About the Team The GTM Partnerships team is responsible for building a best in class, partner ecosystem in Australia that makes our customers successful, supports the company's mission of reaching AGI, and impacts the revenue growth of the company. About the Role We are hiring a partner director to operationalize, activate, and manage strategic partner relationships in Australia - owning the journey from contract signature to full-scale execution. This role will own all aspects of the partner lifecycle in Australia, from selecting the appropriate potential partners, assessing their alignment with our requirements, onboarding newly signed partners, driving enablement, coordinating joint solution development, and ensuring commercial activation. You will be the connective tissue between OpenAI and the partner’s delivery, technical, and sales organizations to ensure the partnership delivers results. This role will report to the APAC Partnerships Lead in Singapore, and this role will be based in Sydney, Australia. We use a hybrid work model of 3 days in the office per week and offer relocation assistance to new employees. In this role you will: Own the day-to-day relationship with all signed services partners in Australia, acting as the single point of contact across enablement, solutioning, and GTM execution. Drive and manage onboarding across workstreams including sales training, technical enablement, security and provisioning, and support operations. Ensure partner readiness to deploy and resell OpenAI solutions, through shared project plans, milestone tracking, and joint QBRs. Orchestrate co-developed solutions by collaborating with partners to define use cases, create demo assets, and localize technical documentation. Monitor partner performance , flag risks early, and drive structured remediation or acceleration plans as needed. Coordinate across OpenAI teams including Sales, Solution Engineering, Enablement, Operations, Customer Success, and Marketing to ensure pa
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About the team OpenAI’s Forward Deployed Engineering team partners with customers to turn research breakthroughs into production systems. We operate at the intersection of customer delivery and core platform development. About the role Forward Deployed Engineers (FDEs) lead complex end-to-end deployments of frontier models in production alongside our most strategic customers. You will own discovery, technical scoping, system design, build, and production rollout, partnering directly with customer engineering and domain teams. You will measure success through production adoption, measurable workflow impact, and eval-driven feedback that changes product and model roadmaps. You’ll work closely with our Product, Research, Partnerships, GRC, Security, and GTM teams. This role is based in Sydney. We use a hybrid work model of 3 days in the office per week. We offer relocation assistance. Travel up to 50% is required. In this role you will Own technical delivery across multiple deployments from first prototype to stable production. Build full-stack systems that deliver customer value and sharpen how we learn. Embed closely with customer teams, understand their needs, and guide adoption of what you build. Scope work, sequence delivery, and remove blockers early. Make trade-offs between scope, speed, and quality; adjust plans to protect delivery. Contribute directly in the code when progress or clarity depends on it. Codify working patterns into tools, playbooks, or building blocks that others can use. Share field feedback that helps Research and Product understand where the models succeed and where they can improve. Keep teams moving through clarity and follow-through. You might thrive in this role if you Bring 5+ years of engineering or technical deployment experience that includes customer-facing work. Have scoped and delivered complex systems in fast-moving or ambiguous environments. Write and review production-grade code across frontend and backend using Python, JavaScr
Airbnb was born in 2007 when two hosts welcomed three guests to their San Francisco home, and has since grown to over 5 million hosts who have welcomed over 2 billion guest arrivals in almost every country across the globe. Every day, hosts offer unique stays and experiences that make it possible for guests to connect with communities in a more authentic way. The Community You Will Join: The Airbnb Hotels is a fast-growing business which will see you leading Airbnb’s expansion into the hotel sector in the region. Operating with an entrepreneurial spirit within the Australian & New Zealand team, this team combines the simplicity, product excellence, and guest-centered ethos that define Airbnb. This team’s mission is to grow and expand our the smoothest, most intuitive hotel booking experience for guests; while providing hotels an opportunity to drive high-quality incremental bookings so they can focus on delivering the best hospitality. The ultimate aim is to help more people discover high-quality hotels, creating value for guests and our hotel partners. The Difference You Will Make: As a Senior Market Manager, your role will entail ensuring the health and expansion of our supply within but not limited to your assigned territory. This will involve both acquiring high-quality hotel inventory and managing Hotels partners. Your focus will be to enhance Airbnb's market presence in your designated region through collaboration with other teams, leveraging your expertise on the local market. With a deep understanding of Airbnb's mission and values, you will oversee all aspects of supply acquisition and market success. This includes developing acquisition strategies, generating and converting Hotel leads, deal management and fostering relationships with strategic partners, including the creation of new partnerships. You will also be tasked with developing and refining scalable, localised supply management strategies for both established, competitive mar
