Strategic Account Executive in United States

About the Team OpenAI’s GTM Partnerships team builds a strategic, global partner ecosystem that accelerates customer success, enables enterprise AI adoption, and drives durable growth in support of OpenAI’s mission. Cloud partners are central to how customers discover, purchase, deploy, and scale OpenAI solutions. We work across cloud providers and their field, product, marketplace, technical, and partner organizations to reduce friction for customers and create repeatable paths from initial interest to production impact. The team collaborates closely with Sales, Technical Success, Product, Engineering, Finance, Legal, Security, Marketing, Operations, and Customer Success to turn strategic cloud relationships into measurable customer and commercial outcomes. About the Role We are hiring a Partner Director, GTM Cloud Partnerships to shape and execute OpenAI’s go-to-market strategy with strategic cloud partners. You will own senior relationships across a portfolio of cloud providers and develop joint business plans that expand customer access to OpenAI’s products, generate partner-sourced opportunities, and accelerate enterprise adoption. You will translate company-level partnerships into practical field motions spanning account planning, co-selling, cloud marketplaces, customer procurement, technical enablement, solution development, and executive engagement. This is a highly strategic and hands-on role. Success requires executive presence, strong commercial judgment, cloud ecosystem expertise, and the operating discipline to coordinate complex initiatives across multiple partners, regions, and internal teams. The ideal candidate can move fluidly between long-term strategy and the detailed execution required to deliver measurable results. This role is based in San Francisco. We use a hybrid work model of three days in the office per week. In this role, you will: Own the strategic and commercial relationships with a top global cloud partner, establishing strong alignm

About the Role OpenAI is seeking a senior individual contributor to help shape and execute some of our most complex and high-impact commercial opportunities. As AI becomes increasingly important to how organizations operate, the ability to translate sophisticated products and commercial structures into clear, compelling customer narratives is a strategic advantage. In this role, you will serve as an embedded strategic partner to AMER account teams, with a particular focus on high-value, complex, and first-of-kind deals. You will work directly with sellers and cross-functional partners to lead the overall deal strategy, structuring, value narrative, negotiations, and business cases that bring business terms to contractual closure. You will also translate insights and patterns from individual deals into practical frameworks, tools, and resources that improve the quality and consistency of deal execution across the field. This role partners closely with Sales, Pricing, Deal Desk, Strategy, Revenue Operations, Finance, Product, and Legal to help OpenAI move quickly, strengthen proposal quality, and navigate complex commercial opportunities effectively. This role will report to the Americas Deal Strategy Leader. In this role, you will: Partner directly with AMER account teams on complex, high-value, and strategic opportunities, from initial deal strategy through customer proposal, negotiation, and deal closure. Develop deal strategies that bring together customer priorities, commercial considerations, competitive positioning, and OpenAI’s broader business objectives. Create executive- and CFO-ready proposals, ROI analyses, value narratives, and business cases for highly complex and/or first-of-kind deals. Support critical customer and executive conversations by presenting recommendations, business cases, and the rationale behind proposed commercial approaches. Build and maintain practical ROI frameworks, calculators, proposal templates, and value narratives that account

As a Director, Enterprise Sales Engineering, you will lead a team of frontline leaders, driving account strategy, deal execution, operational excellence, and team development across your region. This is a strategic leadership role with regional impact within North America. You will act as a force multiplier by owning team and region performance, shaping execution standards, and partnering closely with Sales leadership to influence go to market strategy, improve outcomes, and scale impact beyond individual deals. 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 in-field execution at a regional level by taking an executive presence role in strategic and high-impact opportunities and providing senior-level stakeholder alignment and technical credibility alongside your team. Develop and operationalize a repeatable formula and methodology that can scale across a large customer base, enabling Datadog to accelerate enterprise growth by illustrating to customers how Datadog’s observability and security solutions quickly, simply, and efficiently deliver measurable business outcomes especially in a world increasingly dominated by Agentic AI. Partner confidently with senior Sales leadership on regional strategy, multi-quarter planning, annual capacity planning, and forecast alignment operating 2-3 quarters ahead to anticipate resourcing needs and business priorities. Oversee consistent, high-quality delivery across technical sales cycles in the region, including evaluations, customer engagements, and deal progression. Lead, coach, and develop a team of Sales Engineering leaders, driving performance, engagement, and long-term career growth through regular feedback and structured development. Hire and onboard top talent across ICs and manager-lev

