Enterprise Sales Leader, Financial Services

About the team

OpenAIs mission is to build safe artificial general intelligence (AGI) that benefits all of humanity. Our Go-To-Market (GTM) team helps organizations understand adopt and scale our AI products across their businessfrom ChatGPT Enterprise to our developer platform and APIs.

The Enterprise Sales organization partners with the worlds largest companies to build new AI-powered customer experiences transform operations and reimagine how work gets done. We are expanding our industry focus across Financial Services Healthcare & Life Sciences Retail and other strategic industries and building repeatable best practices for how enterprises adopt AI at scale.

About the role

As Enterprise Sales Leader Financial Services you will build and lead a team of Account Directors focused on landing and growing our largest Financial Services customers.
Youll be a hands-on front-line leader: coaching reps through complex opportunities driving disciplined pipeline and forecasting practices and creating the vertical GTM playbook for how OpenAI engages the Financial Services market. This foundational leadership role will shape how leading Financial Services organizations adopt AI and how we scale this motion across Enterprise.

In this role you will:

• Recruit develop and lead a team of Enterprise Account Directors focused on new business and strategic expansion in Financial Services.

• Create a strong coaching culture with frequent deal reviews ride-alongs and structured 1:1s that elevate performance.

• Define and refine the GTM strategy for Financial Services accounts aligned to our evolving territory and account coverage model.

• Drive territory design account prioritization and coverage approaches that balance new customer acquisition with strategic expansion.

• Establish clear operating rhythms for pipeline and forecast management with explicit expectations on activity coverage and deal quality.

• Hold the team accountable for building and closing high-quality multi-stakeholder multi-product opportunities that materially impact revenue.

• Guide reps through complex technical and often unstructured opportunities in highly regulated Financial Services environments.

• Help translate AI and API capabilities into business value for Financial Services executives partnering through security compliance and data considerations.

• Partner with Marketing to shape the Financial Services narrative campaigns and events that generate qualified pipelineand provide clear data-driven feedback on what is and isnt working.

• Provide structured prioritized feedback to Product on customer use cases feature gaps and deal blockers to inform roadmap packaging and pricing decisions.

• Partner with Finance on deal structures commercial terms and approvals that balance customer needs with OpenAIs revenue margin and risk objectives.

• Work closely with Technical Success and post-sales teams to co-design solutions align on implementation expectations and ensure smooth handoffs that set customers up for long-term success.

What were looking for

• 15 years of experience in enterprise sales success or GTM leadership with significant time leading at scale.

• Proven track record of driving revenue growth in enterprise segments ($100M businesses).

• Experience leading verticalized sales motions and building go-to-market plays from scratch.

• Strong operational orientation: comfortable with capacity planning pipeline rigor forecasting and data-driven execution.

• Low-ego culture-first leader who builds trust across teams and inspires followership.

• Comfortable with ambiguity and rapid change; thrives in a dynamic startup-like environment inside a global company.

• Public company experience is strongly preferred.
  

You might thrive in this role if you

• Bring an existing network of senior Financial Services executives and can convene the right stakeholders around new AI initiatives.

• Are a coach-first leaderenergized by being in deals with your team giving direct feedback and watching reps level up.

• Have helped build or refine verticalized GTM motions and are excited to codify operating rhythms playbooks and best practices from a relatively early starting point.

• Are comfortable with technical depthyoure not an engineer but you quickly understand AI data and API concepts and can guide your team to do the same.

• Are energized by big goals and ambiguitylarge revenue targets fast hiring evolving products and a rapidly changing market feel like an opportunity not a deterrent.

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.

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