Secure Every Identity, from AI to Human Identity is the key to unlocking the potential of AI. Okta secures AI by building the trusted, neutral infrastructure that enables organizations to safely embrace this new era. This work requires a relentless drive to solve complex challenges with real-world stakes. We are looking for builders and owners who operate with speed and urgency and execute with excellence. This is an opportunity to do career-defining work. We're all in on this mission. If you are too, let's talk. Okta is The World’s Identity Company. We free everyone to safely use any technology—anywhere, on any device or app. Our Workforce and Customer Identity Clouds enable secure yet flexible access, authentication, and automation that transforms how people move through the digital world, putting Identity at the heart of business security and growth. At Okta, we celebrate a variety of perspectives and experiences. We aren’t looking for someone who simply checks boxes; we’re looking for lifelong learners and "owners" who want to build the future of Identity. Join us. Build a world where Identity belongs to you. The Opportunity: Your Career-Defining Moment The Sales Strategy & Operations team is the engine room of Okta’s growth. We don't just report on the business; we architect it. As a Sales Strategy and Operations Manager for the ANZ region , you will act as a strategic co-pilot to Sales Leadership. This role will also give exposure to strategic initiatives across APJ and Global Sales Operations. This isn't a "back-office" role. This is a high-visibility position for a high-potential talent who wants to own the "How" and "Why" behind our go-to-market execution. Joining us in a time of rapid expansion across APJ, you will leverage the next frontier of technology to redefine what "operational excellence" looks like in the SaaS era. How You Will Make an Impact 1. Strategic Partnership & Sales Advocacy Clear the Path: Partner directly with ANZ Sales Le
Who we are About Stripe Stripe is a financial infrastructure platform for businesses. Millions of companies, from the world’s largest enterprises to the most ambitious startups, use Stripe to accept payments, grow revenue, and accelerate new business opportunities. Our mission is to increase the gross domestic product of the internet. About the team The Platform Sales team works with business-to-business software platforms to help them facilitate payments for their customers using Stripe Connect. Software platforms are businesses that build payments and financial services into their products. Platforms that use Stripe include Shopify, Xero, me&u, and Ignition. What you’ll do As an Account Executive on the Platforms team, focused on existing business, you will use sales and product expertise to drive growth with existing Stripe users. You will help customers understand how Stripe’s online commerce infrastructure can make payments a competitive advantage for their businesses. These customers include innovative, fast-growing software platforms. Responsibilities Manage and grow a named account list. Develop account plans to win and expand business with upper middle market and enterprise companies. Build and maintain relationships with C-level executives, and coordinate the right executive touchpoints. Contribute to Stripe’s platform partnership strategy, repeatable processes, and scaled engagement models. Develop outbound strategies to create and nurture opportunities. Own the full sales cycle, from lead generation through close, for upper middle market and enterprise companies. Develop relationships with executive stakeholders at new and existing clients. Partner with leaders across Engineering, Product, and Finance to lead complex product workshops and financial analyses. Lead and contribute to team projects that develop and refine the sales process. Partner with Product and Engineering teams to inform product strategy. Who you are You are a skilled salesperson an
Who We Are Notion is the collaborative AI workspace where teams and agents think together . We're building one place where your knowledge, projects, meetings, and AI tools live side by side, so work is faster, clearer, and less fragmented. Millions of individuals, small teams, and large companies run their work on Notion. Notinos (our employees) are customer zero in bringing this future of work to life. We care about craft, building things that last, and the belief that great work is still fundamentally human. Our goal isn’t to ship the next feature. Each and every team of Notinos is working to set the standard for how humans work together in the AI era. From building a business’s system of record to making and managing AI agents to automating away the busy work, we care deeply about giving our customers more time for their life’s work. About The Role You’ll own APAC campaigns and content strategy and execution to drive awareness, engagement, and qualified pipeline. You will bring global campaigns and product launches into APAC by working with the local APAC marketing team to bring these campaigns to life. As well as bringing global campaigns to APAC, you will also create new campaigns from scratch and help to scale these out globally if successful in APAC. These are full integrated campaigns where you own everything from strategy, channel mix, content, messaging and execution (in-partnership with the local APAC marketing team). This role is based in Sydney and will report to the APAC Head of Marketing, partnering closely with APAC regional and global marketing teams. In-person collaboration is essential to Notion's culture. We require all team members to work from our offices on Mondays and Thursdays, our designated Anchor Days. Certain teams or positions may require additional in-office workdays. What You'll Achieve Lead APAC integrated campaigns from brief to launch to retro: positioning, messaging, channel plan, asset plan, and timeline management across priorit
From A$1M/yr
