technical problems

Nice to have

  • Previously founded a startup
  • Sourced and closed large enterprise software deals
  • Studied computer science

AI in the day-to-day

Building Devin, the first AI software engineer, to solve real-world tasks.

Not disclosed in this posting: compensation, years of experience, work arrangement, visa sponsorship.

Joblaze summary

The Account Director at Cognition is tasked with driving revenue by managing the entire sales cycle for enterprise customers, from prospecting to activation. This role requires a strong technical background, ideally in software engineering or a related field, to effectively address customer pain points and facilitate product feedback. It is suited for individuals with a proven track record in selling complex technical solutions and who thrive in fast-paced, evolving environments. Cognition's team is composed of highly skilled professionals from top AI companies, contributing to a collaborative and innovative atmosphere.

Joblaze insights

  • Listed 4 days ago — first seen on Joblaze September 21, 2026. Last confirmed on Cognition's careers page September 25, 2026.
  • This exact title is also open at 1 other location at Cognition: Singapore.

Quick facts

What's the tech stack?
Joblaze extracted these technologies from the posting: AI/ML.
What seniority level is this role?
Cognition targets director candidates for this position.
Is this full-time or contract?
Full-time for this Account Director - APAC role at Cognition.

From the original posting

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

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