Full-Time

Account Director

Cognition

Cognition

501-1,000 employees

AI-powered code writing and testing

No salary listed

Sydney NSW, Australia + 1 more

More locations: Remote in Australia

Remote

Category
Sales & Account Management (1)

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Requirements
  • Demonstrate a track record of success selling deeply technical products to enterprise customers.
  • Have technical experience as a software engineer, sales engineer, or forward-deployed engineer; alternatively, demonstrate an exceptional ability to learn and understand complex technical problems and customer requirements.
  • Thrive in ambiguous and rapidly changing environments and be willing to move quickly while growing in scope and responsibility.
  • Demonstrate an exceptional ability to learn.
Responsibilities
  • Drive revenue for Cognition by owning the entire sales cycle, from prospecting through closing and activation, for early-stage through enterprise companies.
  • Navigate layered customer organizations, including direct engagement with C-suite executives, technology and artificial intelligence leaders, procurement, and legal stakeholders.
  • Develop strategies for sourcing, demonstrating the product, and closing opportunities with layered buying organizations.
  • Understand customers’ 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 customers’ technology organizations and share customer feedback with the product and engineering teams.
  • Generate pipeline and revenue and help build the technical sales organization to bring Devin to market.
  • Work closely with engineering, product, and go-to-market teams to accelerate the sales cycle and support Devin’s development.
Desired Qualifications
  • Previously founded a startup.
  • Successfully sourced and closed large, complex enterprise software deals.
  • Previously worked as a software engineer or sales engineer, or studied computer science, before moving into a go-to-market role.
  • Demonstrated competitiveness and ambition, with the ability to perform in high-intensity environments.

Cognition automates software engineering tasks with Devin.ai’s autonomous AI platform that can write, run, and test code. It integrates with Slack, GitHub, and browsers to manage tasks and track progress within existing workflows. The service is subscription-based, enabling engineering teams to scale output without hiring more staff, reducing costs while speeding delivery. Its end-to-end automation includes creating pull requests and code reviews, focusing on workflow optimization within familiar tools.

Company Size

501-1,000

Company Stage

Late Stage VC

Total Funding

$3.7B

Headquarters

New York City, New York

Founded

2023

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Simplify's Take

What believers are saying

  • Cognition raised over $2 billion on September 8, 2026, signaling massive investor conviction.
  • Run-rate revenue nearly doubled from $492 million in May 2026 to almost $900 million.
  • Devin Security Swarm and Auto-Triage expand wallet share into security and incident-response budgets.

What critics are saying

  • OpenAI, Google DeepMind, and Anthropic can commoditize coding agents and crush pricing by 2027.
  • Windsurf integration and 80-hour culture already triggered layoffs and buyouts, risking team attrition.
  • A $48 billion valuation against fast-moving model rivals creates existential downside if enterprise retention slows.

What makes Cognition unique

  • Devin writes, tests, and ships code autonomously, plus Security Swarm fixes vulnerabilities.
  • Cognition now bundles agent, IDE, and production operations through Windsurf and TierZero acquisitions.
  • Enterprise adoption spans NVIDIA, GE Aerospace, Citi, Mercedes-Benz, Modal, and Sapporo City.

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Benefits

Flexible Work Hours

Growth & Insights and Company News

Headcount

6 month growth

-6%

1 year growth

21%

2 year growth

-3%
Unite.AI
Sep 8th, 2026
Cognition raises $2B Series E at $48B valuation as revenue nears $900M

Cognition has raised over $2 billion in a Series E round at a $48 billion valuation. Andreessen Horowitz and Accel led the funding, with participation from Founders Fund, General Catalyst, Avenir, and a syndicate including Benchmark, Kleiner Perkins, and NVIDIA. The AI software-engineering company's run-rate revenue grew from $492 million in May 2026 to almost $900 million. Cognition attributed the increase to expanding adoption of Devin, its autonomous software-engineering agent used by NVIDIA, GE Aerospace, Citi, Mercedes-Benz, and Modal. Devin now includes Auto-Triage for incident investigation, Security Swarm for vulnerability detection, and Automations that trigger work from events in Slack, GitHub, and Linear. Founded in 2024, Cognition has opened offices in Washington, Tokyo, Singapore, London, São Paulo, and Madrid over the past year.

The Information
Aug 27th, 2026
Inside Cognition’s Booming Growth, High Cash Burn

Revenue is surging at Cognition and several other AI application providers, previously unreported data show, offering some reassurance to investors and hardware suppliers that startups can thrive despite competition from Anthropic and OpenAI. Cognition, which makes the Devin coding assistant, is ...

Beamstart
Aug 12th, 2026
Cognition AI raises $1B at $26B valuation as AI coding tools reshape software development

Cognition AI has raised over $1 billion at a $26 billion post-money valuation, more than doubling from its $10.2 billion valuation last year. The artificial intelligence startup builds autonomous AI agents like Devin that handle complex coding tasks independently. Investors backing the round see significant potential as AI reshapes software development. The deal highlights growing demand for tools that accelerate programming and reduce errors. The high valuation reflects strong belief that AI coding agents will become essential for developers. Businesses may soon rely on these systems to build applications faster and more cheaply. The funding positions Cognition to expand its reach and compete with larger AI players, though it raises questions about future roles for human programmers.

Yahoo Finance
Jul 27th, 2026
LTM and Cognition partner to automate cyber risk remediation in financial services using Devin AI

LTM has partnered with Cognition, the AI lab behind autonomous software engineering agent Devin, to reduce cyber risk in financial services. The partnership integrates Devin into LTM's BlueVerse RightLogic, a cybersecurity assessment and risk assurance framework. BlueVerse RightLogic autonomously identifies, prioritises, and remediates vulnerabilities across banking infrastructure, applications, AI systems, and software supply chains. The system ingests findings from existing scanners, prioritises them against business criticality, and routes fixes to Devin for remediation, with LTM engineers handling complex cases. The service aims to increase Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures backlog coverage from approximately 60% to 80%. The companies are launching five joint offerings, including AI security remediation, application modernisation, SDLC transformation, tech convergence, and database migration services.

Cognition
Jul 23rd, 2026
Welcoming The Interaction Company

Today, we’re welcoming The Interaction Company of California, the makers of Poke, to Cognition.