About the team OpenAI’s mission is to build safe artificial general intelligence (AGI) which benefits all of humanity. This long-term undertaking brings the world’s best scientists, engineers, and business professionals into one lab together to accomplish this. In pursuit of this mission, our Go To Market (GTM) team is responsible for helping customers learn how to leverage and deploy our highly capable AI products across their business. The team is made of Sales, Solutions, Support, Marketing, and Partnership professionals that work together to create valuable solutions that will help bring AI to as many users as possible. About the role Our ChatGPT Enterprise Sales team has a unique mission to help customers understand the deep impact that highly capable AI models can bring to their business and users. This role is a mixture of technical understanding, vision, partnership, and value-driven strategy. Our EDU Account Director will specialize in working with education institutions and companies as they adopt OpenAI’s products. For example, this individual will focus on helping support universities K-12 institutions as they evaluate and adopt ChatGPT Enterprise for their administrators, faculty and students. You’ll be a key driver of opportunities through the entire sales cycle, from pipeline generation to closure. You’ll represent OpenAI as a thought leader in AI, and partner with researchers, engineers, and solution strategists to help customers evolve their AI journeys. ChatGPT Enterprise (launched Aug’23) is being rapidly adopted by companies around the world, and we’re looking for tenured Account Directors to join our team and continue to bring both new customers onto the product, and expand existing ones. This role is based in Sydney. We use a hybrid work model of 3 days in the office per week. In this role, you'll: Lead our enterprise prospects’ journeys from consideration to purchase. Partner with Account Associates, Solutions Engineering and Customer Success
About the team OpenAI’s mission is to build safe artificial general intelligence (AGI) which benefits all of humanity. This long-term undertaking brings the world’s best scientists, engineers, and business professionals into one lab together to accomplish this. In pursuit of this mission, our Go To Market (GTM) team is responsible for helping customers learn how to leverage and deploy our highly capable AI products across their business. The team is made of Sales, Solutions, Support, Marketing, and Partnership professionals that work together to create valuable solutions that will help bring AI to as many users as possible. About the role This role is part of our ANZ Mid-Market team which will own both named account pursuits and executing programmatic sales via OpenAI partners. You’ll be a key driver of writing the playbook for Mid-Market in APAC as an AI Native Sales team. You’ll work with researchers, engineers, and solution strategists to help customers evolve their industry with AI. This role is based in Sydney. In this role, you'll: Manage a portfolio of accounts, developing and executing strategies for a comprehensive regional go to market plan Win lighthouse accounts through outbound sales outreach Partner with solutions and research engineering to build and execute complex customer programs and projects Own a consumption revenue target Manage consumption revenue forecasts Support the recruitment and onboarding of other teammates Support the development of company culture We're seeking someone with experience including: 7+ years of direct selling experience in Data and AI or Cloud Designing and executing complex go to market strategies Orchestrating programmatic sales motions with partners Experience operating in fast paced, high growth environments Working directly with c-level executives Leading high-visibility customer events (CAB, conferences, product launches, etc.) Hands on experience with AI tools You might thrive in this role if you: Are customer-cent
At Vanta, our mission is to help businesses earn and prove trust. We believe that security should be monitored and verified continuously, and we empower companies to practice better security and prove it with ease. Vanta has a kind and talented team, and while some have prior security experience, many have been successful at Vanta without it. We’re looking for a motivated Account Manager to take ownership of the expansion and retention of Vanta’s APAC customers by developing and maintaining strong relationships with our customers. You will serve as the primary point of contact for all post-sale commercial conversations, including mid-cycle upsells and renewals. As a trusted advisor to the customer, you will deeply understand their business needs and align Vanta’s solutions with their objectives to help mature our customers’ compliance and security program. The goal of this team is to achieve overall net revenue expansion of the Vanta customer base, as measured by Net Revenue Retention with a particular focus on expansion. They will ensure customer’s security and compliance goals are aligned to their company growth needs and with Vanta’s solutions. This role is Sydney, Australia based and has a hybrid in office requirement. What you’ll do as an Account Manager - APAC at Vanta: Develop and maintain strong relationships with assigned accounts, acting as a trusted advisor and strategic partner. Develop a deep understanding of Vanta’s current product offerings and take initiative to learn Vanta’s product roadmap to speak confidently when addressing customers. Maintain strong partnerships and alignment with CSMs to understand customer health, ensure close strategic collaboration and execute harmonious communication to accounts. Collaborate on account plans that identify new opportunities for expansion with current customers to increase their usage of Vanta’s platform via new frameworks, security tools, etc. Manage the entire sales cycle of any expansion or renewal opportu
