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About the Role OpenAI is seeking a senior, hands-on commercial leader and builder to establish and scale Deal Strategy across APAC while personally shaping and executing some of our most complex and high-impact commercial opportunities. As AI becomes increasingly important to how organizations operate, the ability to translate sophisticated products and commercial structures into clear, compelling customer narratives is a strategic advantage. This is a builder role that will begin as a high-impact individual contributor. The successful candidate will establish the APAC Deal Strategy motion hands-on with the potential over time to build and lead a broader regional team. In this role, you will serve as the APAC Deal Strategy leader and an embedded strategic partner to account teams, with a particular focus on high-value, complex, and first-of-kind deals. You will work directly with sellers and cross-functional partners to personally lead the overall deal strategy, structuring, value narrative, negotiations, and business cases that bring business terms to contractual closure. You will also translate insights and patterns from individual deals into a regional operating model, practical frameworks, tools, and resources that improve the quality, consistency, and scalability of deal execution across the field. This role partners closely with Sales, Pricing, Deal Desk, Strategy, Revenue Operations, Finance, Product, and Legal to help OpenAI move quickly, strengthen proposal quality, and navigate complex commercial opportunities effectively. In this role, you will: Partner directly with APAC account teams on complex, high-value, and strategic opportunities, from initial deal strategy through customer proposal, negotiation, and deal closure. Develop deal strategies that bring together customer priorities, commercial considerations, competitive positioning, and OpenAI’s broader business objectives. Create executive- and CFO-ready proposals, ROI analyses, value narratives, and

Senior Partner Program Manager - Strategic Initiatives Remote (US) or New York, New York, USA We're looking for an experienced Senior Partner Program Manager to design, launch, and scale strategic initiatives across Datadog's Channels & Alliances organization. In this role, you'll identify opportunities where targeted partner programs can accelerate business outcomes beyond Datadog's standard partner framework and lead those initiatives from concept to execution. This includes driving growth in a specific region, accelerating adoption of a new product, enabling a strategic collaboration with a partner, or creating a new referral or incentive motion. You'll be responsible for turning partner business opportunities into scalable programs. You'll work closely with partner leaders and cross-functional stakeholders to evaluate opportunities, align teams, execute, and continuously iterate based on performance. This is a highly visible role that requires strategic thinking, strong execution skills, and the ability to influence across a complex organization. This is an opportunity to join a high-growth cloud software company and help shape the future of Datadog's partner ecosystem. 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 Identify opportunities to accelerate partner-driven growth through targeted programs and initiatives that complement Datadog's standard partner framework Design, launch, and scale custom partner programs that support strategic business priorities, including regional growth initiatives, new product adoption, partner incentives, referral motions, and strategic collaboration agreements Partner with stakeholders across Channels & Alliances, Sales, Deal Desk, Legal, Finance, Operations, Marketing, Product, and Enablement teams to bring p

About the Team OpenAI Finance helps ensure the organization is set up for success in pursuit of its mission of ensuring that artificial general intelligence benefits all of humanity. Within Finance, the Technical Revenue team partners with Product, Strategic Partnerships, Business Development, Growth, Legal, Deal Desk, GTM, Strategic Finance, Revenue Accounting, and Finance Systems to enable scalable, audit-ready monetization. We advise on commercial and contract design, establish defensible accounting positions under ASC 606, and translate those conclusions into repeatable processes, systems, controls, and reporting. About the Role We’re looking for a Senior Manager of Revenue Accounting to lead revenue strategy and technical accounting for OpenAI’s strategic commercial deals. Reporting to the Head of Technical Revenue, you will serve as the primary revenue advisor for large, bespoke, and non-standard deals outside OpenAI’s standard product and service offerings. Your portfolio may include strategic collaborations, cloud marketplaces, platform and distribution deals, licensing and revenue-share models, joint go-to-market initiatives, research collaborations, and other emerging commercial structures. You will engage early in the deal lifecycle to help shape commercially viable, accounting-compliant, and operationally scalable outcomes. You will establish the accounting posture, identify required contract and product terms, define reporting and control requirements, and ensure that deal economics, billing flows, and revenue recognition remain aligned as the business evolves. This role requires strong technical accounting judgment, commercial fluency, executive communication, and the ability to create clarity and ownership in areas where precedent may not yet exist. This role is based in San Francisco, CA. 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 technical revenue accounti

