Business Development Lead in United States

Drata is building the trust layer between great companies - automating compliance, managing risk, and helping organizations prove trust continuously as they scale. We're Dratanauts: a global crew of 600+ professionals united by a culture that rewards integrity, ownership, and raising the bar, no matter where in the world we're working from. Why Join the Drata Team? At Drata, you're not maintaining legacy compliance software - you're building the agentic AI platform defining what trust looks like for the next generation of companies. Here's what makes the work itself worth showing up for: Problems without a playbook: You'll work at the edge of AI and security, building agentic governance, continuous compliance, and real-time trust verification to solve problems that don't have an established answer yet. You're writing it as you go. Real ownership, not just process: Our values center on owning outcomes and raising the bar, not checking boxes. You're expected to have opinions and back them. A seat at the table: Your perspective is unique and valued. Open debate and diverse viewpoints are built into how decisions actually get made here, at every level. Growth at rocketship speed: Drata is scaling fast, which means scope grows fast too. High performers get more ownership, visibility, and experience. A crew, not just coworkers: Dratanauts consistently describe a "come as you are" culture with sharp, curious people—the kind of team that makes hard problems genuinely fun to solve. See what they say here and follow us on LinkedIn for company news, employee stories, and career updates. Job Summary: We are looking for a Senior Business Development Lead, Cloud Service Providers to join the Drata team. This is a senior individual contributor role responsible for leading and expanding Drata's strategic partnerships across major cloud providers, including AWS. As the primary owner of our CSP partner strategy, you will shape how Drata co-sells, co-markets, and integrates within the

About PostHog Product development used to mean manually writing code, running analysis, diagnosing bugs, and rolling out changes using dozens of tools. PostHog is the only platform that acts like a co-pilot for you (and your AI agents) to do it all – autonomously. We started with open-source product analytics, launched out of Y Combinator's W20 cohort . We've since shipped more than a dozen products , including: PostHog Code , the only AI devtool that understands your product, not just your codebase. A built-in data warehouse , so users can query product and customer data together using custom SQL insights. PostHog AI , an AI-powered analyst that answers product questions, helps users find useful session recordings, and writes custom SQL queries. We are: Product-led . More than 450,000 organizations have installed PostHog, mostly driven by word-of-mouth. We have intensely strong product-market fit. Default alive . Revenue is growing incredibly quickly, and we're very efficient. We raise money to push ambition and grow faster, not to keep the lights on. Well-funded. We've raised more than $180m from some of the world's top investors. We're set up for a long, ambitious journey. We're focused on building an awesome product for end users, hiring exceptional teammates, shipping fast, and being as weird as possible . Things we care about Transparency: Everyone can read about our roadmap, how we pay (or even let go of) people, our strategy, and how we work, in our public company handbook . Internally, we share revenue, notes and slides from board meetings, and fundraising plans, so everyone has the context they need to make good decisions. Autonomy: We don’t tell anyone what to do. Everyone chooses what to work on next based on what's going to have the biggest impact on our customers, and what they find interesting and motivating to work on. Engineers lead product teams and make product decisions . Teams are flexible and easy to change when needed. Shipping fast: Why not n

About the Team OpenAI’s Compute Strategy team is responsible for securing and scaling the core resources that power our research and products. We partner across engineering, finance, legal, and operations to identify, negotiate, and execute strategic partnerships that expand OpenAI’s capacity for compute, power, and data center infrastructure. Our mandate spans energy procurement, real estate development, colocation, cloud service providers, silicon and strategic supply chain, and infrastructure financing—ensuring OpenAI can grow with speed, resilience, and cost-efficiency. About the Role We are hiring several Business Development Lead, Compute Strategy positions focused on compute infrastructure. Each hire will bring deep expertise in one or more focus areas while collaborating across the broader infrastructure stack. In this role, you will source opportunities, structure partnerships, and negotiate high-value agreements across OpenAI’s infrastructure ecosystem. You will work directly with external partners and suppliers while collaborating internally with engineering, legal, finance, and operations to ensure we have the resources needed to support state-of-the-art AI systems. This role requires technical fluency, commercial judgment, and disciplined execution. Your work will directly shape how quickly, reliably, and efficiently OpenAI can bring new compute capacity online. Each hire will focus on building partnerships and executing deals in one or more of the following areas: Energy and Power: securing scalable and sustainable energy supply. Land and Real Estate: identifying and securing strategic sites. Colocation : evaluating and contracting for third-party data center capacity. Cloud Service Providers (CSPs): structuring partnerships with hyperscalers and specialized AI cloud providers. Silicon: building semiconductor partnerships to secure advanced silicon and resilient long-term supply. Fiber & Equipment: securing fiber & critical data center equipmen

