About the Team OpenAI is building the next generation of advertising for an AI-powered world. As AI changes how people discover information, explore possibilities, and make decisions, we believe this presents a huge opportunity for small and medium-sized businesses to connect with customers in new ways. The SMB Ads Marketing team is building this opportunity from the ground up. We define how businesses discover OpenAI’s advertising platform, become successful advertisers, and grow their investment over time. Working closely with Product, Ads Engineering, Data Science, and Sales, we combine customer insight, rigorous experimentation, and fast execution to turn early opportunities into scalable growth. About the Role The SMB Innovation Sales & Strategy Lead will identify, incubate and scale new revenue opportunities across OpenAI’s SMB Ads business. This foundational role combines strategic thinking, analytical rigor and hands-on execution to develop differentiated customer propositions, validate product opportunities and launch new go-to-market programs. Working across Product, Engineering, Sales, Marketing and Data Science, this person will lead initiatives from opportunity assessment through customer discovery, commercial pilots and transition to scale. The remit includes industry-specific opportunities, differentiated customer engagement models and innovative approaches across self-serve, sales-assisted and partner-led channels. The lead will also partner with SMB leadership and the Strategy & Operations team to inform the overall SMB strategy, contributing customer segmentation, commercial insights and evidence from incubation programs to broader planning and investment decisions. In This Role, You Will Identify untapped opportunities across SMB segments, industries, and channels. Build business cases and launch pilots to validate customer demand and commercial potential. Design new acquisition, activation, and expansion programs, including industry-speci
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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 seeking change agents to join our West Coast Commercial Sales Team as an Account Executive . You will be responsible for increasing software sales and driving expansion across a territory of accounts. You will be motivated, passionate, and opportunistic. You will be a proactive and curious member of the commercial sales team, identifying growth opportunities for clients before they identify a need or gap for themselves. You will report to our Regional Manager, Commercial Sales and can be based in our Bellevue, WA office or work remotely from anywhere in the US where Smartsheet is a registered employer. You Will: Build and manage a sales pipeline to meet or exceed software and services sales quotas within your book of business Execute a solution-based sales process including multiple internal and external stakeholders within growth or equivalent accounts (200 to 499 employee size) Develop and prospect new opportunities with existing customers in your territory by analyzing and identifying high-value needs across multiple departments and lines of business Leverage existing relationships to expand Smartsheet's footprint and drive revenue or growth during renewals Expand Smartsheet brand awareness at the c-suite, operational and team level Facilitate and manage partnerships with Sales Engineers, Solutions Consultants and Customer Success teams to support full sales cycle and close business Create and maintain Joint Engagement Plans for strategic solution deals Maintain accurate and up-to-date records in Salesfo
$275.4K – $329K/yr
Fin , now part of Salesforce, is on a mission to help businesses provide perfect customer experiences. Our AI Agent Fin is the highest-performing AI Customer Agent on the market today, enabling businesses to deliver impeccable, always-on customer support across the customer journey, from service, to sales, to ecommerce. Powered by our own AI models, Fin resolves complex customer issues end-to-end across every channel, with minimal set-up and integration. Fin can also be combined with our natively integrated Intercom help desk, giving modern support teams one single system. Together with Salesforce, the #1 AI CRM, where humans with agents drive customer success, we're building the future of customer experience. Here, ambition meets action. Tech meets trust. And innovation isn't a buzzword, it's a way of life. The world of work as we know it is changing, and we're looking for Trailblazers who are passionate about bettering business and the world through AI. Ready to level up your career at the company leading workforce transformation in the agentic era? You're in the right place. Agentforce is the future of AI, and you are the future of Salesforce. What's the opportunity? The role will lead a team of Account Executives primarily responsible for new business revenue in the North America Region. This person will be responsible for segment strategy and planning, building, and running a high performing team. Goals are focused on accelerating logo and revenue growth with a concentration on Fin. We are looking for a highly effective leader who excels at attracting and developing talent, inspiring others, and working cross-functionally to build efficient and customer-centric sales processes. This leader will also play a critical role in developing and executing our value-led sales strategy. For this big challenge, we are looking for an innovative, agile, and resilient Sales Leader to help us write the next chapter in the AI-first customer support space. What will
