Deal Strategy Analyst in San Francisco

About the Team OpenAI’s mission is to ensure the responsible and widespread adoption of artificial intelligence. In support of that mission, the Ads Solutions team partners closely with advertisers to deeply understand their businesses and needs, helping inform the development of products and solutions that drive meaningful revenue growth and long-term success on the platform—while maintaining strong standards for user trust and platform integrity. About the Role We’re looking for an Ads Solutions Engineer to partner with advertisers and agencies throughout the pre-sales and growth lifecycle, helping them successfully evaluate, launch, and scale on OpenAI’s advertising platform. You will serve as the technical expert in the sales process, translating advertiser objectives into scalable technical solutions across measurement, integrations, data activation, and campaign execution. This role sits at the intersection of sales, product, and engineering. You’ll work closely with Client Partners, Customer Success Managers, Product, Engineering, Policy, and Operations teams to remove technical blockers, accelerate revenue growth, and shape the future of OpenAI’s ads platform. This role is based in our San Francisco HQ and we offer generous relocation support for new hires. In this role, you will: Partner with Client Partners during the sales cycle to provide technical expertise that unlocks new business and accelerates deal closure. Lead technical discovery with advertisers and agencies to understand data flows, martech stack, measurement requirements, and activation goals. Design and recommend implementation approaches for pixels, APIs, server-to-server integrations, identity solutions, offline conversions, and measurement frameworks. Guide advertisers through onboarding and launch readiness, ensuring successful setup of tracking, attribution, audience signals, and reporting. Troubleshoot technical issues related to implementation, signal quality, delivery, and measurement

About the Team OpenAI’s mission is to ensure the responsible and widespread adoption of artificial intelligence. In support of that mission, the Ads Solutions team partners closely with advertisers to deeply understand their businesses and needs, helping inform the development of products and solutions that drive meaningful revenue growth and long-term success on the platform—while maintaining strong standards for user trust and platform integrity. About the Role We’re looking for an Ads Solutions Engineer to partner with advertisers and agencies throughout the pre-sales and growth lifecycle, helping them successfully evaluate, launch, and scale on OpenAI’s advertising platform. You will serve as the technical expert in the sales process, translating advertiser objectives into scalable technical solutions across measurement, integrations, data activation, and campaign execution. This role sits at the intersection of sales, product, and engineering. You’ll work closely with Client Partners, Customer Success Managers, Product, Engineering, Policy, and Operations teams to remove technical blockers, accelerate revenue growth, and shape the future of OpenAI’s ads platform. This role is based in our San Francisco HQ and we offer generous relocation support for new hires. In this role, you will: Partner with Client Partners during the sales cycle to provide technical expertise that unlocks new business and accelerates deal closure. Lead technical discovery with advertisers and agencies to understand data flows, martech stack, measurement requirements, and activation goals. Design and recommend implementation approaches for pixels, APIs, server-to-server integrations, identity solutions, offline conversions, and measurement frameworks. Guide advertisers through onboarding and launch readiness, ensuring successful setup of tracking, attribution, audience signals, and reporting. Troubleshoot technical issues related to implementation, signal quality, delivery, and measurement

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, Seattle, Washington D.C., Raleigh, London, and Amsterdam. Team Description We're Plaid's Revenue Accounting team, and we own the order-to-cash process that ensures every Plaid customer is billed accurately and that revenue and accounts receivable are reflected correctly across our financial systems. We work at the intersection of commercial deal execution, billing, accounting, and financial reporting. We partner closely with Commercial, RevOps, Legal, Billing Engineering, Business Technology, Strategic Finance, and the broader Accounting org to turn customer agreements into accurate, scalable billing. It's no small feat at Plaid's scale and deal complexity. Our mission is to protect revenue integrity, build customer trust, and build the systems, processes, and controls that let Plaid scale toward its next stage as a company. Role Summary You'll own the operating layer of Plaid's order-to-cash process, turning signed customer agreements into accurate billing configurations, invoices, reconciliations, and financial records. You'll review order forms and commercial terms and translate them into billing, run monthly invoice cycles, process billing adjustments and credit memos, reconcile activity across systems like NetSuite and Salesforce, r

