Deal Strategist in United States

About the Team OpenAI Finance ensures the organization is positioned for long-term success as we pursue our mission. The Strategic Sourcing & Procurement function plays a critical role in enabling OpenAI to deliver impact across research, product development, technology infrastructure, and services by helping the company scale responsibly, securely, and with strong commercial discipline. Our work sits at the intersection of innovation and execution. We partner closely with teams across OpenAI to translate rapidly evolving business needs into scalable, compliant, and economically sound external partnerships. As OpenAI continues to grow at pace, services sourcing is becoming increasingly strategic across the company. Every business unit relies on external service providers in different ways — to extend capacity, access specialized expertise, support operations, and accelerate execution. Done well, Procurement becomes a source of trust and momentum, helping OpenAI move faster with the right partners, stronger commercial outcomes, and the right level of protection. About the Role We are seeking an experienced Strategic Sourcing (GTM) Leader to lead strategic sourcing and commercial enablement for OpenAI’s Go-to-Market organization across B2B and B2C channels. You will manage substantial and rapidly growing spend while shaping sourcing strategies and scalable commercial pathways across Media, Creative, Production, Influencer, Agency, Sponsorships, Analytics, Communications, and Event suppliers in support of high-impact global initiatives. You’ll help evolve our GTM procurement function from reactive deal support into a speed-enabling, scalable commercial engine that delivers cost efficiency, launch readiness, and strong governance in a fast-moving environment. In this role, you will: Develop and execute sourcing strategies across GTM, Brand, Global Affairs, Events, Growth, and Partnership activities—spanning both B2B and B2C channels—that align with our mission and b

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

Job Requisition ID # 26WD100708 Director, Expansion & Strategic Accounts D&M We are seeking a strategic Director Expansion & Strategic Accounts to lead a regional sales organization focused on the Design and Manufacturing industry. This leader will drive revenue growth, develop high-performing teams, strengthen customer and partner relationships, and execute sales strategies aligned with Autodesk’s business objectives. What You’ll Do Lead, coach, and develop a high-performing sales team focused on revenue growth and customer expansion. Develop and execute territory and industry sales strategies aligned to Autodesk priorities. Drive quota attainment through pipeline discipline, forecasting, deal inspection, and accountability. Build strong customer, partner, and internal relationships to identify growth opportunities and deliver outcomes. Partner across sales, technical sales, customer success, partner management, marketing, finance, and product teams to improve execution. Create a culture of ownership, collaboration, inclusion, and continuous improvement. What You Bring Experience leading sales teams in enterprise software, SaaS, technology, or a related B2B environment. Track record of achieving revenue targets and building predictable sales performance. Strong understanding of territory planning, pipeline generation, forecasting, account planning, and customer expansion. Experience with direct and indirect sales channels, including partner ecosystems. Ability to lead through influence across matrixed teams and senior stakeho

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 Ramp Ramp is building the smart infrastructure for finance teams, embedded in the transaction flow of every dollar a business spends. We automate how over $200B in annualized spend flows in and out of 70,000+ companies: authorizing payments, flagging risk, categorizing spend, and closing books. The problems are high-stakes, data-dense, and unforgiving. We hire people with high agency and high urgency. We look for slope over intercept. We care less about where you trained and more about what you’ve built. At Ramp, everyone is a builder who owns problems end to end and makes consequential decisions that shape the outcome. The median Ramp customer saves 5% and grows revenue 16% in their first year – far in excess of businesses operating without Ramp. We believe every ambitious company deserves the same. If you want to build systems that directly shape how companies move and manage billions, Ramp is the place to do it. About the Role We're looking for a Senior Manager, Deal Desk to own and evolve one of Ramp's most strategic go-to-market functions. You'll sit at the center of our commercial engine—partnering closely with Sales, Finance, Legal, Product, Revenue Operations, and Billing to help structure, approve, and execute Ramp's most important deals. This is a highly cross-functional leadership role where you'll balance commercial creativity with operational rigor. You'll help Sales win competitive opportunities while protecting pricing discipline, improving scalability, and ensuring an exceptional customer experience. You'll own the operating model that governs how Ramp structures, approves, and executes commercial deals as we continue to scale. This is a unique opportunity for an experienced Deal Desk leader who wants to own a function and shape the operating model behind one of the fastest-growing fintech companies. What You'll Do Lead and develop a small Deal Desk team while remaining a hands-on operator, supporting Ramp's most strategic and complex commercia