About the Team OpenAI Finance helps ensure the organization is set up for success in pursuit of its mission of ensuring that artificial general intelligence benefits all of humanity. Within Finance, the Technical Revenue team partners with Product, Strategic Partnerships, Business Development, Growth, Legal, Deal Desk, GTM, Strategic Finance, Revenue Accounting, and Finance Systems to enable scalable, audit-ready monetization. We advise on commercial and contract design, establish defensible accounting positions under ASC 606, and translate those conclusions into repeatable processes, systems, controls, and reporting. About the Role We’re looking for a Senior Manager of Revenue Recognition to lead revenue strategy and technical accounting for OpenAI’s strategic commercial deals. Reporting to the Head of Technical Revenue, you will serve as the primary revenue advisor for large, bespoke, and non-standard deals outside OpenAI’s standard product and service offerings. Your portfolio may include strategic collaborations, cloud marketplaces, platform and distribution deals, licensing and revenue-share models, joint go-to-market initiatives, research collaborations, and other emerging commercial structures. You will engage early in the deal lifecycle to help shape commercially viable, accounting-compliant, and operationally scalable outcomes. You will establish the accounting posture, identify required contract and product terms, define reporting and control requirements, and ensure that deal economics, billing flows, and revenue recognition remain aligned as the business evolves. This role requires strong technical accounting judgment, commercial fluency, executive communication, and the ability to create clarity and ownership in areas where precedent may not yet exist. This role is based in San Francisco, CA. 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 technical revenue account

About the Team OpenAI Finance helps ensure the organization is set up for success in pursuit of its mission of ensuring that artificial general intelligence benefits all of humanity. Within Finance, the Revenue Accounting, Technical team partners with Product, Strategic Partnerships, Business Development, Growth, Legal, Deal Desk, GTM, Strategic Finance, Revenue Accounting, and Finance Systems to enable scalable, operationally sound monetization. We advise on commercial and contract design, establish clear accounting positions under ASC 606, and translate those conclusions into repeatable processes, systems, controls, and reporting. About the Role We’re looking for a Manager of Revenue Accounting, Technical to drive the end-to-end technical revenue and operational workstream for OpenAI’s strategic commercial deals—from early structuring and deal-desk review through contracting, launch, and ongoing governance. Reporting to the Head of Revenue Accounting, Technical, you will serve as a key revenue advisor for complex and non-standard strategic deals, translating commercial objectives into revenue models that are economically sound, accounting-compliant, and operationally executable. You will partner with senior team members on the most novel or high-risk matters across strategic collaborations, cloud marketplaces, platform and distribution deals, licensing and revenue-share models, joint go-to-market initiatives, research collaborations, and other emerging commercial structures. You will engage from the earliest stages of a deal to shape economics, pricing, commercial terms, contract language, and product design; define the supporting data, billing, settlement, reporting, systems, controls, and revenue-recognition model; and drive cross-functional readiness through launch. After launch, you will help govern amendments, monitor whether the model is operating as intended, resolve execution issues, and evolve the approach as the partnership or business model changes. Thi

About The Team OpenAI Finance is responsible for ensuring the organization is set up for success in pursuit of its mission. The Technical Accounting team plays a crucial role in helping OpenAI navigate complex, judgmental, and rapidly evolving accounting matters with rigor and clarity. We aim to bring both technical excellence and strong business partnership to some of the most novel accounting questions in the industry. About The Role OpenAI seeks a Director, Technical Accounting, Revenue & Strategic Partnerships to set the technical revenue accounting strategy for the company's largest, most complex, and highest-risk commercial arrangements. This leader will personally assess novel fact patterns, establish and defend the accounting position, and shape deal structures before execution across enterprise contracts, strategic partnerships, API and consumption-based offerings, credits and incentives, revenue share, multi-party arrangements, and emerging product monetization models. This role will be the senior technical accounting partner to Revenue Accounting, Sales, Product, Legal, Tax, Strategic Finance, Business Development, Deal Desk, Billing, Financial Reporting, Internal Controls, and external auditors. The core mandate is technical judgment: independently synthesize the full contractual and economic substance, identify alternatives and second-order implications, resolve ambiguity under ASC 606 and related U.S. GAAP, and communicate a clear recommendation to executives and auditors. Operational know-how is essential to translate conclusions into billing, close, disclosures, systems, and controls, but process ownership is not the center of the role. In This Role, You Will Partner closely with Revenue Accounting, Sales, Product, Legal, Tax, Strategic Finance, Business Development, Deal Desk, Billing, Financial Reporting, and external auditors. Identify non-standard revenue arrangements early and evaluate them under ASC 606. Advise on thoughtful deal structurin