From $121.5K/yr
WHAT IS BOX? Box (NYSE:BOX) is the leader in Intelligent Content Management. Our platform enables organizations to fuel collaboration, manage the entire content lifecycle, secure critical content, and transform business workflows with enterprise AI. We help companies thrive in the new AI-first era of business. Founded in 2005, Box simplifies work for leading global organizations, including JLL, Morgan Stanley, and Nationwide. Box is headquartered in Redwood City, CA, with offices across the United States, Europe, and Asia. By joining Box, you will have the unique opportunity to continue driving our platform forward. Content powers how we work. It’s the billions of files and information flowing across teams, departments, and key business processes every single day: contracts, invoices, employee records, financials, product specs, marketing assets, and more. Our mission is to bring intelligence to the world of content management and empower our customers to completely transform workflows across their organizations. With the combination of AI and enterprise content, the opportunity has never been greater to transform how the world works together and at Box you will be on the front lines of this massive shift. WHY BOX NEEDS YOU As part of the broader Go-To-Market (GTM) Enablement team, the Commercial Sales Enablement Manager will drive revenue growth by architecting and delivering strategic enablement programs that equip our Small and Medium Business (SMB) and Mid-Market sales teams with the strategies, skills, content, and modern tools necessary to accelerate productivity and win rates. In this role, you will operate as an autonomous subject matter expert and trusted advisor to Commercial Sales leadership. You will develop comprehensive enablement roadmaps, translate global strategic vision into clear "why" context for the field, advocate for segment priorities, and independently determine the methods and procedures to design, execute, and govern high-impact ena
About the Team OpenAI is building the next generation of advertising for an AI-powered world. As AI changes how people discover information, explore possibilities, and make decisions, we believe this presents a huge opportunity for small and medium-sized businesses to connect with customers in new ways. The SMB Ads Marketing team is building this opportunity from the ground up. We define how businesses discover OpenAI’s advertising platform, become successful advertisers, and grow their investment over time. Working closely with Product, Ads Engineering, Data Science, and Sales, we combine customer insight, rigorous experimentation, and fast execution to turn early opportunities into scalable growth. About the Role We are seeking a Growth Marketing Manager to build the web and organic growth engine for SMB advertisers at OpenAI. This is a zero-to-one opportunity to shape how businesses discover our advertising platform, understand its value, and become successful advertisers. You will own the SMB Ads web strategy and experimentation roadmap, combining customer insight, analytical rigor, and product judgment to grow qualified discovery and improve conversion. Your scope spans web experiences, organic search, generative engine optimization (GEO), and the journey from first visit through signup and activation. You will work closely with Product, Design, Ads Engineering, Content, and Data Science to turn opportunities into shipped experiences, operating with the speed and ownership of a startup. In This Role, You Will Own the SMB Ads web strategy and roadmap to grow qualified discovery, signup, and advertiser activation. Grow organic discovery through search, content, and GEO. Test new ways to help businesses find and evaluate OpenAI’s advertising offering. Analyze journeys, funnels, and cohorts to identify conversion barriers and prioritize high-impact improvements. Run experiments across landing pages, messaging, navigation, personalization, offers, and conversion flo
About the Team The B2B Marketing team is responsible for helping businesses understand, adopt, and get value from OpenAI’s products. B2B marketing is a major and growing priority for OpenAI as we scale our work with companies, developers, and institutions around the world. About the Role Within B2B Marketing, Demand Generation builds the integrated, full-funnel engine that connects audience insights, content, field and digital experiences, paid media, lifecycle, and sales follow-through to qualified pipeline. We partner closely with Sales, Partnerships, Product Marketing, Communications, Creative, Web, RevOps, Analytics, and regional teams to create a cohesive customer experience and scale what works. We’re looking for a Senior Mid-Market & SMB Strategist to own demand strategy for two high-velocity segments with distinct customer needs, buying journeys, and sales motions. You’ll translate segment goals into an integrated portfolio of programs, identify the highest-leverage opportunities to improve conversion and pipeline, and align channel teams and GTM partners around a shared audience, message, handoff, and measurement plan. This is a hands-on role for someone who combines strong strategic segmentation with a practical, test-and-learn operating mindset. In this role, you will: Own the Mid-Market and SMB demand strategy, including segment priorities, audience definitions, pipeline goals, program portfolio, investment recommendations, and quarterly roadmap. Translate segment insights into integrated campaigns and always-on journeys across web, email, paid media, webinars, content, partners, and sales-assisted follow-up. Partner with Product Marketing and Sales to define ideal customer profiles, buyer needs, priority use cases, value propositions, and offers for each segment. Work with Web, Lifecycle, RevOps, SDR, and Sales to improve high-intent conversion paths, qualification, routing, speed-to-lead, and follow-up quality. Build a disciplined testing agenda ac