🚀 About WRITER WRITER is where the world's leading enterprises orchestrate AI-powered work. Our vision is to expand human capacity through superintelligence. And we're proving it's possible – through powerful, trustworthy AI that unites IT and business teams together to unlock enterprise-wide transformation. With WRITER's end-to-end platform, hundreds of companies like Mars, Marriott, Uber, and Vanguard are building and deploying AI agents that are grounded in their company's data and fueled by WRITER's enterprise-grade LLMs. Valued at $1.9B and backed by industry-leading investors including Premji Invest, Radical Ventures, and ICONIQ Growth, WRITER is rapidly cementing its position as the leader in enterprise generative AI. Founded in 2020 with office hubs in San Francisco, New York City, Austin, Chicago, and London, our team thinks big and moves fast, and we're looking for smart, hardworking builders and scalers to join us on our journey to create a better future of work with AI. 📐 About the role We’re looking for a Senior commercial counsel who thrives on deal-making and loves turning legal complexity into business clarity. In this role, you’ll be the trusted legal partner to our sales and procurement functions, reporting to our Head of Commercial Legal. You’ll be drafting and negotiating SaaS agreements that power our growth and keep our partnerships strong. If you’re energized by fast-paced negotiations with large enterprise companies, curious about cutting-edge technology, and excited to join a small-but-mighty team that values creativity and collaboration (all with a sense of humor and low ego) then, this may be the role for you. Come help us redefine what it means to be an in-house legal team - and have fun doing it. 🦸🏻‍♀️ What you’ll do Review and negotiate inbound and outbound commercial contracts, including inbound and outbound SaaS licensing agreements, strategic partnership agreements, data processing agreements and other important contracts with ou

ABOUT BASETEN Baseten powers mission-critical inference for the world's most dynamic AI companies, like Cursor, Notion, OpenEvidence, Abridge, Clay, Gamma and Writer. By uniting applied AI research, flexible infrastructure, and seamless developer tooling, we enable companies operating at the frontier of AI to bring cutting-edge models into production. We're growing quickly and recently raised our $1.5B Series F , led by Altimeter Capital, Conviction Partners, and Spark Capital. Join us and help build the platform engineers turn to to ship AI products. THE ROLE We're looking for a Revenue Accounting Manager to own billing, contract review, and revenue recognition as Baseten scales. This is a hands-on, individual-contributor role for someone who wants full ownership of the revenue cycle at a company where deal structures are getting more complex: usage-based pricing, committed capacity, credits, multi-year enterprise contracts, and new business models coming online. You'll join Lauren, who built Baseten's quote-to-cash function from the ground up, to take on billing, contract review, and revenue recognition as deal volume and complexity grow. Having completed our first year-end audit, we're now focused on tightening contract review processes, close procedures, and reporting rigor to support the scale ahead. You'll partner closely with Lauren, FP&A, Sales, Legal, and Revenue Operations to make sure every deal is structured, billed, and recognized correctly from day one. Baseten is building the infrastructure layer for AI-native companies, and we're scaling quickly - in deal volume, contract complexity, and customer size. If you want real ownership over a growing function on a lean team, this role offers real scope. RESPONSIBILITIES Revenue Recognition and Technical Accounting Own revenue recognition under ASC 606 across all contract types, including usage-based/consumption arrangements, committed capacity deals, credits, multi-year contracts, and new business model

