Partner Sales & Development Leader at OpenAI · LumiJobs
Remote
senior
$335k–$420k
H1B: yes
OpenAI Partner Sales & Development Leader role managing a regional team to drive partner sales and development in North America. Responsible for generating pipeline, advancing pursuits, and driving revenue through strategic partnerships.
Responsibilities
We are hiring a Partner Sales & Development Manager to lead our partner sales and development team for either the South & East or North & West region of North America. Reporting to the North America Co-Sell Leader, you will manage and develop a regional team, own the regional partner business, and work alongside OpenAI Sales leadership and strategic partners to generate pipeline, advance complex pursuits, and drive revenue and customer adoption.
This is a people management role that combines team leadership, partner business development, co-sell execution, and operational discipline. You will translate broader partnership priorities into a focused regional plan, set team goals and account coverage, and coach your team to engage the right partners at the right point in the customer journey. You will build relationships with partner field leaders and remain hands-on in priority pursuits, working with technical and delivery teams to turn commercial commitments into sustained customer value.
Own the partner sales and development plan for your assigned region—South & East or North & West—aligning team coverage, target accounts, partner priorities, sales plays, and execution milestones with regional Sales leadership and the North America Co-Sell Leader.
Drive regional commercial outcomes across partner-sourced and partner-attached pipeline, bookings, production adoption, and expansion, with clear accountability for business performance.
Identify and develop new partner-led opportunities. Evaluate where partners can create differentiated customer value, establish executive sponsorship, and build a path from initial engagement to joint execution.
Lead account mapping and joint account planning with OpenAI sellers and partner teams to identify whitespace, qualify opportunities, and prioritize the accounts and use cases with the greatest potential.
Orchestrate complex co-sell pursuits, aligning account teams, partner sellers, technical stakeholders, and services organizations around customer needs, clear responsibilities, and mutual action plans.
Build trusted relationships with regional partner executives and field leaders, while coordinating with global partner owners to ensure regional execution supports the broader partnership strategy.
Partner with Solutions Engineering, Customer Success, Product, and partner delivery teams to address technical and implementation dependencies and help customers deploy, adopt, and expand AI workloads in production.
Create repeatable field engagement models, partner enablement, sales plays, and escalation paths that make it easier for OpenAI and partner teams to work together effectively.
Establish disciplined pipeline reviews, forecasting, business reviews, and performance reporting. Use evidence to assess partner contribution, diagnose underperformance, and adjust investments and priorities.
Navigate complex stakeholder relationships, commercial tradeoffs, and competing priorities with sound judgment, working across Legal, Security, Finance, and other teams as needed.
Qualification
Familiarity with AI platformsWe are an equal opportunity employerFor additional information
Preferred
Experience managing geographically distributed teams and aligning account or territory coverage across a region.
Experience building or scaling a regional partner sales or co-sell business at a high-growth technology company.
Experience aligning sales and partner delivery organizations to support enterprise implementations and sustained production adoption.
Familiarity with AI platforms, modern cloud architectures, cloud marketplaces, and enterprise procurement models.
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. For unincorporated Los Angeles County workers: we reasonably believe that criminal history may have a direct, adverse and negative relationship with the following job duties, potentially resulting in the withdrawal of a conditional offer of employment: protect computer hardware entrusted to you from theft, loss or damage; return all computer hardware in your possession (including the data contained therein) upon termination of employment or end of assignment; and maintain the confidentiality of proprietary, confidential, and non-public information. In addition, job duties require access to secure and protected information technology systems and related data security obligations.