At Snowflake, we are powering the era of the agentic enterprise. To usher in this new era, we seek AI-native thinkers across every function who are energized by the opportunity to reinvent how they work. You don’t just use tools; you possess an innate curiosity, treating AI as a high-trust collaborator that is core to how you solve problems and accelerate your impact. We look for low-ego individuals who thrive in dynamic and fast-moving environments and move with an experimental mindset — who rapidly test emerging capabilities to discover simpler, more powerful ways to deliver results. At Snowflake, your role isn't just to execute a function, but to help redefine the future of how work gets done. Role Overview At Snowflake, we are powering the era of the agentic enterprise. We are looking for AI-native builders and operators who use AI as a core part of how they think, learn, and execute. The Startup Business Development Lead will be a key member of the Snowflake for Startups team, responsible for identifying, engaging, and growing relationships with the most strategic AI-native startups. This person will work across Sales, Product, Marketing, AI Partnerships, Ventures, and Solutions Engineering to help high-potential startups build with Snowflake and accelerate adoption of Snowflake AI. This role requires a rare combination of startup ecosystem credibility, business development judgment, and practical understanding of modern AI application architectures. The ideal candidate can engage founders on both business value and technical direction, and can translate Snowflake’s AI platform into compelling growth opportunities for startup partners. This is an individual contributor role and will be accountable for building a high-quality pipeline of AI-native startup opportunities, increasing activation and adoption of Snowflake AI products, and driving long-term consumption growth from strategic startup partners. Key Responsibilities Build and grow relationships with high-

At Snowflake, we are powering the era of the agentic enterprise. To usher in this new era, we seek AI-native thinkers across every function who are energized by the opportunity to reinvent how they work. You don’t just use tools; you possess an innate curiosity, treating AI as a high-trust collaborator that is core to how you solve problems and accelerate your impact. We look for low-ego individuals who thrive in dynamic and fast-moving environments and move with an experimental mindset — who rapidly test emerging capabilities to discover simpler, more powerful ways to deliver results. At Snowflake, your role isn't just to execute a function, but to help redefine the future of how work gets done. Role Overview At Snowflake, we are powering the era of the agentic enterprise. We are looking for AI-native builders and operators who use AI as a core part of how they think, learn, and execute. The Startup Business Development Lead will be a key member of the Snowflake for Startups team, responsible for identifying, engaging, and growing relationships with the most strategic AI-native startups. This person will work across Sales, Product, Marketing, AI Partnerships, Ventures, and Solutions Engineering to help high-potential startups build with Snowflake and accelerate adoption of Snowflake AI. This role requires a rare combination of startup ecosystem credibility, business development judgment, and practical understanding of modern AI application architectures. The ideal candidate can engage founders on both business value and technical direction, and can translate Snowflake’s AI platform into compelling growth opportunities for startup partners. This is an individual contributor role and will be accountable for building a high-quality pipeline of AI-native startup opportunities, increasing activation and adoption of Snowflake AI products, and driving long-term consumption growth from strategic startup partners. Key Responsibilities Build and grow relationships with high-

