8+ years in platform-as-a-service or software-as-a-service sales
Proven record of achieving revenue targets over $1M annually for 3+ years
Experience managing complex sales cycles with enterprise clients
Successful closing of deals with fast-growing, high-performance organizations
Proficient in communicating technical concepts to diverse audiences
Experienced in leading high-visibility customer events
Skilled in gathering and processing complex market intelligence
Responsibilities
Build and manage a robust pipeline of new business opportunities
Guide enterprise prospects through their journey to successful deployment
Collaborate with solutions and research engineering teams on complex initiatives
Achieve and monitor consumption revenue targets
Analyze opportunity metrics and generate actionable reports
Track industry landscape and contribute to strategic planning
Work alongside various internal teams to support organizational objectives
Aid in the recruitment and onboarding of new teammates
Benefits
Hybrid work model allowing flexibility between home and office
Relocation assistance for new hires
Commitment to diversity and inclusion in the workplace
Opportunities for professional development
Engagement in high-impact work that benefits humanity
Full Job Description
About the role
Our Sales team has a unique mission to help customers understand the deep impact that highly capable AI models can bring to their business and users. This role is a mixture of technical understanding, vision, partnership, and value-driven strategy.
You'll be a key driver of new business opportunities through the entire sales cycle, from pipeline generation to closure. You'll work with researchers, engineers, and solution strategists to help customers evolve their industry with AI.
This role can be based in our San Francisco, New York, or Seattle offices. We are also considering applications to work remotely from within the U.S. 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:
Build and manage a pipeline of new business opportunities
Lead our enterprise prospects' journeys from consideration to successful deployment
Partner with solutions and research engineering to build and execute complex customer programs and projects
Own a consumption revenue target
Analyze opportunity metrics to create reports and provide insights to internal stakeholders
Closely monitor the industry landscape (people, competitors, partners, etc.) to contribute to product roadmap and other corporate strategies
Collaborate with solutions, marketing, communications, business operations, people operations, finance, product management, and engineering
Support the recruitment and onboarding of other teammates
Support the development of company culture
We're seeking someone with experience including:
8+ years selling platform-as-a-service and/or software-as-a-service
Achieving revenue targets >$1M per year for more than 3 years
Managing and executing complex sales cycles with enterprise customers
Closing deals with fast-growing, high-performance companies
Working directly with c-level executives
Communicating technical concepts to customers and internal stakeholders
Leading high-visibility customer events (CAB, conferences, product launches, etc.)
Are customer-centric. You are motivated to deeply understand your customer's priorities and help them achieve their vision for using our models to improve their products and services. You build strong relationships with executives and professionals across functions and serve as a trusted advisor.
Have a passion or deep curiosity in artificial intelligence. You embrace the opportunity to help deploy our technology in a way that benefits humanity. You're excited to educate our customers on AI and how to plan for the future.
Are a builder. You are excited to impact how our company operates and scales. Your passion is building strong systems and processes from the ground up and executing them with precision.
Are excited by new challenges. You don't have the answers to every question up front, but the process of solving them invigorates you. Bespoke issues requiring multidimensional knowledge excite you. You're willing to experiment with new solutions.
Are a strategist. You deeply understand go to market best practices and raise the bar for our organization. You think and plan forward on the order of years and bring internal and external stakeholders along with your strategy.
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.
