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Partner Sales & Development Leader

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
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 lead the partner sales and development team for either the South & East or North & West region of North America, reporting to the North America Co-Sell Leader. You will own the regional partner business, run joint account planning and co-sell pursuits, build partner relationships, and hire and coach your team.

Requirements

  • Significant experience in enterprise sales, partner sales, strategic alliances or business development in cloud, AI, SaaS or enterprise technology
  • Track record owning regional or segment-level business outcomes through partners
  • Direct people management experience including hiring, coaching and performance management
  • Familiarity with cloud providers, GSIs, consulting firms or technology partner ecosystems
  • Experience leading complex partnerships from discovery through expansion
  • Strong enterprise sales fundamentals including account planning, negotiation, pipeline management and forecasting
  • Technical-commercial fluency
  • Clear communication and executive presence

Responsibilities

  • Own the partner sales and development plan for your region
  • Drive regional commercial outcomes across pipeline, bookings, production adoption and expansion
  • Identify and develop new partner-led opportunities
  • Lead account mapping and joint account planning
  • Orchestrate complex co-sell pursuits
  • Build relationships with regional partner executives and field leaders
  • Partner with Solutions Engineering, Customer Success, Product and partner delivery teams
  • Create repeatable field engagement models, enablement and sales plays
  • Run pipeline reviews, forecasting and performance reporting
  • Navigate stakeholder relationships across Legal, Security and Finance
  • Hire, manage, coach and develop a regional team

Benefits

  • Equity
  • 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 up to 24 weeks for birth parents and 20 weeks for non-birthing parents
  • Paid medical and caregiver leave up to 8 weeks
  • Flexible PTO for exempt employees
  • 13+ paid company holidays and company office closures
  • Paid sick or safe time
  • 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