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Strategic Pursuits Lead

OpenAI · San Francisco · Remote

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About OpenAI

Backed by Greylock, Insight and Khosla.

About the role

At OpenAI, we're building toward an agent-first world where AI systems reason, act, transact, and create alongside people and businesses. As agents become a primary interface for work, the Strategic Pursuits Team leads our most complex enterprise opportunities and helps define how customers adopt OpenAI at scale.

What they're looking for

  • 10+ years in strategic partnerships, complex enterprise GTM, platform sales, business development, corporate strategy, or strategic deal execution in high-growth technology
  • Proven ability to lead high-ambiguity, multi-threaded initiatives where customer vision, product strategy, technical delivery, and commercial structure evolve in parallel
  • Strong commercial judgment and experience shaping multi-product, multi-stakeholder, or first-of-kind enterprise deals
  • Exceptional at influencing across executive, technical, commercial, and operational audiences, with the judgment to be both connective tissue and decision driver
  • Systems thinker who can translate frontier capabilities into practical customer strategies, commercial models, operating motions, and deployment paths
  • Deeply aligned with OpenAI's mission to ensure AGI benefits all of humanity, and motivated to turn frontier technology into practical, governed impact at enterprise scale
More about this role

OpenAI’s mission is to build safe artificial general intelligence (AGI) that benefits all of humanity. Achieving this requires bringing together world-class scientists, engineers, and business leaders to translate frontier research into real-world impact.

Within OpenAI, the Go-to-Market organization helps customers understand, adopt, and scale our products across their businesses. The team includes Sales, Solutions, Support, Marketing, Partnerships, and Strategic Pursuits professionals who work together to bring the benefits of AI to organizations globally.

At OpenAI, we're building toward an agent-first world where AI systems reason, act, transact, and create alongside people and businesses. As agents become a primary interface for work, the Strategic Pursuits Team leads our most complex enterprise opportunities and helps define how customers adopt OpenAI at scale.

We're seeking a Strategic Pursuits Lead to shape and close high-impact enterprise opportunities across Frontier, AI Solutions, ChatGPT, Codex, API, and emerging offerings. This person partners with customers, account teams, Product, FDE, Legal, Finance, GTM, and executives to turn ambiguous demand into a clear vision,...

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