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
About the Team OpenAI is building the next generation of advertising for an AI-powered world. As AI changes how people discover information, explore possibilities, and make decisions, we believe this presents a huge opportunity for small and medium-sized businesses to connect with customers in new ways. The SMB Ads Marketing team is building this opportunity from the ground up. We define how businesses discover OpenAI’s advertising platform, become successful advertisers, and grow their investment over time. Working closely with Product, Ads Engineering, Data Science, and Sales, we combine customer insight, rigorous experimentation, and fast execution to turn early opportunities into scalable growth. About the Role We are looking for an Audience & Content Growth Lead to build the global content and education programs that inspire, inform and engage SMB advertisers. This is a zero-to-one opportunity to shape how small businesses discover and understand advertising with OpenAI. You will turn customer needs, product capabilities and advertiser success stories into compelling content—from webinars and educational video series to case studies, industry-specific playbooks and creator-led programs. The role combines two areas of ownership: developing content specifically for SMB audiences and building effective ways to distribute it. You will lead programs directly while partnering with teams that own web, social, lifecycle marketing, growth and regional channels to reach the right audiences at scale. Success means building an engaged SMB audience and helping businesses move from awareness to understanding, confidence and action. In This Role, You Will Set the global SMB content strategy and editorial roadmap, grounded in customer needs, industry priorities, and advertiser maturity. Create compelling customer stories, case studies, vertical playbooks, guides, videos, and thought leadership that make advertising accessible and actionable. Launch repeatable education pro
About the Team OpenAI is building the next generation of advertising for an AI-powered world. As AI changes how people discover information, explore possibilities, and make decisions, we believe this presents a huge opportunity for small and medium-sized businesses to connect with customers in new ways. The SMB Ads Marketing team is building this opportunity from the ground up. We define how businesses discover OpenAI’s advertising platform, become successful advertisers, and grow their investment over time. Working closely with Product, Ads Engineering, Data Science, and Sales, we combine customer insight, rigorous experimentation, and fast execution to turn early opportunities into scalable growth. About the Role We are seeking a Lifecycle Marketing Manager to build, own, and lead lifecycle programs for SMB advertisers at OpenAI. This is a zero-to-one opportunity to establish the strategy and programs that guide businesses from initial interest and their first campaign to sustained success and growth. You will set the lifecycle strategy, own the program roadmap and performance goals, and lead delivery from customer insight and journey design through launch, measurement, and iteration. Combining behavioral insights, experimentation, and personalized engagement across email, product experiences, education, and other channels, you will build programs that scale with the business. Success requires independent judgment, analytical depth, cross-functional leadership, and hands-on execution. In This Role, You Will Own the lifecycle program portfolio across prospect conversion, activation, retention, repeat spend, reactivation, and expansion. Map advertiser journeys using cohort analysis, product behavior, campaign performance, and customer feedback to identify high-impact growth opportunities. Build segmented, triggered journeys that connect advertiser needs, intent, readiness, and behavior to relevant messages and next steps. Lead prospect nurture and email acquisition
About the Team OpenAI is building the next generation of advertising for an AI-powered world. As AI changes how people discover information, explore possibilities, and make decisions, we believe this presents a huge opportunity for small and medium-sized businesses to connect with customers in new ways. The SMB Ads Marketing team is building this opportunity from the ground up. We define how businesses discover OpenAI’s advertising platform, become successful advertisers, and grow their investment over time. Working closely with Product, Ads Engineering, Data Science, and Sales, we combine customer insight, rigorous experimentation, and fast execution to turn early opportunities into scalable growth. About the Role We are looking for a Scaled Programs Lead to build and scale global programs that engage SMB-focused agencies and other partners helping small and medium-sized businesses grow. This is a zero-to-one opportunity to