About the Role As a Sales Manager, Energy, you will build and lead a team of Account Directors focused on strategic growth across utilities, oil and gas, renewables, power generation, and energy services. The team will partner with complex organizations modernizing operations, improving reliability, accelerating the energy transition, and adopting enterprise AI responsibly at scale. You’ll help the team navigate regulated enterprise sales cycles, deepen relationships with business, technology, operations, engineering, security, and risk leaders, and drive adoption of OpenAI’s platform across safety-conscious, asset-intensive organizations. Key Responsibilities Recruit, develop, and lead a high-performing team of Energy Account Directors. Create a strong coaching culture through deal reviews, account strategy sessions, ride-alongs, and structured 1:1s. Define the Energy GTM strategy, including subsector segmentation, account prioritization, partner strategy, executive engagement, and territory planning. Drive disciplined pipeline generation, forecast accuracy, and operational rigor. Guide multi-stakeholder opportunities involving operations, engineering, digital, data, security, legal, risk, procurement, and executive leadership. Help customers translate AI and API capabilities into measurable outcomes across asset and field operations, grid and generation planning, engineering knowledge, customer service, commercial workflows, and enterprise productivity. Partner with Product, Solutions Architecture, Technical Success, Legal, Security, Finance, and policy experts to support responsible deployment. Provide structured feedback on customer requirements, integration blockers, reliability and governance needs, and emerging industry trends. What We’re Looking For 15+ years of enterprise sales, GTM, or sales leadership experience. Proven experience building and scaling enterprise sales teams responsible for complex strategic accounts and large revenue targets. Deep underst

The Chief of Staff is a high-visibility leadership role responsible for the operational success of the SVP, General Manager’s organization. Acting as a strategic partner, you will ensure the business operates at peak velocity by driving key initiatives, improving organizational effectiveness, and aligning teams around strategic priorities. You will translate high-level goals into clear execution plans across the business, providing clarity in a fast-paced, complex environment. This role is designed for a seasoned operator who excels at driving accountability among senior leaders and building the systems necessary to scale a SaaS business. You will identify operational gaps, mitigate risks before they impact the bottom line, and act as an extension of leadership—prioritizing, executing, and communicating critical projects to enable the executive team to operate at maximum efficiency. ** Please note that this opportunity is located in New York, NY, and requires this hire to work from our office 4 days a week. ** As a Chief of Staff You Can Expect: Drive the Operating Cadence: Design and manage the GM's leadership meetings, QBRs, and planning cycles to keep the team aligned and hitting KPIs. Force Execution: Partner with Sales, Customer Success, Account Management, Implementation, Product leaders to unblock projects and hold senior stakeholders accountable for deliverables. Own Plan Integrity: Keep the team aligned to the quarterly and annual plan, hold leaders accountable for the commitments behind it, and flag risk early, before it shows up as a miss in the business review. Drive Alignment & Follow-Through: Ensure decisions and commitments made in leadership meetings are clearly communicated across the team, tracked to completion, and actually followed through on, closing the loop between what was decided and what gets done. Prioritize Ruthlessly: Act as a surrogate for the GM in high-level meetings, surfacing critical risks early and filtering out noise to focus

We are now looking for a dynamic business leader to grow NVIDIA's Host Networking business for AI infrastructure with AI Labs and Hyperscalers! This leader will drive strategic direction, customer engagement, and multi-year growth for networking products such as NVIDIA DPUs, SuperNICs, and their associated software and ecosystem. Success in this role will be measured by the level of adoption and integration of our Host Networking products with our end customers' workflows and workloads. Success is contingent upon building trust with executives, architects, product leaders, and platform teams across NVIDIA and our largest customers. This leader will lead the go-to-market motion, connecting customer AI factory needs to NVIDIA's networking portfolio and aligning product, sales, engineering, architecture, marketing, and partner teams to secure design wins and scale deployments. What you'll be doing: Identify, develop and close strategic design wins for DPU and SuperNIC with top AI labs and Cloud Service Providers! Build and implement the segment sales growth strategy for host networking across hyperscaler and frontier model AI labs building large scale AI infrastructure. Define customer-specific DPU and SuperNIC value propositions and deployment motions, and lead a matrixed team across product, architects, engineering, sales and marketing teams. Promote NVIDIA host networking products externally and internally, positioning their value for AI workloads and other infrastructure products from NVIDIA, in a collection of use-cases in Networking, Security and Storage. Build a robust opportunity pipeline with segment sales and account teams, including account mapping, customer requirements, proof points, executive engagement, and partner alignment. Track and drive quarterly business reporting, forecast accuracy, design-win progress, roadmap asks, and

