About the team
OpenAI’s mission is to build safe artificial general intelligence (AGI) which benefits all of humanity. This long-term undertaking brings the world’s best scientists, engineers, and business professionals into one lab together to accomplish this.
In pursuit of this mission, our Go To Market (GTM) team is responsible for helping customers learn how to leverage and deploy our highly capable AI products across their business. The team is made of Sales, Solutions, Support, Marketing, and Partnership professionals that work together to create valuable solutions that will help bring AI to as many users as possible.
About the role
This leadership role will be responsible for driving and implementing the overall sales strategy for ChatGPT Enterprise, managing and coaching a team of sales professionals towards quarterly targets, and achieving successful deployments with our customers.
The ideal candidate will possess significant sales leadership experience and a comprehensive understanding of AI technologies. This leader will have the capability to adapt to a complex and fast-changing technology environment. Responsibilities will include customer acquisition, account management, owning executive relationships, and more.
This individual will also need to be a proven leader who can effectively collaborate cross-functionally with product, marketing, developer relations, operations, and core GTM teams, while guiding and mentoring a sales team towards achieving business objectives.
This role is based in London. 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:
Lead a team of sellers
Partner with Succes to build and execute complex customer programs and projects
Manage revenue forecasts
Closely monitor the industry landscape (people, competitors, partners, etc.) to contribute to product roadmap and other corporate strategies
Support the recruitment and onboarding of other teammates
Support the development of company culture
We're seeking someone with experience including:
5+ years leading Enterprise Sales teams
Selling platform-as-a-service and/or software-as-a-service at a product-led growth company
Designing and executing complex deal strategies
Supporting the growth of fast-growing, high-performance companies
Leading high-visibility customer events (CAB, conferences, product launches, etc.)
Gathering, distilling, and processing complex market (industry, competitor, customer, prospect) intelligence
Reporting on customer success activities
You might thrive in this role if you:
• 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 internal productivity and AI strategy. You build strong relationships with executives and professionals across functions and serve as a trusted advisor.
• Have a passion for 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.
Compensation, Benefits and Perks
This is a position with OpenAI UK Ltd., which controls the hiring and management of this position. Total compensation includes competitive salary, generous equity and benefits.
Private medical insurance covering 100% of premiums for employees and their dependents
Pension plan with 4% employer contribution
52 weeks maternity leave and 20 weeks parental leave
Unlimited time off
Annual learning & development stipend ($1,500 USD equivalent per year)
About OpenAI
OpenAI is an AI research and deployment company dedicated to ensuring that general-purpose artificial intelligence benefits all of humanity. We push the boundaries of the capabilities of AI systems and seek to safely deploy them to the world through our products. AI is an extremely powerful tool that must be created with safety and human needs at its core, and to achieve our mission, we must encompass and value the many different perspectives, voices, and experiences that form the full spectrum of humanity.
We are an equal opportunity employer and do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, veteran status, disability or any other legally protected status.
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