shape how these audiences discover, understand and adopt OpenAI’s advertising solutions. You will develop programs that build awareness, recruit participants, strengthen their capabilities and help them bring the advertising opportunity to their SMB customers. Your remit will span audience segmentation, recruitment campaigns, education, certification, incentives and co-marketing. You will design and launch new programs, validate their impact and scale the approaches that deliver meaningful results. Working across Marketing, Partnerships, Sales, Product and Operations, you will combine strategic judgment with hands-on execution. As the programs grow, you will build and lead a team to expand them globally. In This Role, You Will Set the global program strategy for SMB-focused agencies and scaled partners, defining priority audiences, growth goals, and investment choices. Build awareness and recruit qualified participants through campaigns and outreach that demonstrate the value of OpenAI’s advertising solutions. Segment agencies and partners by ca
About the Role OpenAI's ads platform is experiencing rapid global scale. As the Lead Data Scientist for SMB Ads Growth, you will architect the analytics function end-to-end—driving strategy across targeting, funnel optimization, and performance forecasting. You will work directly with the SMB Ads Marketing team and your insights will be the primary catalyst for high-stakes decisions across marketing, product, and sales engineering. What You'll Do Full-Funnel Analytics Establish the foundational growth metrics and North Star KPIs for the SMB Ads ecosystem, optimizing the journey from lead acquisition to long-term retention. Diagnose funnel friction points through advanced behavioral analysis and quantify the incremental revenue impact of proposed optimizations. Partner cross-functionally to transform complex data findings into actionable, high-priority roadmaps for product and marketing stakeholders. Targeting, Segmentation & Propensity Modeling Engineer sophisticated propensity models and look-alike frameworks to identify and capture high-LTV SMB advertisers. Own the lifecycle of target list construction, including advanced data enrichment, multi-dimensional prioritization, and granular performance tracking. Develop robust segmentation architectures that power hyper-personalized outreach across paid, partnership, and outsourced (BPO) channels. Synthesize market signals to refine our value proposition, ensuring OpenAI remains a key platform for SMB business growth. Campaign Analytics & Measurement Design and implement rigorous multi-touch attribution and incrementality frameworks to evaluate channel efficacy. Lead the experimental roadmap: formulate hypotheses, execute A/B and multivariate tests, and communicate results to executive leadership. Automate business-critical reporting and dashboards to provide real-time visibility during weekly operating reviews. Forecasting & Planning Build high-fidelity revenue and advertiser growth models to project perfor
About the Team OpenAI's Marketing team helps customers understand, adopt, and get value from OpenAI's products and platform. The SMB Ads Marketing team is building the growth engine for small and medium-sized business advertisers: helping them discover the platform, sign up, launch campaigns, understand performance, and grow spend over time. We take a data-driven approach to understanding customer needs, market dynamics, and funnel behavior. We partner closely with Product, Engineering, Data Science, Sales, Partnerships, Marketing Operations, Design, and Communications to create a cohesive end-to-end advertiser experience and help businesses unlock value from OpenAI's advertising platform. About the Role We are hiring a Growth Marketing Manager, SMB Ads to help build and execute high-velocity growth programs for small business advertisers. This person will work across acquisition, activation, lifecycle, and conversion, with an initial focus on helping advertisers move from interest and sign-up to first meaningful spend & retention over time This is a hands-on growth role for someone who loves turning ideas into shipped experiments. You will build campaigns, lifecycle journeys, landing page tests, messaging tests, audience experiments, AI-assisted workflows, reporting improvements, and practical conversion programs. As the SMB Ads business grows, this role may continue to support acquisition and activation and expand deeper into same-store growth, lifecycle, retention, and repeat spend. In This Role, You Will: Execute growth experiments across acquisition, activation, lifecycle, and early retention. Build email, in-product, landing page, audience, messaging, and offer tests that help SMB advertisers reach first spend and repeat value. Use AI tools to prototype marketing assets, automate workflows, analyze funnel data, generate creative variations, and build internal growth systems. Partner with Growth, Product, Engineering, Data Science, and Marketing Operations
From $135.5K/yr
