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SDR Manager

Hybrid

Part remote, part office, you need to live within commuting distance of a named location.

Hybrid · Dublin, Ireland

Employer listed it 4 days ago · Added 2 days ago

First listed 4 days ago and still open.

Salary

Not stated

Location

Hybrid · Dublin, Ireland

Timezone

Not stated

Contract

Full-time

Experience

Mid

Category

Other

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What the advert says

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Working hours
Not mentioned in the advert
Where you can work from
Please note this role is based in Dublin with office attendance required 3 days a week.
Contract
Not mentioned in the advert
Experience asked for
Have 6–10+ years of experience and overachievement in sales, business development, or GTM roles, with at least 3+ years in management
Pay
Not mentioned in the advert

Remote flexibility

Hybrid

This role is only partly remote, the employer expects time in the office around Dublin, Ireland, Hybrid, so you need to live within commuting distance.

What the employer says

  • Source listing states candidate location: "Dublin, Ireland, Hybrid"
  • Listing mentions "Hybrid" and 3 days a week in the office

What Nomaders makes of it

  • Not suitable if you plan to move between countries

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Before you apply

Experience: employer states

Written as a requirement

  • “Have 6–10+ years of experience and overachievement in sales, business development, or GTM roles, with at least 3+ years in management”
  • “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.”

Questions worth asking: Nomaders interpretation

  • This role involves office time, but the advert does not say how often. Ask how many days a week are expected on site.
  • No pay is stated. Ask for the salary range before investing time in interviews.
  • The advert does not say whether this is employment or a contractor arrangement. Ask, as it affects tax and benefits.

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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, and Retail to build new AI-powered customer experiences, transform operations, and reimagine how work gets done in highly regulated and technically complex environments. 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 Sales Development Manager, EMEA to lead a team of SDRs supporting our Enterprise Sales team across EMEA. Reporting into the Head of EMEA Sales Development, this role will be responsible for coaching and developing a high-performing team focused on generating qualified pipeline and creating strategic enterprise opportunities.

This is a foundational front-line leadership role within OpenAI’s enterprise GTM organization. You will help define how we engage prospective customers, convert product and developer interest into enterprise conversations, and scale repeatable outbound and inbound motions across some of the world’s largest organizations.

You will partner closely with Sales, Marketing, Solutions Engineering, Partnerships, and Strategy & Operations to drive pipeline generation and help shape the future of OpenAI’s enterprise growth engine.

Please note this role is based in Dublin with office attendance required 3 days a week.

In this role, you will

Lead, coach, and develop a team of SDRs supporting Enterprise sales teams across EMEA

Drive high-quality pipeline generation through outbound prospecting, inbound qualification, account-based motions, and product-led signals

Establish strong operational rigor around activity metrics, conversion rates, pipeline quality, and execution consistency

Partner closely with Account Directors and enterprise sales leadership on territory planning, account prioritization, and opportunity development

Help define scalable SDR playbooks across outbound, inbound, ABM, partner-sourced, and product-led motions

Coach SDRs on executive communication, discovery, account research, and strategic prospecting

Build a high-performance, collaborative, and low-ego team culture focused on continuous improvement

Work cross-functionally with Marketing, Partnerships, Solutions Engineering, and Strategy & Operations to optimize pipeline generation efforts

Support hiring, onboarding, and ramping of new SDR talent as the organization scales

Bring market feedback and customer insights back into the broader GTM organization

You may thrive in this role if you

Have 6–10+ years of experience and overachievement in sales, business development, or GTM roles, with at least 3+ years in management

Bring experience managing SDRs or business development teams in enterprise SaaS or platform businesses

Have a strong understanding of enterprise prospecting, pipeline generation, and outbound strategy

Requirements

The employer hasn't listed requirements separately, they're described in the role summary above and on the original listing.

Benefits

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How to apply

  1. 1Check the flexibility label above, hybrid, matches where you plan to live and work.
  2. 2Tailor your CV to the role at OpenAI, mentioning your remote working experience.
  3. 3Apply directly on the employer's careers page using the button below. Nomaders never handles your application.

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