About the team OpenAI’s mission is to ensure artificial general intelligence (AGI) benefits all of humanity. This long-term undertaking brings the world’s best scientists, engineers, and business professionals into one organization. In pursuit of this mission, our Go-To-Market (GTM) team is responsible for helping customers learn how to leverage and deploy our highly capable AI products across their business. The team includes Sales, Solutions, Support, Marketing, and Partnerships professionals who work together to create valuable solutions that help bring AI to as many users as possible. About the role OpenAI is seeking a highly motivated and experienced Account Director to join our Startup Go-To-Market team. You will play a critical role in owning relationships with top startup customers and supporting them in successfully building on the OpenAI platform. Many of the most disruptive and category-defining AI applications are being created by startups. The Startup Go-To-Market team's mission is to help startups harness the power of OpenAI’s technology to drive these advances. You will support startups in building effectively with OpenAI’s APIs, SDKs, and applications while providing access to OpenAI’s technical expertise and networks to help accelerate their progress. This role is a mixture of technical understanding, vision, partnership, and strategy. You’ll be responsible for serving as the primary relationship owner for a range of strategically important startup customers. You’ll also work cross-functionally with product, research, engineering, support, and technical solutions teams to help customers get the most out of our models. This role will be based in Sydney . In this role, you'll: Manage a portfolio of startup accounts, developing and executing strategies for comprehensive account management. Partner with AI Deployment Engineers to drive successful technical engagements with startups. Own consumption and contracted revenue targets while managing revenue f
About the Team OpenAI’s mission is to build safe artificial general intelligence (AGI) which benefits all of humanity. This long-term undertaking brings the world’s best scientists, engineers, and business professionals into one lab together to accomplish this. In pursuit of this mission, our Go To Market (GTM) team is responsible for helping customers learn how to leverage and deploy our highly capable AI products across their business. The team is made of Sales, Solutions, Support, Marketing, and Partnership professionals that work together to create valuable solutions that will help bring AI to as many users as possible. About the Role Our Sales team has a unique mission to help customers understand the deep impact that highly capable AI models can bring to their business and users. This role is a mixture of technical understanding, vision, partnership, and value-driven strategy. You’ll be a key driver of opportunities through the entire sales cycle, from pipeline generation to closure. You’ll work with researchers, engineers, and solution strategists to help customers evolve their industry with AI. This role is based in Sydney, Australia. We use a hybrid work model of 3 days in the office per week and offer relocation assistance to new employees. In this role, you will: Manage a portfolio of customer accounts, developing and executing strategies for a comprehensive account plan. Support your customer accounts from initial engagement to successful deployment and through to renewal. Partner with solutions and research engineering to build and execute complex customer programs and projects. Own a revenue target. Manage revenue forecasts. Analyze key account metrics to create reports and provide insights to internal and external stakeholders. Closely monitor the industry landscape (people, competitors, partners, etc.) to contribute to product roadmap and other corporate strategies. Collaborate with solutions, marketing, communications, business operations, people op
From $50K/yr
Our Enterprise Sales team works with a best-of-breed product that solves real problems for our customers. Sellers follow a well-defined methodology that helps them identify the customer's unique needs and clearly convey the value of the Datadog product. Whether you're looking to learn from the best or be the best, the Datadog sales team is dedicated to furthering personal development and team success. We are searching for an experienced Sales Executive that has a real passion for technology and can deliver on bold revenue targets. As we continue to enter into bigger markets, and formalize our support for the Public Sector enterprise segment, this division within Datadog will blaze the path for organizational growth. This is a lucrative opportunity to break into new State, Local, and Education accounts within a rich territory, as well work with accounts who are in a hybrid state and transitioning to the cloud. At Datadog, we place value in our office culture - the relationships and collaboration it builds and the creativity it brings to the table. We operate as a hybrid workplace to ensure our Datadogs can create a work-life harmony that best fits them. What You’ll Do: Prospect into State, Local, and Education organizations while running an efficient sales process Maintain, build and own specific relationship maps for your territory including existing relationships and aspirational contacts Develop a deep comprehension of customer's business Negotiate favorable pricing and business terms with SLED enterprises by selling value and ROI Handle existing customer expectations while expanding reach and depth into assigned territory Demonstrate resourcefulness when faced with challenges that defy easy solution Have intuitive sense of necessary steps to close business and gain customer validation Identify robust set of value drivers behind all opportunities Ensure high forecasting accuracy and consistency Who You Are: Someone with 5+ years closing experience (mix
