Enterprise Sales Manager, Healthcare & Life Sciences
OpenAIVisit OpenAI website
AI research and deployment company building and deploying frontier AI products, including ChatGPT, Codex, and its API platform.
49 current maintainers29 active leads5 new active leads117 lead step-downs16 early lead departures
San Francisco, United States
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About OpenAI
OpenAI’s mission is to ensure artificial general intelligence benefits all of humanity. It consists of the nonprofit OpenAI Foundation and OpenAI Group, a public benefit corporation governed by the Foundation.
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About the Role
You will recruit, develop and coach high-performing enterprise sales teams serving strategic healthcare and life sciences accounts across North America. You will shape go-to-market strategy and playbooks, drive pipeline and forecasting, guide complex consultative sales cycles, and help customers move from pilots to scaled AI adoption.
Requirements
- 15+ years of enterprise sales, go-to-market, or sales leadership experience, including leading teams selling into healthcare or life sciences
- Proven track record building and scaling enterprise sales teams for complex strategic accounts
- Ability to coach senior Account Directors through complex opportunities
- Deep expertise in healthcare and life sciences segments
- Experience developing new go-to-market motions
- Operational rigor in forecasting, pipeline management, territory planning
- Technical fluency to discuss APIs, enterprise AI platforms, data integration, and deployment
- Strong executive presence with CIOs, CTOs, and senior leaders
Responsibilities
- Recruit, develop, and lead high-performing enterprise sales teams serving healthcare and life sciences accounts across North America
- Build a coaching culture through deal reviews, account strategy sessions, and structured development
- Shape industry-specific go-to-market strategies including segmentation, prioritization, and territory planning
- Drive pipeline generation, accurate forecasting, and execution across complex enterprise opportunities
- Guide consultative sales cycles involving business, IT, R&D, clinical, security, privacy, compliance, procurement, and legal stakeholders
- Help customers connect AI capabilities to measurable outcomes
- Coach teams to build business cases
- Help customers move from pilots to broader adoption
- Partner with Product, Solutions Architecture, Technical Success, Legal, Security, Finance, and Marketing
- Bring structured feedback to Product and leadership
- Establish a culture of accountability, customer focus, and operational excellence
Benefits
- Equity
- Commission
- Medical, dental, and vision insurance with HSA employer contributions
- Health FSA, Dependent Care FSA, and commuter pre-tax accounts
- 401(k) with employer match
- Paid parental leave, medical and caregiver leave
- Flexible PTO
- 13+ paid company holidays and company office closures
- Mental health and wellness support
- Employer-paid basic life and disability coverage
- Annual learning and development stipend
- Daily meals in offices and meal delivery credits
- Relocation support
- Charitable donation matching and wellness stipends
