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