ABOUT BASETEN Baseten powers mission-critical inference for the world's most dynamic AI companies, like Cursor, Notion, OpenEvidence, Abridge, Clay, Gamma and Writer. By uniting applied AI research, flexible infrastructure, and seamless developer tooling, we enable companies operating at the frontier of AI to bring cutting-edge models into production. We're growing quickly and recently raised our $1.5B Series F , led by Altimeter Capital, Conviction Partners, and Spark Capital. Join us and help build the platform engineers turn to to ship AI products. PRODUCT AT BASETEN Product at Baseten is a nascent function. Our company today has a strong engineering culture, is heavily customer-obsessed, and moves fast. We're building the product function now, and you'd be one of the people who defines it. You'll work directly with our founders and with some of the best systems and infrastructure engineers in the world, and you'll set the standard for what product looks like here. You earn trust by being technical, finding the truth in front of customers, building great cross-functional relationships, and shipping great product experiences. THE ROLE The largest, most demanding Enterprises are starting to run on Baseten and they come with a range of security, compliance, and procurement requirements. Today that readiness is assembled deal-by-deal. You'll own the enterprise-readiness surface end to end and turn it into product: the deployment options customers can choose and buy, compliance posture they can trust, access and security controls their IT teams require, and the billing and spend controls their finance teams expect. What does a complete Baseten Enterprise Product offering look like? RESPONSIBILITIES Drive the Enterprise Readiness customer experience end to end: Partner with GTM and Enterprise Engineering to make "enterprise-ready" a platform-wide capability, not a deal-by-deal scramble. Outcome: readiness becomes a supported, priced product instead of bespoke work asse

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. Our GTM team is currently looking for a Manager, Sales Development to join us! As our Manager, Sales Development, you’ll lead and support a team of highly motivated and ambitious Sales Development Representatives during a period of rapid-growth at Vanta. These SDRs will be focused on the VMB, SMB and Enterprise segments of our NAMER business. You’ll be integral in shaping our sales organization as we continue to scale, move up market, and distinguish Vanta as best-in-class to prospects in our rapidly growing category of security automation, with Vanta having created the category of automated compliance. This role is hybrid in our San Francisco or New York City office 3 days per week. What you’ll do as a Manager, Sales Development at Vanta: Manage and mentor a growing team of high performing Sales Development Representatives, providing them the tools, coaching, and support needed to deliver results for the business Evolve Vanta’s prospecting playbook by developing and implementing new prospecting initiatives and strategies that will increase deal sizes, resolve complex use cases, and drive more revenue to the company Grow the Sales Development team at Vanta, through active involvement in recruitment, on-boarding and training of new Sales Development Representatives Create and establish strategic prospecting training, conduct weekly forecasting meetings, and mentor your direct reports on strategies that can help create pipeline Help to continually foster an inclusive Sales organization representing Vanta’s culture and values Ensure development plans are in place, adapted to each individual, and made useful in a way that ensures t

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. Overview The Product Sales team at Plaid combines deep product and market expertise to drive adoption and revenue for Plaid's most strategically important solutions. We partner closely with Account Executives, Account Managers, and GTM leadership to develop and close deals across both new and existing customers. The Payments team specializes in bank payments, ACH risk, and money movement — products at the core of Plaid's growth that represent a significant and under-penetrated market opportunity. Role As an Account Executive, Product Sales - Payments, you will drive revenue growth for Plaid's growing suite of Payments solutions– Account Verification, ACH Risk Optimization, and Money Movement. Your primary focus is partnering with account teams to develop and close opportunities. You bring deep payments expertise and a commercial skillset to customer conversations at all levels, translating business problems into Plaid solutions and contributing directly to how we go to market. Responsibilities Drive ACV attainment for Payments solutions across your assigned segments, with clear accountability for pipeline generation and deal execution Partner with AEs and AMs on discovery through close; take direct

