Head of Industries

About the Role

As Head of Industries you will serve as a second-line sales leader responsible for our Financial Services Healthcare and Life Sciences verticals.

You will set the strategy for how we win in regulated industries lead and develop senior leaders across those businesses and partner cross-functionally to ensure OpenAI can scale durable compliant growth in some of the worlds most complex customer environments.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead and develop the senior leaders responsible for Financial Services Healthcare and Life Sciences raising the bar on execution talent and culture across the portfolio.

• Build a high-accountability leadership operating model with strong inspection rhythms talent reviews and coaching mechanisms that scale through frontline and second-line leaders.

• Own the vertical GTM strategy for regulated industries including segmentation account prioritization coverage design and investment allocation.

• Shape how OpenAI lands expands and retains customers in highly regulated markets balancing growth objectives with risk management and long-term platform adoption.

• Establish rigorous forecasting pipeline inspection and business review cadences that create visibility predictability and fast decision-making.

• Drive execution on complex multi-stakeholder deals with senior executives procurement legal security and compliance stakeholders across large enterprises.

• Bring deep pattern recognition in regulated-industry sales motions helping teams navigate governance data sensitivity model risk and implementation complexity.

• Partner closely with product solutions legal policy security and finance teams to remove blockers and design scalable approaches for regulated customers.

• Represent the voice of regulated-industry customers internally influencing product priorities messaging packaging and commercial strategy.

• Partner with marketing and field teams to refine the Financial Services Healthcare and Life Sciences narratives and build repeatable demand-generation motions.

• Help structure commercial frameworks approval paths and resource allocation decisions that align customer needs with OpenAIs growth and risk objectives.

• Ensure strong collaboration across pre-sales and post-sales teams so customers move from evaluation to production with clear ownership and long-term success plans.

What Were Looking For

• 1520 years of experience leading enterprise sales or go-to-market organizations with substantial time in senior leadership roles at scale.

• Demonstrated success owning and scaling large complex regulated-industry businesses ideally across Financial Services Healthcare and/or Life Sciences.

• Strong expertise in regulated industries and a clear point of view on how to sell deploy and expand in environments with high compliance and governance requirements.

• Exceptional operating rigor including business planning forecasting performance management and data-driven decision-making.

• A low-ego high-standards leader who can influence across functions and build trust with executives peers and teams.

• Comfort leading through ambiguity and change while building structure clarity and durable execution in a fast-moving environment.

• Experience leading through multiple layers of management and developing senior leaders is strongly preferred.

Skills/experience

• Non-negotiables:

  • Deep expertise leading teams and businesses in regulated industries with credibility in Financial Services Healthcare and/or Life Sciences.

  • 1520 years of experience in enterprise sales or GTM leadership including meaningful experience managing through multiple layers of leadership.

  • Proven ability to build strategy and operating cadence for complex consultative and compliance-sensitive sales motions.

  • Strong talent leadership with a track record of hiring coaching and elevating senior leaders and building high-performing organizations.

• Strong Preferences:

  • Experience in AI cloud platform or other highly technical product environments.

  • Experience influencing product legal risk or commercial decisions based on customer needs in regulated markets.

  • Experience with consumption-based and platform sales models.

• Coachables/Nice to Have:

  • Direct OpenAI experience is not required if the candidate can quickly build fluency in AI platforms and articulate business value credibly.

  • Experience working across both high-growth and large-scale enterprise environments.

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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