WHAT IS BOX? Box (NYSE:BOX) is the leader in Intelligent Content Management. Our platform enables organizations to fuel collaboration, manage the entire content lifecycle, secure critical content, and transform business workflows with enterprise AI. We help companies thrive in the new AI-first era of business. Founded in 2005, Box simplifies work for leading global organizations, including JLL, Morgan Stanley, and Nationwide. Box is headquartered in Redwood City, CA, with offices across the United States, Europe, and Asia. By joining Box, you will have the unique opportunity to continue driving our platform forward. Content powers how we work. It’s the billions of files and information flowing across teams, departments, and key business processes every single day: contracts, invoices, employee records, financials, product specs, marketing assets, and more. Our mission is to bring intelligence to the world of content management and empower our customers to completely transform workflows across their organizations. With the combination of AI and enterprise content, the opportunity has never been greater to transform how the world works together and at Box you will be on the front lines of this massive shift. WHY BOX NEEDS YOU As an Account Executive on our Small Medium Business team, your role involves identifying new opportunities with potential clients and our current customer base. This includes prospecting, conducting discovery calls and demos, negotiating deals, and closing new business across all industries in the Small Medium Business segment (1-500 employees). Additionally, you will conduct thorough research to understand customers' unique business challenges and how Box can provide value. You'll also drive the sales process by influencing key stakeholders both internally and externally while developing a comprehensive territory plan that covers all aspects of your target market. Lastly, scheduling visits to meet customers face-to-face with
About the Team OpenAI is building the next generation of advertising for an AI-powered world. As AI changes how people discover information, explore possibilities, and make decisions, we believe this presents a huge opportunity for small and medium-sized businesses to connect with customers in new ways. The SMB Ads Marketing team is building this opportunity from the ground up. We define how businesses discover OpenAI’s advertising platform, become successful advertisers, and grow their investment over time. Working closely with Product, Ads Engineering, Data Science, and Sales, we combine customer insight, rigorous experimentation, and fast execution to turn early opportunities into scalable growth. About the Role We are hiring a Lead, Ads Prospecting & Growth Intelligence to build the intelligence and orchestration platform powering OpenAI’s ads business. This person will help us identify the right companies and people, understand why they are relevant, determine the right next action, and learn from what happens afterward. Own the prospecting function for the ads business, serving SMB Ads while building a foundation reusable across segments. Set the vision, operating model, roadmap, platform choices, business rules, adoption, and outcomes; and partner with Ads Engineering, Data Science, and internal platform teams. Decide what to build in-house, enable through internal platforms, or deliver through selected vendors and partners. In This Role, You Will Lead the function’s strategy, roadmap, operating model, and adoption. Connect platform investments to measurable advertiser and business outcomes. Define a unified prospect, account, contact, and advertiser data model. Establish standards for identity, data quality, provenance, freshness, confidence, and consent. Combine market, intent, behavioral, product, CRM, campaign, and customer-success signals to improve targeting and customer engagement. Design enrichment and verification workflows. Evaluate in-house cap
About the Team OpenAI’s Pricing team sits at the center of product, go-to-market, finance, and strategy. We define how OpenAI packages, prices, and scales access to our products across consumer, SMB, and enterprise customers, turning deeply technical product usage and market signal into company-level decisions. We’re looking for a senior Data Scientist to be the first dedicated data science hire on the Pricing team. This is a rare zero-to-one role with direct exposure to OpenAI’s CFO, Head of Pricing, and senior leaders across Product and GTM. You will help build the analytical foundation for pricing at OpenAI, shape executive decisions, and define what excellent pricing data science looks like. About the Role As a founding Data Scientist for Pricing, you will design the analyses, models, experiments, and decision frameworks that guide pricing strategy across OpenAI’s business. You’ll work side-by-side with the CFO, Head of Pricing, and senior leaders across Product and GTM on ambiguous, high-leverage questions where simple reporting is not enough, translating customer behavior, product usage, revenue outcomes, and market dynamics into clear recommendations. This role combines hands-on technical depth with executive-ready storytelling. You should be excited to build from first principles, operate with high independence, and influence decisions that shape how OpenAI grows and serves customers around the world. In This Role, You Will Serve as a senior analytical partner to the CFO, Head of Pricing, Product, and GTM leaders on pricing and monetization decisions. Build the analytical foundation for pricing across consumer, SMB, and enterprise segments, from exploratory analysis to repeatable decision systems. Design and execute analyses that connect customer behavior, product usage, conversion, retention, revenue outcomes, and pricing strategy. Develop models, algorithms, experiments, and decision frameworks for complex pricing, packaging, discounting, and willingness-t
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