OpenAI

North America Co-Sell Leader

OpenAI$150K — $200K *
Information Technology
11 - 15 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 12+ years of experience in enterprise sales, cloud alliances, or partner sales leadership
  • Experience leading regional or global co-sell organizations with direct people management responsibility
  • Demonstrated success owning revenue targets and delivering measurable business growth
  • Deep experience with cloud providers and enterprise technology partners
  • Strong understanding of enterprise sales motions and account planning
  • Exceptional leadership and coaching skills
  • Ability to influence executive stakeholders in complex environments

Responsibilities

  • Lead and develop a high-performing North America Co-Sell team
  • Own a regional revenue target tied to partner pipeline and bookings
  • Build scalable co-sell motions with strategic partners
  • Drive comprehensive account mapping to accelerate pipeline growth
  • Partner with Sales leadership on territory planning and strategy
  • Ensure customer AI workloads are successfully deployed and expanded
  • Build strong operating rhythms across various teams to accelerate outcomes

Benefits

  • Build a high-impact leadership role at the forefront of AI and cloud technologies
  • Work collaboratively with leading partners in the industry
  • Access to cutting-edge tools and resources to enhance the partnership model
  • Foster a culture of accountability and collaboration across teams
  • Drive significant customer outcomes within a rapidly evolving landscape
Full Job Description
About the Role

We are hiring a North America Co-Sell Leader to build and lead OpenAI's regional co-sell organization across the Americas.

This is a highly strategic, revenue-carrying leadership role responsible for driving joint go-to-market execution between OpenAI's field organization and our most strategic partners. You will lead a team focused on developing repeatable co-sell motions, driving large-scale account mapping, accelerating joint pipeline, and ensuring partner-led customer opportunities progress successfully from opportunity identification through deployment.

Beyond driving pipeline and bookings, this leader will work closely with OpenAI Sales, Customer Success, Solutions Engineering, and partner delivery organizations to ensure AI workloads are not only sold, but successfully implemented and scaled in production. Success requires aligning commercial and delivery teams across both OpenAI and our partners to deliver exceptional customer outcomes.

In This Role, You Will
  • Lead and develop a high-performing North America Co-Sell team responsible for executing OpenAI's regional partner go-to-market strategy.
  • Own a regional revenue target tied to partner-attached pipeline, bookings, and customer adoption across strategic partners.
  • Build scalable co-sell and co-deployment motions with strategic cloud providers, global systems integrators, consulting firms, and technology partners.
  • Drive comprehensive account mapping across OpenAI and key partners to identify whitespace, prioritize joint opportunities, and accelerate pipeline growth.
  • Partner closely with Sales leadership to embed partners into territory planning, account strategy, and opportunity execution.
  • Work with OpenAI and partner delivery teams to ensure customer AI workloads are successfully sold, deployed, and expanded in production.
  • Build strong operating rhythms across Sales, Partnerships, Customer Success, Solutions Engineering, and partner organizations to accelerate customer outcomes.
  • Lead executive business reviews with strategic partners to assess revenue performance, pipeline health, delivery readiness, and joint business priorities.
  • Define regional operating metrics, forecasting, dashboards, and inspection mechanisms to drive execution and accountability.
  • Continuously improve partner engagement models, co-sell processes, and operational excellence to increase scale and efficiency.
  • Influence executive stakeholders across OpenAI and partner organizations to remove obstacles and accelerate customer success.
  • Coach and develop a high-performing team while fostering a culture of accountability, collaboration, and customer obsession.

You Might Thrive in This Role If You Have
  • 12+ years of experience in enterprise sales, cloud alliances, partnerships, or partner sales leadership.
  • Experience leading regional or global co-sell organizations with direct people management responsibility.
  • Demonstrated success owning meaningful revenue targets and delivering measurable business growth.
  • Deep experience working with cloud providers, global systems integrators, consulting firms, or enterprise technology partners.
  • Strong understanding of enterprise sales motions, account planning, pipeline management, and partner ecosystems.
  • Experience building structured account mapping programs that generate measurable pipeline and revenue outcomes.
  • Proven ability to influence executive stakeholders across multiple organizations while driving alignment through complex matrixed environments.
  • Strong operational rigor with experience developing forecasting models, business reviews, KPIs, and execution cadences.
  • Exceptional leadership, coaching, and organizational development skills.
  • A collaborative, customer-first mindset with the ability to navigate ambiguity and drive execution at scale.

Preferred Qualifications
  • Experience leading strategic partnerships for cloud, AI, SaaS, or enterprise infrastructure companies.
  • Experience working closely with delivery organizations to ensure successful customer implementations and long-term adoption.
  • Familiarity with AI platforms, enterprise software ecosystems, and modern cloud architectures.
  • Experience managing cross-functional organizations responsible for both commercial execution and operational excellence.

Why This Role Matters

As OpenAI's partner ecosystem continues to grow, customer success increasingly depends on coordinated execution across sales, partnerships, and delivery. This role will define how OpenAI and its strategic partners jointly create pipeline, win enterprise opportunities, and ensure AI workloads are successfully deployed and expanded in production.

You will build the operating model that connects partnership strategy, commercial execution, and partner delivery-helping customers move from initial AI adoption to durable, production-scale impact while driving measurable revenue growth across North America.

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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2015

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