Senior Mid-Market Account Executive As a Senior Mid-Market Account Executive on our Mid-Market Sales team, you will assist in Datadog’s overall business growth by strategically engaging and closing net-new customers mid-to-large size markets (1000-5000HC). Senior sellers work majority autonomously following a well-defined framework and methodology, collaborate with internal stakeholders, identify the customer's unique needs, and clearly convey the value of the Datadog product. Mid-Market reps have the opportunity to grow their careers in Sales, develop as individual contributors or into leadership, and continue contributing to Datadog team success. 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, in the office three days per week, to ensure our Datadogs can create a work-life harmony that best fits them. What You’ll Do: Focus entirely on net-new logo acquisition; proven in and committed to self-prospecting Leverage tools such as Sales Navigator and DiscoverOrg and the established framework and methodology in place Strategically prospect into Chief Technology Officers, Engineering/IT Leaders, and technical end users Manage complex and lengthy deal cycles autonomously Collaborate seamlessly across the business including with SDRs to drive top of funnel activity, with Sales Ops, Engineering, Project Management, and more Manage the full sales cycle, including negotiations and on-site technical demonstrations Leverage the ecosystem, network, partners environment </ul

About the Team OpenAI Finance ensures the organization is positioned for long-term success as we pursue our mission. The Order to Cash (OTC) team oversees the end-to-end flow of commercial transactions from order intake and provisioning through billing, collections, credit risk, accounts receivable operations, and cash application. The team focuses on accuracy, compliance, operational discipline, and a high-quality customer experience. About the Role We are hiring for the Senior Credit & Collections role to support OpenAI's global receivables operations, with a focus on white-glove support for premier and strategic accounts across the U.S. and key regional areas of AR work, including standard operating procedures, payment methods, customer portals, disputes, cash application handoffs, escalations, and emerging go-to-market channels. In this role, you will manage complex customer accounts, guide priority AR workstreams, support credit reviews, and partner cross-functionally with Sales, Customer Success, Billing Operations, Deal Desk, Legal, Accounting, Cash Application, Finance Systems, and external partners. You will help improve cash collections, reduce aging, support responsible credit decisions, and maintain a strong customer experience across sensitive, high-value, and operationally complex relationships. 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 Manage a portfolio of premier, strategic, and high-touch customer accounts across the U.S. and key regional AR work areas, ensuring timely collections, clear communication, and a white-glove customer experience. Support collections coverage across key regional areas of AR work, including payment follow-up, documentation requirements, portal submission workflows, tax or invoicing considerations, dispute coordination, and escalation management. Support new channel success, including marke

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 GTM team is uniquely positioned to help customers realize the transformative potential of advanced AI models for their businesses and end users. As an individual contributor on the GTM Operations team, you’ll play a critical role in designing and scaling the operational systems that power our sales organization. This role will serve as a trusted partner to GTM leadership, building the end-to-end ops design for sales lifecycle from lead routing through territory design, opportunity management, deal execution, and delivery readiness. This role combines systems and process design with operational performance management, delivering insights and driving automation to improve field efficiency and velocity. You’ll collaborate cross-functionally with Marketing Ops, Enterprise Systems, Product, Delivery, Finance, Enablement, Legal, Deal Desk, and Security to develop scalable infrastructure, streamline workflows, and enable scalable growth across the business. In this role, you will: GTM Data,Governance & Routing: Create a reliable GTM data foundation that makes SFDC easier to use and ensures leads, accounts, and opportunities are accurately routed, defined, enriched, and actionable. Design and manage lead and campaign routing; define requirements and partner with systems and marketing ops on build. Implement alerting, monitoring, an

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

Who We Are Notion is the collaborative AI workspace where teams and agents think together . We're building one place where your knowledge, projects, meetings, and AI tools live side by side, so work is faster, clearer, and less fragmented. Millions of individuals, small teams, and large companies run their work on Notion. Notinos (our employees) are customer zero in bringing this future of work to life. We care about craft, building things that last, and the belief that great work is still fundamentally human. Our goal isn’t to ship the next feature. Each and every team of Notinos is working to set the standard for how humans work together in the AI era. From building a business’s system of record to making and managing AI agents to automating away the busy work, we care deeply about giving our customers more time for their life’s work. About the role You’ll be responsible for analyzing business processes, identifying areas for improvement, designing and implementing solutions to unlock our sales team. Your knowledge of sales processes will be instrumental in implementing critical systems to unlock our business goals. In this role, you’ll partner closely with RevOps, Sales Ops, Deal Desk, Finance, and Legal to turn real deal friction into durable systems: clearer processes, smarter automation, and a quoting experience that helps the team move faster with confidence. This role is based in San Francisco. We work from our offices on Mondays, Tuesdays and Thursdays (our Anchor Days) because we do our best thinking and building together in person. We’re looking for someone who’s excited to work alongside the team during those days. What you’ll achieve Analyze business processes and sales systems to identify improvement opportunities Independently drive tasks and projects end to end (requirements, analysis, design, implementation, thorough testing, launch, and ongoing support). Manage Salesforce configuration through a governed change management process - building and mai

