Sales Strategy & Operations (SF)

OpenAI • Full-time • San Francisco, California, United States • $265k / year • 3w ago

About the team

OpenAI’s mission is to build safe artificial general intelligence (AGI) which benefits all of humanity. This long-term undertaking brings the world’s best scientists, engineers, and business professionals into one lab together to accomplish this.

In pursuit of this mission, our Go To Market (GTM) team is responsible for helping customers learn how to leverage and deploy our highly capable AI products across their business. The team is made of Sales, Solutions, Support, Marketing, and Partnership professionals that work together to create valuable solutions that will help bring AI to as many users as possible.

About the Role

Our GTM team is uniquely positioned to help customers realize the transformative potential of advanced AI models for their businesses and end users. As part of the GTM Strategy & Operations team, you’ll play a critical role in guiding the GTM strategy and driving the operational efficiency to accomplish this mission.

This role serves as a trusted advisor to GTM leadership—providing data-driven insights, managing core operating cadences, and leading high-impact projects that influence how we engage with customers and scale our business. You’ll collaborate cross-functionally with Finance, Enablement, Data and Growth Strategy teams to align efforts, drive efficiencies, and accelerate growth.

This role is based in our San Francisco or New York City office. We use a hybrid work model of 3 days in the office per week and offer relocation assistance to new employees.

In this role, you'll:

Drive GTM operating cadences (e.g. forecasting, pipeline review, top accounts review, monthly / quarterly business reviews) and conduct strategic analyses to determine trends and identify opportunities for process and strategy optimization
Collaborate with GTM leadership and cross-functional stakeholders to develop go-to market strategy and resource plans
Design and manage territory allocation to optimize sales team performance; Collaborate closely with the GTM leadership to ensure alignment with overall business objectives and provide data-driven recommendations for territory adjustments.
Lead strategic projects to improve efficiency and effectiveness across the revenue organization.
Partner closely with technical teams to implement processes systematically.
Work closely with the data team to ensure data accuracy and availability for revenue-related activities.

You might thrive in this role if you have:

7+ years experience in revenue operations or strategy at a high-growth, technology company
Proficiency in Salesforce.com and data analysis tools (e.g., SQL, Excel)
Strong analytical skills with a focus on attention to detail
Experience building territories, comp plans, and setting quotas for GTM teams
Exceptional project management skills, with experience leading complex, cross-functional initiatives
Strong communication skills and executive presence
An understanding of the AI landscape, our applications, and the problems they solve for our customers.
The ability to thrive in ambiguity and work autonomously
Exceptional organizational skills
The ability to operate with high horsepower, be adept at frequent context switching and working on multiple projects at once with expansive ownership, and ruthless prioritization

About OpenAI

OpenAI is an AI research and deployment company dedicated to ensuring that general-purpose artificial intelligence benefits all of humanity. We push the boundaries of the capabilities of AI systems and seek to safely deploy them to the world through our products. AI is an extremely powerful tool that must be created with safety and human needs at its core, and to achieve our mission, we must encompass and value the many different perspectives, voices, and experiences that form the full spectrum of humanity.

We are an equal opportunity employer and do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, veteran status, disability or any other legally protected status.

OpenAI Affirmative Action and Equal Employment Opportunity Policy Statement

For US Based Candidates: Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.

We are committed to providing reasonable accommodations to applicants with disabilities, and requests can be made via this link.

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At OpenAI, we believe artificial intelligence has the potential to help people solve immense global challenges, and we want the upside of AI to be widely shared. Join us in shaping the future of technology.

Compensation Range: $265K

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