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Sales Development Manager, Enterprise (AMER)

OpenAI Indexed employerSan Francisco
Source-hosted applyChecked 5h ago$261K–$305K/yrFull-Time
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Workplace

hybrid

Employment

Full-Time

Published

May 21, 2026

Closes

No date supplied

The role

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 becomes executive engagement and OpenAI’s enterprise relationships begin. ABOUT THE ROLE We are hiring a Sales Development Manager, AMER to lead a team of SDRs supporting our Large Enterprise business across North America. Reporting into Sales Development leadership, this role will be responsible for coaching and developing a high-performing team focused on generating qualified pipeline and creating strategic enterprise opportunities. This is a foundational front-line leadership role within OpenAI’s enterprise GTM organization. You will help define how we engage prospective customers, convert product and developer interest into enterprise conversations, and scale repeatable outbound and inbound motions across some of the world’s largest organizations. You will partner closely with Sales, Marketing, Solutions Engineering, Partnerships, and Strategy & Operations to drive pipeline generation and help shape the future of OpenAI’s enterprise growth engine. IN THIS ROLE, YOU WILL: - Lead, coach, and develop a team of SDRs supporting Large Enterprise, Verticals, and Strategic Accounts across AMER - Drive high-quality pipeline generation through outbound prospecting, inbound qualification, account-based motions, and product-led signals - Establish strong operational rigor around activity metrics

Requirements

Department: Go To Market; Team: Go To Market