Secure Every Identity, from AI to Human Identity is the key to unlocking the potential of AI. Okta secures AI by building the trusted, neutral infrastructure that enables organizations to safely embrace this new era. This work requires a relentless drive to solve complex challenges with real-world stakes. We are looking for builders and owners who operate with speed and urgency and execute with excellence. This is an opportunity to do career-defining work. We're all in on this mission. If you are too, let's talk. The Okta Vision Okta’s vision is to enable anyone to safely use any technology by providing a secure, highly available, enterprise-grade identity platform. Our technology secures billions of workforce logins each year. At Okta, we empower our Account Executives from day one with a world-class onboarding experience, ongoing development, and a culture of support and collaboration. The Opportunity: Strategic Account Executive We are looking for a high-performing, self-motivated Account Executive with a passion for cybersecurity and helping organisations protect against evolving identity threats. As AI adoption accelerates, identity is becoming even more critical. Organisations now need to secure not only employees and customers, but also non-human identities such as service accounts, automation tools, API keys, and AI agents. Okta helps customers bring these identities into a unified Identity Security Fabric, enabling greater visibility, governance, and secure access across the full identity lifecycle. At Okta, you’ll join a company helping define the future of identity security in an AI-driven world, supported by strong onboarding, ongoing development, and a culture of collaboration from day one. As an Strategic Account Executive at Okta, you will work closely with C-suite decision-makers to demonstrate how our platform drives secure, seamless access across their workforce. Your focus will be on both new business acquisition and expansion within our existing
For over 20 years, Smartsheet has empowered teams to manage work seamlessly and scale solutions smarter. Now, in our most ambitious chapter yet, we are uniting human teams with AI agents. By orchestrating the work agents do best, automating manual tasks and uncovering insights at scale, we create the space for people to focus on what truly matters: judgment, creativity, and big thinking. That is magic at work, and it’s what we show up for every day. Smartsheet is seeking an experienced enterprise account executive to join our enterprise team, driving revenue from Asia’s largest organisations. The ideal candidate will have a history of driving complex enterprise sales cycles, multi threading and senior stakeholder engagement. This is Smartsheet’s most senior frontline sales role in the Asia region and a history of performing with large enterprise accounts is a must. This position is a 12 month fixed term contract, based in Sydney and reports to the Director for Asia Sales. This role has a team go to market approach and has a designated enterprise sales rep driving account activity plus designated solution engineer and customer success manager assisting with account engagement and solution designs. You Will: Strategically engage senior customer stakeholders with a current Smartsheet footprint and drive additional revenue through new solution upsells. Land and expand with new Logos for Smartsheet by selling our full suite of products and services Grow account footprint and revenue to an ultimate goal of a full enterprise wide contract agreement. Pipeline generation and end-to-end sales cycle management with companies above 5000 employee size using the MEDDICC sales framework. Utilise multithreading and consistent lead outreach, as appropriate, within both new logos and existing customers to drive business growth Conduct consultative and cross-functional discovery calls and act as a Consultant to the Customer to identify their needs and align customer
Figma is growing our team of passionate creatives and builders on a mission to make design accessible to all. Figma’s platform helps teams bring ideas to life—whether you're brainstorming, creating a prototype, translating designs into code, or iterating with AI. From idea to product, Figma empowers teams to streamline workflows, move faster, and work together in real time from anywhere in the world. If you're excited to shape the future of design and collaboration, join us! We are looking for a Strategic Account Executive who will play a critical role driving sales and maximizing expansion opportunities with a defined list of top-tier Enterprise customers. You will be responsible for targeting, building and nurturing positive relationships with key C-level decision-makers, understanding complex business needs, and delivering innovative solutions across our product suite. This is an opportunity to accelerate your career, learn from leading sellers in the industry and build an incredible network of cross functional partners throughout Figma. This role will be based out of either Sydney or Melbourne, Australia. What you'll do at Figma: Manage a defined list of named strategic accounts to consistently meet or exceed quarterly and annual sales targets Apply effective discovery and value-selling techniques to build and strengthen C-level relationships for every account in your book Align with executives on business challenges and gain sponsorship for enterprise wide deployments for a suite of products, identifying where Figma’s roadmap and innovations fit in the long term Conduct thorough analysis to create strategic account plans that outline company priorities and initiatives, multi-threading at at senior level to build on expansion opportunities Co-create with cross-functional partners to expertly position Figma, drive deals forward and ensure customer success Leverage opportunities to advance executive level relationships through in-person meetings and networking opp
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