Who Are We? Postman is the world’s leading API platform, used by more than 45 million+ developers and 500,000 organizations, including 98% of the Fortune 500. Postman is helping developers and professionals across the globe build the API-first world by simplifying each step of the API lifecycle and streamlining collaboration—enabling users to create better APIs, faster. The company is headquartered in San Francisco and has offices in Boston, New York, Austin, Tokyo, London, and Bangalore - where Postman was founded. Postman is privately held, with funding from Battery Ventures, BOND, Coatue, CRV, Insight Partners, and Nexus Venture Partners. Learn more at postman.com or connect with Postman on X via @getpostman. P.S: We highly recommend reading The "API-First World" graphic novel to understand the bigger picture and our vision at Postman. The Opportunity We are seeking a Digital Native Account Executive with proven experience selling into upper mid-market / lower end of enterprise organizations, particularly within the DevOps ecosystem. This role requires a strategic hunter mindset with the ability to land and expand within strategic accounts, navigate complex sales cycles, and build strong customer partnerships that grow into multi-six and seven figure deal relationships. You will own a targeted list of named accounts and be responsible for building deep account penetration strategies, collaborating with technical teams, and delivering value across multiple stakeholders. What You'll Do Own the full sales cycle for named accounts, from prospecting through close and expansion. Drive land-and-expand motions. Manage large deal sizes, with the ability to close larger, strategic deals. Exceed an annual quota through consistent pipeline generation, deal progression, and account growth. Partner cross-functionally with Sales Engineering, Customer Success, and Product teams to deliver tailored solutions. Develop executive-level relationships with DevOps leaders, CIOs, and en

Who Are We? Postman is the world’s leading API platform, used by more than 45 million+ developers and 500,000 organizations, including 98% of the Fortune 500. Postman is helping developers and professionals across the globe build the API-first world by simplifying each step of the API lifecycle and streamlining collaboration—enabling users to create better APIs, faster. The company is headquartered in San Francisco and has offices in Boston, New York, Austin, Tokyo, London, and Bangalore - where Postman was founded. Postman is privately held, with funding from Battery Ventures, BOND, Coatue, CRV, Insight Partners, and Nexus Venture Partners. Learn more at postman.com or connect with Postman on X via @getpostman. P.S: We highly recommend reading The "API-First World" graphic novel to understand the bigger picture and our vision at Postman. The Opportunity We are seeking a highly analytical and detail-oriented Sales Compensation Analyst to own the administration and reconciliation of our sales incentive programs. You will be the primary engine behind our commission cycles, ensuring all employees on variable compensation plans are paid accurately and on time. Your mission is to bring absolute data integrity to our compensation process. You will bridge the gap between CRM data and payroll outputs, resolve discrepancies, and serve as a trusted partner to both Finance and the Sales organization. What You’ll Do Monthly audit of CRM bookings vs. commission workbooks and tools to verify deal values, credits, and contract terms. Administrative Workflow: Manage the end to end commission lifecycle, from data extraction to final payroll delivery. Dispute Resolution: Serve as the first point of contact for commission inquiries, investigating and resolving rep payout questions. Data Hygiene & Auditing: Conduct regular audits of CRM opportunity stages and account ownership to ensure the commission system aligns with current business reality. System Maintenance: Maintain a