About Pinterest: Millions of people around the world come to our platform to find creative ideas, dream about new possibilities and plan for memories that will last a lifetime. At Pinterest, we’re on a mission to bring everyone the inspiration to create a life they love, and that starts with the people behind the product. Discover a career where you ignite innovation for millions, transform passion into growth opportunities, celebrate each other’s unique experiences and embrace the flexibility to do your best work. Creating a career you love? It’s Possible. At Pinterest, AI isn't just a feature, it's a powerful partner that augments our creativity and amplifies our impact, and we’re looking for candidates who are excited to be a part of that. To get a complete picture of your experience and abilities, we’ll explore your foundational skills and how you collaborate with AI. Through our interview process, what matters most is that you can always explain your approach, showing us not just what you know, but how you think. You can read more about our AI interview philosophy and how we use AI in our recruiting process here . We are looking for a Partner Development Lead to join our founding team. In this role, you will be the central spine connecting our partner ecosystem with Pinterest’s product and commercial teams. You will drive the strategy and execution for a set of Activation (API) and AdTech partnerships, driving durable revenue growth and product adoption. You are a builder, a strategist, and an operator who thrives on ambiguity and can translate complex partner requirements into cohesive GTM motions. What you’ll do: Own the Portfolio Strategy: Develop and execute multi-year strategies for our Activation (API) and AdTech partners (SSPs/DSPs). Define the roadmap for partner tiering, onboarding, and long-term commercial engagement. Architect the Partner Flywheel: Partner with Business Development (Acquisition), Product Marketing (Enablement), and Product/Engi

Who are we? Cohere is the leading security-first enterprise AI company. We build cutting-edge foundation AI models and end-to-end products that are designed to solve real-world business problems. We’re training and deploying frontier models for enterprises who are building AI systems. We believe that our work is instrumental to the widespread adoption of AI and we are looking for folks that want to be part of that. We obsess over what we build. Each one of us is responsible for contributing to increasing the capabilities of our models and the value they drive for our customers. Cohere is a team of researchers, engineers, designers, and more, who are all passionate about their craft. We are a global technology company headquartered in Toronto with key offices in London, New York City, San Francisco, Montreal, Paris, Berlin and Seoul. Join us! As Cohere scales its enterprise AI platform and accelerates its position as a leader in sovereign AI solutions, we need a strategic Corporate Development leader to drive high-impact partnerships, M&A, and long-term business development. This role will focus on expanding Cohere’s ecosystem through strategic alliances, channel relationships, and targeted acquisitions that support our growth in regulated industries, government sectors, and global markets. Key Responsibilities M&A Strategy: Evaluate and execute acquisitions or investments in complementary technologies that strengthen our core platform, particularly in compute infrastructure, specialized AI capabilities, and regulatory compliance tools Lead due diligence processes with cross-functional teams to ensure technical integration feasibility and strategic alignment Manage post-merger integration to maximize value realization and revenue synergies Market Expansion: Support entry into new verticals and geographies through targeted collaborations with industry leaders and government partners Develop market entry strategies that address regulatory requirements and sover

Replit is the agentic software creation platform that enables anyone to build applications using natural language. With millions of users worldwide, Replit is democratizing software development by removing traditional barriers to application creation. Replit is seeking a Senior Business Development Manager to lead and scale our outbound sales development team as we expand our go-to-market efforts. This role will oversee a team of BDRs (Business Development Representatives) proactively targeting and engaging high-potential accounts to build a robust pipeline for our Account Executives. The ideal candidate will have hands-on outbound prospecting experience and proven leadership skills, a strong understanding of the modern GTM technology, previous experience in creating systems and orchestrating technology to support an efficient & scalable 0->1 outbound workflow, and previous experience collaborating tightly with marketing and sales ops to build highly-targeted account lists and multi-channel outreach sequences. Experience & interest in vibe coding and/or technical experience is highly valued. This position is critical to our go-to-market strategy, responsible for defining our outbound playbook, identifying key target personas , hiring top-tier talent, coaching team members, and ensuring persistent, high-quality outreach & pipeline generation across all segments from SMB to Enterprise. You'll establish the foundation for scalable revenue growth while architecting a personalized first-touch experience that sets the tone for their Replit journey. We believe this role offers a distinctive opportunity for proven sales development professionals who excel in both strategic account targeting and team leadership, with a passion for technology and AI. You'll leverage your expertise to build a world-class BDR organization that effectively cuts through the noise to communicate Replit's value proposition: a world where anyone can create software using natural langu

