OpenAI
APAC Sales Development Leader
Part remote, part office, you need to live within commuting distance of a named location.
Hybrid · Singapore
Employer listed it 5 months ago · Added 4 days ago
Been open since 5 months ago. Long-running listings are sometimes left up after the role is filled.
Salary
Not stated
Location
Hybrid · Singapore
Timezone
APAC
Contract
Full-time
Experience
Lead
Category
Sales
This employer didn't state pay. Jobs like this usually pay around $170k–$280k a year, a typical range taken from 342 lead-level sales roles on Nomaders that do state pay. It's a guide, not an offer.
Remote flexibility
Hybrid
This role is only partly remote, the employer expects time in the office around Singapore, Hybrid, so you need to live within commuting distance.
What the employer says
- Source listing states candidate location: "Singapore, Hybrid"
- Listing mentions "Hybrid"
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- Not suitable if you plan to move between countries
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About the role
About the team
OpenAI’s Enterprise Go-To-Market organization helps the world’s largest companies adopt and scale our AI platform across their business—from ChatGPT Enterprise to our developer platform and APIs.
We partner with organizations across Financial Services, Life Sciences, Retail, Manufacturing, Technology, and other key industries across Asia Pacific to build AI-powered customer experiences, transform operations, and accelerate innovation. As adoption accelerates through pilots, experimentation, and developer-led use cases, the GTM team turns that momentum into durable, enterprise-wide deployments.
Sales Development sits at the front of this motion—where technical curiosity becomes executive engagement and OpenAI’s enterprise relationships begin.
About the role
We are hiring a APAC Sales Development Leader to build and lead OpenAI’s enterprise Sales Development organization across Asia Pacific. Reporting directly to the Head of Global Sales Development, this role is a core part of the Enterprise GTM leadership team.
This is a high-impact leadership role focused on scaling pipeline generation and market development across a diverse and rapidly growing region. You will define how OpenAI engages enterprise customers across APAC, build regional SDR leadership and teams, and create the operating model that converts product interest, developer activity, and inbound demand into high-quality pipeline for our Enterprise and Strategic Accounts organizations.
In this role, you will
Build and scale OpenAI’s APAC Sales Development organization, including hiring strategy, org design, enablement, and performance management.
Lead and develop front-line SDR managers and SDR teams across key APAC markets.
Own the regional enterprise pipeline generation strategy, ensuring consistent, high-quality opportunity creation across the region.
Translate product usage, pilots, developer engagement, and inbound interest into qualified enterprise opportunities.
Develop localized and vertical-specific SDR motions tailored to APAC markets and buying environments.
Partner closely with Sales, Marketing, Field Engineering, Partnerships, and Strategy & Ops to drive a coordinated regional GTM motion.
Establish scalable outbound, inbound, ABM, partner-led, and product-led pipeline generation playbooks.
Build a data-driven operating cadence focused on pipeline quality, conversion, velocity, and long-term revenue impact.
Help define OpenAI’s market expansion strategy across APAC, including investment prioritization and territory planning.
Serve as a strategic partner to regional sales leadership on how to capture and accelerate enterprise demand.
You may thrive in this role if you
Have 10+ years of experience in enterprise sales, revenue, or GTM leadership.
Bring significant experience leading SDR or pipeline generation organizations across APAC.
Have experience managing distributed, multicultural teams across multiple countries and time zones.
Have built or scaled enterprise demand generation engines in fast-growing technology or platform businesses.
Are fluent in product-led and usage-based GTM motions (PQLs, pilots, free-to-paid, expansion).
Requirements
The employer hasn't listed requirements separately, they're described in the role summary above and on the original listing.
Benefits
No benefits package published with this listing. Ask about it at first interview.
How to apply
- 1Check the flexibility label above, hybrid, matches where you plan to live and work.
- 2Tailor your CV to the role at OpenAI, mentioning your remote working experience and working hours (APAC).
- 3Apply directly on the employer's careers page using the button below. Nomaders never handles your application.
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