Sales Director

About Anthropic Anthropic’s mission is to create reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems. We want AI to be safe and beneficial for our users and for society as a whole. Our team is a quickly growing group of committed researchers, engineers, policy experts, and business leaders working together to build beneficial AI systems. About the role In this role, you'll lead a team of Account Executives driving the adoption of safe, frontier AI with top enterprises across Korea. This role is critical to Anthropic's APAC expansion. You'll leverage your leadership expertise to propel revenue growth while developing a high-performing team. Working closely with Applied AI Engineering, Product, GTM, and Marketing teams, you'll help enterprise customers deploy AI solutions and refine our market positioning for Korea. The ideal candidate will have a deep understanding of Korean business culture, a passion for developing people, and the ability to navigate Korea's relationship-driven, conglomerate-centric enterprise sales environment. Key responsibilities Build and lead a high-performing team of Account Executives, providing coaching, mentorship, and guidance to drive team success Develop and implement sales strategies tailored to enterprise procurement cycles and budgeting processes to meet and exceed team revenue quotas Create and maintain accurate forecasts, pipeline management, and reporting while ensuring data integrity in CRM systems Partner with Enablement to develop training programs and resources that accelerate AE ramp time and effectiveness, with focus on Korean enterprise buying cycles and decision-making processes Work closely with Applied AI Engineering teams to demonstrate technical capabilities pre-sales and optimize solutions post-sales Enable your team to have credible technical conversations about AI applications while maintaining appropriate guardrails Build strong partnerships across the organization to drive strategic initiatives Identify and execute

About the Team The GTM Partnerships team is responsible for building a best in class, partner ecosystem in Korea 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 Korea - owning the journey from contract signature to full-scale execution. This role will own all aspects of the partner lifecycle in Korea, 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 Seoul, South Korea. 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 & new prospect partners in Korea, acting as the single point of contact across enablement, solutioning, and GTM execution. Work with OpenAI business and cross functional teams to accelerate partner-sourced and/or /influenced sales opportunities with higher win-rate 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.

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 APAC 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 Seoul, South Korea and we operate in a hybrid model of 3 days in the office. 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

SLSQ427R684 Databricks operates at the leading edge of the Data and AI space with a mission to help companies solve the world's toughest problems. We are seeking an experienced strategic sales leader to manage and grow our Seoul-based Business Development team and help us expand our South Korean business. Reporting to the Director, Sales Development, you will be an important contributor to our sales leadership team, leading recruiting, pipeline generation/consumption growth strategy, and constructive coaching for our Business Development team members. You will have experience driving pipeline generation, leading sales development teams, and working with sales and marketing teams. The impact you will have: Take the primary leadership role in building and scaling an outstanding team Support and shape the strategy for pipeline generation within KR Create innovative strategies to accelerate new customer acquisition and consumption growth Manage your team's pipeline target and be active in coaching team members to be successful Work with cross-functional regional leaders to maximize the contribution of the team Analyze team performance and funnel data to identify and fix inefficiencies What we look for: Minimum 2-3 years of experience as a Sales Development manager with consistent overachievement against quota Experience in a quota-carrying, end-to-end sales role with consistent overachievement against quota Experience growing a sales development team by recruiting and developing BDRs focused on giving people the training and support that they need to succeed Expertise in using Salesforce and Outreach.io, additional experience with AI tools will be advantageous Proficiency in Native Korean and business-level English proficiency required. The role involves regular communication with regional and global stakeholders in English, including meetings, reporting, and written communication. English proficiency may be assessed through the interview process or equivalent evi

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 Seoul, South Korea. 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'll: Manage a ~dozen key accounts, developing and executing strategies for a comprehensive account plan Lead our enterprise prospects’ journeys from consideration to successful deployment Partner with solutions and research engineering to build and execute complex customer programs and projects Own a consumption revenue target Manage consumption 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 operations, fina

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 Seoul, South Korea. 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'll: Manage a small number of key accounts, developing and executing strategies for a comprehensive account plan Lead our prospects’ journeys from consideration to successful deployment Partner with solutions and research engineering to build and execute complex customer programs and projects Own a consumption revenue target Manage consumption 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 operations, financ