# Federal Account Director at Cognition

- Company: Cognition (cognition.com)
- Location: Washington DC
- Places: Washington DC
- Posted: 2026-01-08
- Apply: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/cognition/b154cc8a-0f04-44b8-88d8-72901fc0582d
- Page: https://ye.saranatour.dev/jobs/federal-account-director-cognition-kn7e47q3ab0ketmw6g10t9acxs8hea0z

## The posting

Federal Account Director
Cognition · Washington DC

## **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 a Federal Account Director, you will own the full commercial relationship and revenue lifecycle across U.S. federal customers and partners, driving adoption and sustained consumption of Devin within mission critical government and national security environments. You will source, close, and operationalize deals, then remain accountable for customer success, adoption, retention, and expansion throughout the life of the account, while feeding direct customer signal back into Cognition’s product and engineering teams.

You will work cross functionally with product, engineering, and leadership to shape Devin for federal use cases, ensure customers realize value from their deployments, and accelerate Cognition’s federal market penetration.

This role requires experience selling highly technical software into complex federal organizations, comfort operating in regulated acquisition environments, and the persistence required to move programs from initial engagement to production deployment and sustained, expanding usage. Account Directors operate as the primary owner of their accounts across both pre sale and post sale engagement.

**In this role, you will:**

- Own the full federal account lifecycle from account targeting and capture strategy through award, onboarding, and expansion, deployment, adoption, consumption, renewal, and expansion
- Own revenue and customer outcomes across your portfolio, including both new customer commitments and growth in consumption within existing accounts
- Drive revenue across the Dept. of War (DoW), intelligence community (IC), federal civilian agencies, and federal contractors, including large primes (OEMs and system integrators)
- Serve as the primary commercial and strategic owner for customers, maintaining executive and operational relationships throughout the life of the account
- Navigate complex stakeholder sets including mission owners, technical leadership, contracting officers, security, legal, and executive sponsors
- Develop capture strategies across primes, subcontracting paths, OTAs, CSOs, pilots, and direct awards
- Translate mission and technical requirements into high-value Devin use cases across software engineering, data, AI, and platform teams
- Deliver technically credible demos and engage deeply with customer engineering teams before and after deployment
- Drive successful onboarding and production adoption, identifying and resolving barriers that limit customer usage or value realization
- Develop account plans that identify opportunities to increase Devin consumption, expand into new teams and use cases, and grow the long term value of each customer relationship
- Identify new federal and contractor use cases and provide structured feedback to product and engineering based on both prospective customer need