We are looking for a strategic Business Process Manager to architect the agentic transformation of our GTM tech stack. The GTM Ops, Strategy, Field Readiness, and Sales Development team at Asana enables growth, efficiency, and performance at scale through the strategic management of revenue operations, systems, strategy + analytics, and enablement. In this role, you will act as a thought partner to business stakeholders, a designer of future-state workflows, and the connective tissue between the business and Enterprise Technology (ET). You will own our end-user CPQ experience, drive our agentic quoting capability, and solve complex system dependencies across the broader GTM ecosystem to help Asana scale. This role is based in our San Francisco office with an office-centric hybrid schedule. The standard in-office days are Monday, Tuesday, and Thursday. Most Asanas have the option to work from home on Wednesdays. Working from home on Fridays depends on the type of work you do and the teams with which you partner. If you're interviewing for this role, your recruiter will share more about the in-office requirements. What you’ll achieve Partner as a key cross-functional thought leader with Sales, RevStrat, ET, Deal Desk, and Finance to design scalable, AI-ready workflows that accommodate evolving GTM motions. Own the strategy, requirements gathering, and adoption health of our CPQ platform and agentic quoting capabilities. Scope, prioritize, and manage enhancements across the Salesforce Opportunity object and broader GTM stack to maximize data integrity and cross-functional alignment. Execute end-to-end UAT by authoring test scenarios, managing edge cases, and establishing a reusable UAT framework for future releases. Resolve handoff failures across system integration points to optimize downstream operations across Deal Desk, Provisioning, Order Management, and Billing. Deliver transparent communication and regular updates regarding project timelines, success metrics, an

We're transforming the grocery industry At Instacart, we invite the world to share love through food because we believe everyone should have access to the food they love and more time to enjoy it together. Where others see a simple need for grocery delivery, we see exciting complexity and endless opportunity to serve the varied needs of our community. We work to deliver an essential service that customers rely on to get their groceries and household goods, while also offering safe and flexible earnings opportunities to Instacart Personal Shoppers. Instacart has become a lifeline for millions of people, and we’re building the team to help push our shopping cart forward. If you’re ready to do the best work of your life, come join our table. Instacart is a Flex First team There’s no one-size fits all approach to how we do our best work. Our employees have the flexibility to choose where they do their best work—whether it’s from home, an office, or your favorite coffee shop—while staying connected and building community through regular in-person events. Learn more about our flexible approach to where we work. Overview Instacart’s Strategic Finance team partners closely with leaders across the business to drive clarity, rigor, and results. Within this group, the Retailer Pod supports our retailer partnerships by shaping deal strategy, building robust financial models, and guiding decisions that help Instacart and our partners grow together. We are seeking a Senior Financial Analyst to accelerate retailer deal flow and portfolio performance. You will join a high-impact, collaborative pod within Strategic Finance, working daily with Retail Partnerships, Deal Desk, Legal, Revenue Operations, Data Science, and Accounting. In this role, you’ll own end-to-end financial analysis for complex commercial deals, build scalable forecasting frameworks, and present actionable insights that influence decisions at the highest levels. This is an opportunity to roll up your

We're transforming the grocery industry At Instacart, we invite the world to share love through food because we believe everyone should have access to the food they love and more time to enjoy it together. Where others see a simple need for grocery delivery, we see exciting complexity and endless opportunity to serve the varied needs of our community. We work to deliver an essential service that customers rely on to get their groceries and household goods, while also offering safe and flexible earnings opportunities to Instacart Personal Shoppers. Instacart has become a lifeline for millions of people, and we’re building the team to help push our shopping cart forward. If you’re ready to do the best work of your life, come join our table. Instacart is a Flex First team There’s no one-size fits all approach to how we do our best work. Our employees have the flexibility to choose where they do their best work—whether it’s from home, an office, or your favorite coffee shop—while staying connected and building community through regular in-person events. Learn more about our flexible approach to where we work. Overview Instacart’s Strategic Finance team partners closely with leaders across the business to drive clarity, rigor, and results. Within this group, the Retailer Pod supports our retailer partnerships by shaping deal strategy, building robust financial models, and guiding decisions that help Instacart and our partners grow together. We are seeking a Senior Financial Analyst to accelerate retailer deal flow and portfolio performance. You will join a high-impact, collaborative pod within Strategic Finance, working daily with Retail Partnerships, Deal Desk, Legal, Revenue Operations, Data Science, and Accounting. In this role, you’ll own end-to-end financial analysis for complex commercial deals, build scalable forecasting frameworks, and present actionable insights that influence decisions at the highest levels. This is an opportunity to roll up your