About Ramp Ramp is building the smart infrastructure for finance teams, embedded in the transaction flow of every dollar a business spends. We automate how over $200B in annualized spend flows in and out of 70,000+ companies: authorizing payments, flagging risk, categorizing spend, and closing books. The problems are high-stakes, data-dense, and unforgiving. We hire people with high agency and high urgency. We look for slope over intercept. We care less about where you trained and more about what you’ve built. At Ramp, everyone is a builder who owns problems end to end and makes consequential decisions that shape the outcome. The median Ramp customer saves 5% and grows revenue 16% in their first year – far in excess of businesses operating without Ramp. We believe every ambitious company deserves the same. If you want to build systems that directly shape how companies move and manage billions, Ramp is the place to do it. About the Role Enterprise is growing faster than any other part of the business, and the deals we close in the next twelve months do not just move a number. They shape where Ramp goes next. This is the marketing role at the center of that motion. As an Enterprise Marketing Manager, you will design and run high-impact campaigns for our most strategic accounts: the plays that open CFO doors, re-engage buying committees that have gone cold, and create bespoke moments that turn a stalled deal into a win. You will treat each account as its own market, building deeply customized programs that accelerate complex, multi-year enterprise commitments. In your first year, you will build the Marketing playbook for how Ramp wins strategic accounts, run campaigns you will be proud to put your name on, and influence pipeline directly. You will report to the Enterprise & Strategic ABM Lead and sit directly inside the sales process, working directly with senior GTM leadership on Ramp's most strategic and impactful accounts. What You'll Do Run high-impact named-ac

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

About the Team: We are a small and fast-moving partnerships team that shapes and executes OpenAI’s most important collaborations. Your mission is to identify, structure, and scale partnerships that expand how businesses adopt and benefit from OpenAI. You will work across priority sectors, including legal, professional services, information services, and other B2B categories, while maintaining the flexibility to pursue the highest-impact opportunities as the market evolves. About the Role: You are a senior business development and partnerships leader with strong judgment, high ownership, and a track record of originating and closing complex partnerships. You can move from market strategy and executive engagement through deal development, launch, and growth. You combine strategic thinking, commercial discipline, and hands-on execution, and you can create clarity and momentum across multiple internal and external stakeholders. Key Responsibilities: Develop a portfolio strategy for high-impact B2B partnerships. Identify and prioritize partners based on customer reach, differentiated data or workflows, distribution, strategic value, and growth potential. Originate, structure, negotiate, and launch complex product and commercial partnerships. Build joint value propositions and business plans spanning integration, distribution, go-to-market, and customer adoption. Lead executive relationships and establish durable cross-functional partnership governance. Coordinate product, engineering, sales, marketing, legal, finance, security, policy, and operations to deliver partnership outcomes. Translate partner and market insight into product strategy and new partnership models. Track adoption, pipeline, revenue impact, strategic milestones, and partner performance, and communicate progress and risks clearly. Qualifications: 10+ years of experience in strategic partnerships, business development, enterprise technology, or platform ecosystems. Proven experience personally originatin

About the Role As a Field CTO (Strategic Pursuits) , you will serve as a strategic bridge between our customers, go-to-market (GTM) teams, and product organization. You will partner closely with Sales, Technical Success, and Product to shape high-impact deals, guide customer architecture decisions, and influence our product roadmap based on real-world adoption and feedback. This is a highly cross-functional, externally facing leadership role for someone who combines deep technical expertise with strong business acumen and customer empathy. In this role, you will: Customer & Deal Strategy Partner with Sales, Product and Technical Success teams to support complex, high-value deals as a technical and strategic advisor. Translate customer business needs into scalable technical solutions and architectures. Engage with senior customer stakeholders (CTO/CIO/VP-level) to drive alignment on vision, roadmap, and adoption. Lead technical strategy discussions during key deal stages, including discovery, solution design, and executive presentations. Architecture & Implementation Guidance Guide customers on best practices for deploying and scaling AI-driven solutions in production. Provide architectural oversight across use cases such as LLM applications, integrations, data pipelines, and security. Act as a trusted advisor to ensure long-term success, not just short-term wins. Product & Feedback Loop Bring structured customer insights back to Product and Engineering teams to inform roadmap and prioritization. Identify gaps, opportunities, and emerging patterns from customer deployments. Influence product direction based on real-world usage, scalability needs, and enterprise requirements. GTM Strategy & Thought Leadership Help shape GTM strategies by identifying repeatable patterns across industries and customer segments. Develop scalable frameworks, reference architectures, and playbooks for broader field teams. Represent the company externally through customer en

