Strategic Sales Development Representative - SF

OpenAI; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 144,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

OpenAI is looking for candidates for an enterprise sales role in San Francisco. This strategic position involves working closely with Account Directors to drive sales and engage clients. Successful candidates will have 4+ years of relevant experience and demonstrate a strong track record in enterprise sales.

As part of a hybrid team, you’ll develop targeted strategies and lead client discovery sessions, while directly impacting business growth. The compensation ranges between $144K and $160K.

Qualifications

• 4+ years of relevant experience in enterprise sales or strategic roles.
• Track record of hitting and exceeding sales targets.
• Strong interest in AI and ability to communicate value to clients.

Responsibilities

• Partner with Account Directors on strategy and deal progression.
• Design targeted outbound strategies into priority accounts.
• Lead discovery to uncover business priorities.

Skills

Enterprise sales experience

Strong communication skills

Stakeholder mapping

Job description

About The Team

OpenAI’s Enterprise Go-To-Market organization helps the world’s largest companies adopt and scale our AI platform across their business—from ChatGPT Enterprise to our developer platform and APIs. We partner with organizations across Financial Services, Life Sciences, and Retail to build new AI‑powered customer experiences, transform operations, and reimagine how work gets done in highly regulated and technically complex environments. As adoption accelerates through pilots, experimentation, and developer‑led use cases, the GTM team turns that momentum into durable, enterprise‑wide deployments.

Sales Development sits at the front of this motion—where technical curiosity turns into executive engagement, and early product signals become enterprise‑wide deployments.

About The Role

This role is designed as a launchpad for future enterprise sellers at OpenAI. It is a highly strategic role with significant exposure to enterprise sales, product, and customer strategy. You will 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 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 we do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, age, veteran status, disability, genetic information, or other applicable legally protected characteristic. For additional information, please see OpenAI’s Affirmative Action and Equal Employment Opportunity Policy Statement. Background checks for applicants will be administered in accordance with applicable law, and qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment consistent with those laws, including the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers, and the California Fair Chance Act, for US‑based candidates. We are committed to providing reasonable accommodations to applicants with disabilities, and requests can be made via this link.

Compensation

Compensation Range: $144K – $160K