About the Team OpenAI Finance ensures the organization is positioned for long-term success as we pursue our mission. The Revenue team plays a critical role in enabling OpenAI to scale commercial offerings by overseeing billing operations, deal desk, revenue systems, revenue accounting, and controllership. We work cross-functionally with Product, Engineering, Go-To-Market, Tax, Legal, and Technical Accounting to support new monetization strategies, improve operational efficiency, and maintain financial integrity as the business grows. About the Role This senior leader will own key elements of Ads revenue accounting from technical assessment through operational execution. The role will guide accounting for products, pricing, contracts, incentives, credits, refunds, makegoods, international expansion, and new go-to-market motions. It will establish governance and translate approved accounting positions into launch, billing, data, close, reconciliation, and control requirements. Success requires deep technical revenue expertise, strong business partnership, and the ability to build durable 0-to-1 processes in a fast-changing environment. Advertising is a critical and growing monetization vector for OpenAI, and this role will help shape the financial foundations that enable Ads to scale responsibly and transparently. This role is based in San Francisco, CA. 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: Lead technical accounting assessments for Ads products and commercial arrangements, including performance obligations, variable consideration, allocation, principal-versus-agent, collectibility, contract modifications, refunds, incentives, credits, makegoods, and revenue presentation. Own and continuously evolve Ads revenue accounting policies and operating guidance as product behavior, pricing, contracting, incentive programs, and billing models change. Establish governance for new pro

About the Team OpenAI Finance ensures the organization is positioned for long-term success as we pursue our mission. The Revenue team plays a critical role in enabling OpenAI to scale commercial offerings by overseeing billing operations, deal desk, revenue systems, revenue accounting, and controllership. We work cross-functionally with Product, Engineering, Go-To-Market, Tax, Legal, and Technical Accounting to support new monetization strategies, improve operational efficiency, and maintain financial integrity as the business grows. About the Role This role will own accounting and controllership for OpenAI's advertising products. You will help build the financial foundation for Ads from early scale into durable operations, including revenue recognition, close, controls, reporting, reconciliations, and risk assessment across measurement logic, billing data, rev-share structures, incentives, credits, and emerging monetization models. You will be a finance partner to Product, Engineering, Technical Accounting, Go-To-Market, Tax, Legal, and Financial Systems. The role requires someone who can independently operate in ambiguity, design 0-to-1 processes and apply AI automation thoughtfully to support a rapidly evolving product environment. Advertising is a critical and growing monetization vector for OpenAI, and this role will help shape the financial foundations that enable Ads to scale responsibly and transparently. You’ll be responsible for: Own end-to-end accounting and controllership for Ads revenue, including revenue recognition, contra-revenue, rev-share, incentives, credits, rebates, and related close activities under ASC 606. Design and execute scalable month-end and quarter-end close processes for Ads, ensuring accurate, complete, and timely reporting supported by reconciliations, flux analysis, and reviewer-ready evidence. Design accounting and control frameworks for global Ads expansion, including new currencies, billing entities, tax/invoice localization, FX

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. The team owns the operational strategy and execution of our mid-to-late GTM Sales motion for the NAMER Upmarket organization, shaping how opportunities progress from creation through close. We build and evolve the sales processes, workflows, data, and policies that enable sellers to effectively manage opportunities, navigate complex deals, and convert pipeline into predictable revenue. Our work spans opportunity management, forecasting, complex deal strategy and structuring, contracting workflows, and Rules of Engagement. We work hands-on with sellers and Sales leadership to navigate critical deals and day-to-day business challenges, while identifying where broader processes, policies, data, or systems need to evolve. We partner closely across Deal Desk, Finance, Legal, GTM Systems & Analytics, and other GTM teams to improve seller effectiveness, sales efficiency, conversion, and revenue predictability as the business scales. What you’ll do as a Senior GTM Strategy & Operations Manager at Vanta: Own the strategy and day to day operations for the Upmarket mid-to-late sales funnel, shaping how opportunities progress from creation through close. Develop a strong point of view on the sales processes, stage management, opportunity management, workflows, and seller behaviors needed to improve conversion, sales efficiency, and predictable revenue growth. Own and evolve the operational workflows and data that support contracting and complex deal execution, ensuring sellers have clear, scalable paths from opportunity through contract and close. Serve as a go-to strategic and operational partner for creative and complex deal stru

