Public Sector Account Director

About Handshake

Handshake was founded on a simple belief that everyone deserves a path to a great career, regardless of where they went to school or who they know. Today, we power 25 million job seekers, 1 million+ employers, and 1,600 educational institutions.

In 2025, we started Handshake AI and built the fastest-growing AI data business in history. We work directly with frontier AI lab researchers to create evaluations, publish benchmarks, and push the boundary of data. We’ve grown from $0 to ~$1B run rate and pay ~$60M to over 30K individuals every month.

Why join Handshake now:

• Shape how every career evolves in the AI economy, at global scale, with impact your friends, family and peers can see and feel

• Partner hand-in-hand with world-class AI labs, Fortune 500 partners and the world’s top educational institutions

• Work together with engineers, scientists, operators, and more from Palantir, Meta, Scale AI, and former YC founders

• Build a massive, fast-growing business with billions in revenue

About The Role

As an Public Sector Account Director, you will be crucial in building and closing deals within the SLG sector. You will develop and nurture relationships with key stakeholders, identify opportunities, and drive the sales process from lead generation to deal closure across your accounts. This role requires in-depth knowledge of the hiring needs and challenges of large and small SLG agencies and an acute understanding of how they function. It will also require strategic thinking, relationship building, and a strong focus on achieving revenue targets. You will:

• Develop and cultivate deep relationships with senior executives at executive levels

• Meet or exceed annual quota by generating high volume of meetings with SLG and its large departments and agencies

• Understand a department or agencies’ business drivers, challenges and pain points

• Navigate SLG acquisition processes and contracting

• Schedule, manage and run large department meetings with senior economic buyers within large SLG Departments

• Create proposals, executive briefings, and conduct executive roundtables for HR and business leaders at SLG agencies

• Generate scalable pipeline and revenue to achieve 100% of annual quota attainment

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