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: Airbnb is redefining the world's approach to accommodation and travel. We are creating highly local, personal and authentic experiences for our host and guest community around the world. Our platform connects millions of people a year and furthers our mission to create a world where anyone can belong anywhere. To power the global Airbnb community, we are building a world-class payments platform - one that currently supports 191 countries, 63 currencies, connects dozens of payment providers and banks, and processes billions of dollars per year for all of Airbnb’s business units. As the platform grows, we’ll be adding new payment partners, establishing licensed payments companies around the world, and building innovative payment experiences and financial products for our guests and hosts. Our goal? To create a future where transparent, simple, and familiar payment solutions can empower people, entrepreneurs and communities on our global marketplace. The Difference You Will Make: Airbnb is seeking an experienced and strategic Payment Partnerships Manager to drive the vision, execution, and ongoing performance of our partner network supporting how we pay out to our global host community across 200+ markets. Reporting to the Head of Payment Partnerships, this role is pivotal in managing the partnerships that ensure our hosts are paid reliably, efficiently, compliantly and in alignment with our growth and platform goals. You will lead business development, deal negotiation, and strategic relationship management for a portfolio of high-value payment partners. With a focus on impact a

We believe that the way people interact with their finances will drastically improve in the next few years. We’re dedicated to empowering this transformation by building the tools and experiences that thousands of developers use to create their own products. Plaid powers the tools millions of people rely on to live a healthier financial life. We work with thousands of companies like Venmo, SoFi, several of the Fortune 500, and many of the largest banks to make it easy for people to connect their financial accounts to the apps and services they want to use. Plaid’s network covers 12,000 financial institutions across the US, Canada, UK and Europe. Founded in 2013, the company is headquartered in San Francisco with offices in New York, Washington D.C., London and Amsterdam. Our New Business team at Plaid combines deep product and industry knowledge and is focused on bringing Plaid to the world’s largest and most complex enterprises. Our thesis is that every major enterprise can benefit from better financial technology, and that many industries that don't currently consider themselves to be fintechs actually are. You'll be the one helping us achieve this vision at scale. As an Enterprise Business Development Representative, you'll forge the path to finding new enterprise clients and strategically prospecting Fortune 500 and high-growth market leaders. We are looking for extraordinary sales professionals with SaaS/tech outbounding experience who can navigate complex organizations, map multiple stakeholders, and demonstrate the profound impact Plaid can have on enterprise ecosystems. In this role, you will be responsible for strategic account mapping, executive-level prospecting, driving deep engagement, and nurturing early-stage enterprise opportunities for our Enterprise Account Executives. The ideal candidate is customer-centric, resilient, intellectually curious, and adept at challenging the status quo within large organizations. Responsibilities Strategic Pipeline Ar

We are a global team of innovators and pioneers dedicated to shaping the future of observability. At New Relic, we build an intelligent platform that empowers companies to thrive in an AI-first world by giving them unparalleled insight into their complex systems. As we continue to expand our global footprint, we're looking for passionate people to join our mission. If you're ready to help the world's best companies optimize their digital applications, we invite you to explore a career with us! Your opportunity Are you a driven, resilient sales professional looking to elevate your career in a high-growth SaaS environment? At New Relic, our Business Development Representative (BDRs) play a critical role in building pipeline and driving revenue by engaging prospects and introducing them to the value of our platform. If you have the grit, determination, and a proven track record in sales, we want to hear from you. Why Join New Relic? New Relic is the leader in observability and application performance monitoring. Our BDR team is at the forefront of our go-to-market strategy, partnering closely with Account Executives (AEs) to deliver impactful business outcomes for our customers. You’ll join a collaborative, high-energy team with personalized coaching, world-class tools, and significant opportunities for career growth. What you'll do Generate new business opportunities through outbound cold calling, personalized email outreach, and social selling. Pre-qualify inbound and outbound leads by understanding customer pain points and aligning them with New Relic’s solutions. Collaborate with AEs to research target accounts, identify key personas, and create tailored outreach strategies. Manage and grow a pipeline of prospects while maintaining consistent communication to nurture early-stage opportunities. Exceed daily, weekly, monthly metrics, including qualified meetings and pipeline contribution, while delivering a stellar customer experience. This role requires 1+ years of

