OpenAI

North America Co-Sell Leader

OpenAI$150K — $200K *
US-AnywhereRemote in San Francisco, CA
Enterprise Technology
11 - 15 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 12+ years in enterprise sales, cloud alliances, or partner sales leadership
  • Experience managing regional/global co-sell organizations
  • Proven track record of achieving significant revenue targets
  • Deep knowledge of cloud providers and consulting firms
  • Strong grasp of account planning and pipeline management
  • Ability to influence stakeholders in complex environments
  • Exceptional leadership and coaching capabilities

Responsibilities

  • Lead a high-performing North America Co-Sell team
  • Own regional revenue targets for partner pipeline and bookings
  • Build scalable co-sell strategies with key partners
  • Drive comprehensive account mapping to uncover joint opportunities
  • Coordinate with Sales leadership on opportunity execution
  • Ensure successful deployment of customer AI workloads
  • Establish operating rhythms to enhance customer outcomes
  • Conduct executive reviews with partners on performance and priorities
  • Define operating metrics and dashboards for accountability
  • Enhance partner engagement and co-sell processes

Benefits

  • Opportunity to work with cutting-edge AI technology
  • Culture of collaboration and customer obsession
  • Access to a high-growth environment with significant impact
  • Leadership development and coaching opportunities
  • Chance to shape the future of AI deployment in enterprises
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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