About the Team OpenAI’s User Operations team shepherds our customers’ adoption of AI and ensures that our customers' product experience is nothing short of exceptional. We are building the very first post-AGI support team. We resolve complex issues, provide technical guidance, and support customers in maximizing value and adoption from deploying our products. We work closely with Sales, Technical Success, Product, Engineering and others, to deliver the best possible experience to our customers at scale. OpenAI's customers represent a range of diverse backgrounds and maturity, from early-stage startups to established global enterprises. Within Premium Support, Dedicated Support Engineers combine deep technical troubleshooting with an enduring understanding of our most strategic customers’ architectures, critical workloads, and business priorities. Through proactive reliability work, ownership during incidents, and AI-powered support capabilities, we help customers operate successfully as their use of OpenAI grows. About the Role We’re looking for a senior leader to build and scale our Dedicated Support Engineering function globally. You will define its strategy, build the team, and establish how we deliver technically rigorous, proactive support for customers running some of the most complex and consequential workloads on OpenAI. This role combines organizational leadership, technical judgment, and executive customer engagement. You will establish a model in which DSEs develop deep customer context, independently advance difficult investigations, anticipate operational risks, and drive issues through resolution. You will also turn what the team learns into improvements that benefit customers across OpenAI. You should bring experience building technical organizations that maintain long-term accountability for enterprise customers. Leadership in Technical Account Management, enterprise Support Engineering, or a comparable technical customer function is particularly rel

Channel Partner Practice Development Manager Description - Job Summary This Channel MPS (Managed Print Services) Partner Practice Development Manager is responsible for maintaining partner account plans for sales growth, sharing complex information regarding the organization’s offerings, and fostering strong partner relationships. The role handles intricate contract negotiations, tailors solutions to customer needs, and converts leads into joint sales activities while managing the sales funnel. The role recruits new partners, and conducts training sessions to ensure effective representation of the organization. Responsibilities • Serves as the expert to the partners for advanced information regarding the organization’s offerings, promotions, and configuration. • Builds strong relationships with partners at various organizational levels, including senior executives, to strengthen collaboration and align business goals. • Handles contract negotiations and manages terms and conditions to ensure they meet both partner and organization expectations. • Collaborates with partners to tailor solutions that meet specific customer needs, including customization of products and services to align with client requirements. • Collaborates with seniors to develop and maintain partner account plans to promote sales growth. • Identifies new partners that align with the organization's strategic objectives and foster their integration into the sales ecosystem. • Transforms potential leads into joint sales activities with partners while managing the organization’s sales funnel. • Works with a team of sales professionals to achieve assigned quotas while engaging in transactional and relationship selling in adherence to legal requirements. • Conducts training sessions for partners on the latest products, services, and industry trend

Channel Partner Practice Development Manager Description - Job Summary This Channel MPS (Managed Print Services) Partner Practice Development Manager is responsible for maintaining partner account plans for sales growth, sharing complex information regarding the organization’s offerings, and fostering strong partner relationships. The role handles intricate contract negotiations, tailors solutions to customer needs, and converts leads into joint sales activities while managing the sales funnel. The role recruits new partners, and conducts training sessions to ensure effective representation of the organization. Responsibilities • Serves as the expert to the partners for advanced information regarding the organization’s offerings, promotions, and configuration. • Builds strong relationships with partners at various organizational levels, including senior executives, to strengthen collaboration and align business goals. • Handles contract negotiations and manages terms and conditions to ensure they meet both partner and organization expectations. • Collaborates with partners to tailor solutions that meet specific customer needs, including customization of products and services to align with client requirements. • Collaborates with seniors to develop and maintain partner account plans to promote sales growth. • Identifies new partners that align with the organization's strategic objectives and foster their integration into the sales ecosystem. • Transforms potential leads into joint sales activities with partners while managing the organization’s sales funnel. • Works with a team of sales professionals to achieve assigned quotas while engaging in transactional and relationship selling in adherence to legal requirements. • Conducts training sessions for partners on the latest products, services, and industry trend