Every day, tens of millions of people come to Roblox to explore, create, play, learn, and connect with friends in 3D immersive digital experiences– all created by our global community of developers and creators. At Roblox, we’re building the tools and platform that empower our community to bring any experience that they can imagine to life. Our vision is to reimagine the way people come together, from anywhere in the world, and on any device. We’re on a mission to connect a billion people with optimism and civility, and looking for amazing talent to help us get there. A career at Roblox means you’ll be working to shape the future of human interaction, solving unique technical challenges at scale, and helping to create safer, more civil shared experiences for everyone. Roblox is currently at a critical inflection point in its financial evolution. We recently achieved a significant payout milestone to our Creator community in 2025. To successfully build upon this momentum year over year while controlling our costs, a world-class payments and wallets ecosystem is essential to ensure frictionless transactions across the platform for our Users and Creators. This role offers the rare opportunity to lead a 0-to-1 buildout of a new payments division. If successful, you will transition Roblox from standard payment processing to a strategic orchestration model, utilizing AI-driven approach to optimize significant transaction cost. Beyond cost savings, you will spearhead the transformation of our creator payouts, building a product designed to empower the livelihood of millions of developers through instant, transparent, and global financial access. You Will Own Global Partnership Negotiation & Account Management: Lead RFPs and high-stakes contractual negotiations with major global payment processors (e.g., Stripe, PayPal, etc) and financial institutions. Establish formal business relationships where none currently exist, securing advantageous commercial

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. About Airbnb Host Community Airbnb creates opportunities for millions of hosts to build a business, develop connections with guests and hosts, and positively impact local communities. The strength of the global Host community sets Airbnb apart. We keep hosts at the center of everything we do. The Airbnb Community team treats hosts as partners by fostering connection, supporting their development and success, and incorporating their feedback in our product and policies. About the Role The Senior Host Development Lead is an experienced leader responsible for the creation and execution of global educational programs and systems that inspire and empower Airbnb hosts to grow their business and deliver high quality hospitality. This role collaborates cross-functionally to build strategy, define scope, and lead execution of initiatives that support host onboarding, continuous learning, and long-term development throughout the host journey. Aligned with Airbnb’s highest-priority company goals, these initiatives take the form of scalable solutions—such as in-product content, webinars, workshops, articles, and online toolkits—designed to meet diverse learning styles and contexts in a way that is globally consistent and locally relevant. Each educational touchpoint is conceived as part of a broader, holistic system that shapes host success through education and recognition. Responsibilities: Drive the vision and strategy of key host education programs across the host lifecycle, from onboarding to long-term optimization. Manage the end-to-end strategy, design, and execution of scaled host education initiatives

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 looking for a high-impact Professional Services Business Development Director to join our Professional Services Sales team. This role owns the end-to-end sales cycle for Smartsheet’s Services Portfolio and drives customer value by positioning Smartsheet as a strategic partner. We are seeking candidates who operate by: leading complex, multi-solution pursuits, influencing executive stakeholders, and applying value based selling to measurable business outcomes. You will report to the Director, Customer Outcomes and this is a remote eligible role. You Will: Own the services sales cycle: Lead pursuits from early qualification through signed Statement of Work (SOW), with or without AE/SE support Elevate conversations: Uplevel customer and account team discussions across the Customer Outcomes lifecycle to influence platform adoption, multi solution expansion, and long term value creation Drive value-led selling: Apply value frameworks (e.g., Smartsheet Value Selling, MEDDIC, Challenger) to uncover priorities, link them to Smartsheet solutions, and advise the customer through opportunity closed-won Engage executives: Develop trusted relationships with executive sponsors, procurement, and key decision makers to accelerate deal velocity and eliminate last mile friction Generate and progress pipeline: Maintain ~3× coverage by identifying whitespace, creating new opportunities, and advancing stalled pursuits with clear next steps and mutual action plans Forecast with discipline: Use Salesforce and Clari for precise pi

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,