OpenAI

Account Associate - SF

OpenAI • $100K — $120K *
Finance & Insurance
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 4+ years of experience in enterprise sales or strategic customer-facing roles
  • Proven track record of exceeding targets in sales environments
  • Experience selling to heavily regulated industries such as Financial Services, Life Sciences, and Retail
  • Strong communication skills with the ability to engage C-Suite stakeholders
  • Demonstrated interest in AI and ability to relate products to business outcomes
  • Comfortable operating in ambiguous situations and taking ownership
  • Ability to evangelize new technology and educate customers on potential applications

Responsibilities

  • Partner with Account Directors to develop account strategies and drive deal progression
  • Execute targeted outbound strategies that leverage industry knowledge and stakeholder insights
  • Conduct quality discovery sessions to identify business priorities and assess enterprise readiness
  • Share insights and early competitive signals during pipeline reviews
  • Create and refine AI-driven go-to-market workflows to improve prospecting and qualification processes

Benefits

  • Relocation assistance available for new employees
  • Hybrid work model with 3 days in the office
  • Opportunity to learn and grow into an enterprise sales role
  • Exposure to high-level strategies in AI adoption across industries
  • Access to a dynamic and innovative work environment at a leading AI company
Full Job Description
About the Role

This role is designed as a launchpad for future enterprise sellers at OpenAI. This is a highly strategic role with significant exposure to enterprise sales, product, and customer strategy. You'll develop core skills in discovery, stakeholder mapping, deal shaping, and executive communication while building a deep understanding of how leading companies adopt AI.

We are looking for individuals with 4-6+ years of professional experience who are motivated to grow into world-class enterprise sellers over time. While many individuals in this role go on to become Account Directors or take on broader GTM roles, progression is based on performance and business needs rather than a fixed timeline.

For the right person, this is one of the most accelerated paths to break into sales at OpenAI and build a long-term career in AI go-to-market.

In this role, you will identify, shape, and advance complex enterprise opportunities by turning product usage, pilots, and inbound demand into qualified, high-conviction enterprise opportunities for our Large Enterprise and Strategic Accounts teams.

This role is based in San Francisco. We use a hybrid work model of 3 days in the office per week (Monday through Wednesday) and offer relocation assistance to new employees.

In this role, you will:
  • Partner with Account Directors on account strategy, multi-threading, and deal progression
  • Design and execute targeted outbound strategies using industry context, stakeholder mapping, and product signal to break into priority accounts
  • Lead high-quality discovery to uncover business priorities, map stakeholders, and assess enterprise readiness
  • Contribute to pipeline reviews by sharing outbound activity, account insights, and early competitive signals.
  • Build and iterate on AI-enabled GTM workflows (GPTs/agents) to scale prospecting and qualification

You may thrive in this role if you:
  • Have 4+ years of relevant experience in enterprise sales, or in strategic customer-facing roles in the finance or consulting industry
  • Have a track record of consistently hitting and exceeding ambitious targets in enterprise or strategic sales environments
  • Experience selling into regulated or complex industries (Financial Services, Life Sciences, Retail)
  • Strong communication skills and executive presence; able to build credibility with senior C-Suite stakeholders across an organization, and speak fluently with technical buyers
  • Strong interest in the AI landscape with the ability to connect OpenAI products to real customer value and business outcomes
  • You enjoy evangelizing new technology and helping the market understand what's possible
  • You're comfortable with ambiguity, moving quickly, and operating well with a high degree of ownership


About OpenAI

OpenAI is an artificial intelligence research laboratory consisting of the for-profit corporation OpenAI LP and its parent company, the non-profit OpenAI Inc. The company was founded in 2015 by a group of technology leaders, including Elon Musk, Sam Altman, Greg Brockman, Ilya Sutskever, and John Schulman. OpenAI's mission is to develop and promote friendly AI for the betterment of humanity. The company has developed a number of cutting-edge AI technologies, including GPT-3, a language processing system that can generate human-like text. OpenAI has received funding from a number of high-profile investors, including LinkedIn co-founder Reid Hoffman and venture capitalist Peter Thiel.
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100 employees
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Founded
2015

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