About the Team OpenAI’s mission is to ensure the responsible and widespread adoption of artificial intelligence. In support of that mission, the Sales team partners closely with customers 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 As an Agency Partner, you will be responsible for driving new and expanded advertising revenue through strategic relationships with leading agency holding companies.. You will help agencies and their clients leverage OpenAI’s platform to connect with highly engaged audiences in innovative and responsible ways. This role is focused on building and growing agency partnerships that unlock opportunities across a broad portfolio of advertisers. You will own the agency partnership strategy—from executive relationship development and joint business planning to agency education and portfolio activation—establishing OpenAI as a trusted partner and driving sustained adoption and revenue growth across agencies and their clients. You’ll partner closely with Client Partners, Account Managers, and cross-functional teams to coordinate agency engagement, identify priority advertiser opportunities, and ensure consistent execution across your agency portfolio. This role is based in our New York City office, and candidates are expected to work from the office three days per week. In this role, you will: Develop and execute strategic agency partnership plans that increase adoption, unlock advertiser investment, and drive revenue growth across agency holding companies and independent agencies. Develop and execute strategic agency plans that drive advertiser adoption, client ROI, and long-term revenue growth. Build and maintain relationships with senior agency decision-makers across investment, strategy, planning, innovation, data, commer

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,

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. As a SLED Customer Success Manager (CSM), Public Sector at Vanta you will help manage our most complex, high-valued State Government, Local Government, and Education (SLED) accounts. You will act as a trusted advisor, driving value realization, retention, and growth through strategic planning, executive alignment, and cross-functional collaboration. Vanta has a kind and talented team, and while some have prior security experience, many have been successful at Vanta without it. Vanta for Government is Vanta’s AI-powered platform that helps government agencies and vendors protect mission data, manage risk, streamline compliance, and build trust – faster and with less manual work. Vanta’s public sector efforts are growing quickly and this is an exciting opportunity to join a new team dedicated explicitly to public sector sales and customer success. We are looking for a passionate, results-oriented, and collaborative CSM who has a proven track-record of managing high-value public sector accounts, leading to customer satisfaction, renewals, and expansion. What you’ll do as SLED Customer Success Manager, Public Sector: Manage high-touch, SLED accounts serving as the primary client advocate and success owner. Drive cross-functional coordination across multiple teams – including Product, Engineering, Security, and Legal – to ensure the successful onboarding, delivery, and implementation of Vanta at key accounts. Serve as a trusted advisor to customers, aligning Vanta’s roadmap and security outcomes with mission needs, industry trends, and executive-level priorities. Partner with Public Sector Account Managers to co-build and execute mu

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 Client Services 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 pipeline hygiene, risk surfac

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

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. Snowflake is looking for an accomplished AI Deployment Specialist to lead the sales of our custom AI solutions. This is a strategic position that will involve close collaboration with the field organization, Product Sales team, Industry team, and AI Product team. The goal is to ensure successful customer adoption of Snowflake's AI and Machine Learning capabilities, achieved through custom-developed solutions that address critical and transformative business problems, delivering significant ROI. RESPONSIBILITIES : Achieve pipeline generation and revenue targets for allocated accounts and/or territory on a quarterly and annual basis by developing a sales strategy in the allocated territory with a target account list. Execute tailored sales plays to capture market opportunities in AI/ML, helping customers optimize their use of Snowflake's AI platform. Work directly with customers to understand their AI/ML needs, communicating insights to inform Snowflake’s product roadmap and ensuring alignment with customer requirements. Become an expert in Snowflake’s Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning solutions and provide executive-level insights to customers and partners, guiding strategic discussions that emphasize the value of Snowflake’s AI/ML capabilities and solutions to ad