OpenAI
Sales Development Manager, Enterprise (AMER)
Part remote, part office, you need to live within commuting distance of a named location.
Hybrid · San Francisco
Employer listed it 3 weeks ago · Added 5 days ago
Been open since 3 weeks ago, still being checked, but it has been live a while.
Salary
$261,000 to $305,000
Location
Hybrid · San Francisco
Timezone
Not stated
Contract
Full-time
Experience
Senior
Category
Sales
Published by the employer
Remote flexibility
Hybrid
This role is only partly remote, the employer expects time in the office around San Francisco, Hybrid, so you need to live within commuting distance.
What the employer says
- Source listing states candidate location: "San Francisco, Hybrid"
- Listing mentions "Hybrid"
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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, AMER to lead a team of SDRs supporting our Large Enterprise business across North America. Reporting into Sales Development leadership, 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.
In this role, you will:
Lead, coach, and develop a team of SDRs supporting Large Enterprise, Verticals, and Strategic Accounts across AMER
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 in sales, business development, or GTM roles
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
Are highly operational and data-driven, with experience managing metrics, conversion funnels, and forecasting
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
- 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.
- 3Apply directly on the employer's careers page using the button below. Nomaders never handles your application.
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