As a Senior Enterprise Sales Engineer, you’ll serve as a trusted technical advisor and strategic partner to both customers and Sales. You’ll lead complex technical evaluations, align solutions to business outcomes, and help shape deal strategy in high-impact opportunities. This role goes beyond delivering demos - you’ll own the evaluation experience end-to-end, influence key stakeholders, and help drive successful outcomes across enterprise accounts. 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: Own the sales process in partnership with Account Executives by leading and shaping the technical strategy across opportunities from PG to Closed Won Lead customer discovery to uncover technical challenges, business goals, and success criteria, then translate those needs into tailored Datadog solutions and measurable business outcomes Deliver engaging product demos, technical presentations, and solution workshops that connect platform capabilities to customer outcomes for diverse stakeholder audiences including executives Full ownership of the technical evaluations (POVs) end-to-end: scoping use cases and requirements, defining competitive success criteria, building a project plan with clear timelines, and holding all participants accountable to the process Identify, develop, and leverage technical champions across multi-stakeholder environments, building a structured plan for champion cultivation and influence throughout the deal cycle Contribute to product direction through active participation in structured product and engineering field feedback sessions, bringing field insights and customer patterns to PM and engineering teams Drive operational excellence by ensuring activity, deal progress, and customer interactions are accurately documen

As a Senior Enterprise Sales Engineer, you’ll serve as a trusted technical advisor and strategic partner to both customers and Sales. You’ll lead complex technical evaluations, align solutions to business outcomes, and help shape deal strategy in high-impact opportunities. This role goes beyond delivering demos - you’ll own the evaluation experience end-to-end, influence key stakeholders, and help drive successful outcomes across enterprise accounts. 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: Own the sales process in partnership with Account Executives by leading and shaping the technical strategy across opportunities from PG to Closed Won Lead customer discovery to uncover technical challenges, business goals, and success criteria, then translate those needs into tailored Datadog solutions and measurable business outcomes Deliver engaging product demos, technical presentations, and solution workshops that connect platform capabilities to customer outcomes for diverse stakeholder audiences including executives Full ownership of the technical evaluations (POVs) end-to-end: scoping use cases and requirements, defining competitive success criteria, building a project plan with clear timelines, and holding all participants accountable to the process Identify, develop, and leverage technical champions across multi-stakeholder environments, building a structured plan for champion cultivation and influence throughout the deal cycle Contribute to product direction through active participation in structured product and engineering field feedback sessions, bringing field insights and customer patterns to PM and engineering teams Drive operational excellence by ensuring activity, deal progress, and customer interactions are accurately documen

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 is responsible for ensuring the organization is set up for success in pursuit of its mission. The Finance Program Management Office (FinPMO) is responsible for driving and scaling cross-functional finance programs and M&A integrations. FinPMO partners closely across Accounting, Strategic Finance, Corporate Development, Equity, Procurement, Treasury, Risk, and Legal to ensure financial change through M&A and other new business models is executed in a controlled, auditable, and operationally effective way. FinPMO plays a critical role in managing M&A including financial deal diligence, finance operations, post-close integrations, reporting and controls. We help quarterback the M&A process to help ensure corporate integrations are executed cleanly, risks are managed proactively, and leadership has clear deal visibility. About the Role As a M&A Finance Integration Lead, you will own and scale OpenAI’s finance integration model. This is a highly cross-functional, transactions driven role for someone who can bring structure to ambiguity, translate deal complexity into executable workplans, and drive successful M&A outcomes across multiple teams. We’re looking for someone to be the central point of accountability to oversee finance workstreams across the full M&A lifecycle. You’ll ensure integrations are executed cleanly, financial risks are mitigated early, and our books, controls, and systems remain stable as OpenAI scales. 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: Define and build standardized, scalable M&A finance integration frameworks. Drive consistent execution across multiple, simultaneous M&A integrations. Ensure timely, accurate M&A diligence including historical financials, revenue, equity, tax, and procurement. Lead integration planning for deal close readiness a