About the Team OpenAI Finance helps ensure the organization is set up for success in pursuit of its mission of ensuring that artificial general intelligence benefits all of humanity. Within Finance, the Technical Revenue team partners with Product, Legal, GTM, Strategic Finance, Revenue Accounting, Finance Systems, and the company’s GTM Deal Desk organization to enable scalable, audit-ready monetization. We advise on commercial and contract design, establish defensible accounting positions under ASC 606, and provide clear conclusions and handoffs for downstream execution by Revenue Accounting Operations. About the Role We’re looking for a Senior Manager of Technical Revenue Enablement to lead Revenue Recognition deal advisory for OpenAI’s general B2B commercial activity. Reporting to the Head of Technical Revenue, you will serve as the primary Revenue Recognition counterpart to OpenAI’s Deal Desk organization, partnering with Legal, GTM, Product, Pricing, and Strategic Finance throughout the presignature deal lifecycle. You will own intake and triage, advise on non-standard terms, approve arrangements supported by established policy and precedent, and route novel or strategic matters to the appropriate technical owner. You will build a scalable deal-advisory model by translating ASC 606 into practical contract guardrails, approved language, decision trees, review thresholds, and clear service levels. This role requires deep technical accounting judgment, commercial fluency, strong stakeholder influence, and the ability to make timely, risk-based decisions in a fast-moving environment. This role is based in San Francisco, CA. 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: Lead the Revenue Recognition deal-advisory function for general B2B transactions, serving as the primary finance counterpart to OpenAI’s GTM Deal Desk organization. Partner early with GTM Deal Desk, Legal, GTM, Pr

About DataCamp DataCamp's mission is to empower everyone with the data and AI skills essential for 21st-century success. By providing practical, engaging learning experiences, DataCamp equips learners and organizations of all sizes to harness the power of data and AI. As a trusted partner to over 14 million learners and 5,000+ companies, including 80% of the Fortune 1000, DataCamp is leading the charge in addressing the critical data and AI skills shortage. About the role We are looking for a Sales Operations Admin to join our growing Revenue Operations team. As Sales Operations Admin you will work with members of Sales, Customer Success, Finance and Legal teams. The Deal Desk function is a strategic role responsible for optimizing sales processes, implementing sales technologies, and ensuring the sales team operates efficiently to support business growth and customer satisfaction. About you At DataCamp, we seek individuals who embody our core values of data-driven decision-making, action, transparency, ownership, and customer focus. You thrive in a fast-paced, high-performing environment and are driven by a passion for making a meaningful impact. You're adaptable, embracing change and ambiguity with enthusiasm. Your initiative and entrepreneurial spirit push you beyond just meeting targets—you aim to understand the "why" behind our goals and take ownership to drive the business forward. You’re a collaborative team player who values transparency and always seeks to improve and innovate. If this sounds like you, we encourage you to apply! Responsibilities Manage the day-to-day quote and pricing approvals Partner with our commercial teams to ensure opportunities are properly created and tracked in Salesforce, including stage, probability, booking amount, and other key fields Create standard templates, playbooks, and sales guidance documents that streamline the deal desk process Serve as the first line of defense for tackling small cleanliness/technical issues on

The Sales Ops Analyst plays a critical role in supporting MongoDB’s global Sales organization through operational excellence, data governance, project ownership, and process optimization. This role is responsible for managing end-to-end operational workflows, driving cross-functional initiatives, providing actionable business insights, and resolving complex operational issues that impact sales productivity. Unlike entry-level operational support roles, Sales Ops Analysts are expected to independently manage medium-scale projects, perform root cause analysis, influence stakeholders, and contribute to continuous improvements across sales processes, systems, and data management practices. MongoDB’s Sales Operations team partners closely with Sales, Marketing, Finance, Deal Desk, Customer Success, and Business Systems teams to ensure operational scalability and data-driven decision-making. We are looking to speak to candidates who are based in Gurugram for our hybrid working model. Shift Timings: 2:00 PM – 10:00 PM (cabs will be provided) You Will Have the Opportunity To Accelerate your career through exposure to world-class sales methodologies and operational best practices Own and manage operational workflows and medium-scale projects impacting global sales teams Partner with stakeholders across Sales, GTM Operations, Deal Desk, Finance, and Business Systems teams Develop expertise in CRM systems, sales processes, data governance, reporting, and automation Build analytical capabilities by transforming complex data into actionable business insights Drive process improvements that increase operational efficiency and sales productivity Gain exposure to strategic initiatives supporting a rapidly growing global SaaS organization Responsibilities Sales Operations & Process Ownership Own end-to-end operational processes to ensure data quality, governance, and process integrity across prospecting tools, lead management, account and territory management, and system audits