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📍 San Francisco, California, United States· Full-time
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About the Team OpenAI’s mission is to ensure that general-purpose artificial intelligence benefits all of humanity. Our Communications team includes External Communications, Internal Communications, and other strategic communications functions. This team’s ethos is to support OpenAI's mission and goals by clearly and authentically explaining our technology, values, and approach to safely building powerful AI. About the Role We’re looking for a senior communications leader to shape how OpenAI communicates about its emerging ads and monetization business. This person will define the global narrative, lead communications for major product and business milestones, and build sustained programs that explain our approach to ads and monetization clearly and credibly. The role will be central to showing how OpenAI can develop advertising experiences that are useful to people, valuable to businesses, transparent in how they work and consistent with our mission. You will work closely with Product, Go-to-Market, Marketing, Policy, Legal and Partnerships to anticipate opportunities and risks, develop integrated campaigns and help the business scale with trust. You will also serve as a trusted advisor to senior leaders on positioning, reputation, media strategy and the broader industry conversation. This is both a strategic and hands-on role. The right person will be comfortable defining a long-term communications strategy, building the systems and relationships needed to execute it, and personally leading through high-profile launches and fast-moving issues. This role reports to the VP of Communications and is based in San Francisco, CA. We use a hybrid work model of four days per week in the office and offer relocation assistance In this role, you will: Define and lead communications strategy for OpenAI’s ads and monetization initiatives, from global narrative development through launches and sustained storytelling. Build a clear, differentiated story about how OpenAI approache

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📍 San Francisco, California, United States· Full-time
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About the Team Security is at the foundation of OpenAI’s mission to ensure that artificial general intelligence benefits all of humanity. The Security team protects OpenAI’s technology, people, and products. We are technical in what we build but are operational in how we do our work, and are committed to supporting all products and research at OpenAI. Our Security team tenets include: prioritizing for impact, enabling researchers, preparing for future transformative technologies, and engaging a robust security culture. About the Role OpenAI is seeking to build an investigative capability for Secure Manufacturing & Stealth programs. The risk surface for unreleased products, prototypes, confidential hardware, infrastructure, supply chain, manufacturing, and launch-readiness efforts spans employees, vendors, suppliers, logistics partners, physical movement of assets, procurement records, manufacturing workflows, access systems, device telemetry, and adversarial collection. This role is intended to build and run investigations across that specialized environment. In this role, you will: Lead complex SMS investigations to proactively identify and mitigate risks to unreleased products, prototypes, confidential hardware, secure manufacturing programs, and launch-readiness efforts. Investigate unauthorized disclosure, suspected leaks, insider risk, supplier compromise, vendor misconduct, theft, diversion, tampering, counterfeiting, surveillance, adversarial collection, and suspicious activity involving sensitive programs. Connect digital evidence, physical access activity, supply chain records, manufacturing data, vendor behavior, employee activity, collaboration metadata, procurement records, shipping data, and OSINT into clear findings and risk-reduction actions. Conduct proactive threat hunting to surface early indicators of compromise, collection, leakage, or insider activity affecting sensitive programs. Develop investigative playbooks, evidence-handling standards,

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📍 San Francisco, California, United States· Full-time
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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

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📍 San Francisco, California, United States· Full-time
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About the Team The Treasury team is responsible for protecting liquidity, enabling scale, maintaining strong controls, and helping the company operate with clarity and resilience. We work across finance and operational partners to ensure funds move safely, visibility remains high, and Treasury infrastructure keeps pace with a fast-moving business. As hands-on operators and builders, we combine financial judgment with AI, automation, and data to solve problems faster, strengthen controls, and continuously improve how Treasury operates. About the Role We’re looking for a Treasury Manager to own and execute critical activities across OpenAI’s global treasury operations, including cash management, payments, bank account management, forecasting support, controls, and reporting. Beyond day-to-day operations, this person will support Treasury leadership on high-impact projects such as M&A integrations, new legal entity formation, and geographic and currency expansion. They’ll also help build scalable, AI-enabled systems, workflows, and controls for a rapidly growing global business. This is an individual contributor role with broad scope, spanning operational ownership and building an AI-native Treasury function. This role is based in our San Francisco HQ. 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 core global treasury operations across cash positioning, payments, bank account management, portal administration, forecasting support, and FBAR preparation. Coordinate day-to-day execution for intercompany funding, settlements, investment operations, letters of credit, guarantees, treasury close, and related accounting handoffs. Automate and scale treasury workflows for request intake, approvals, payment tracking, bank account changes, KYC follow-up, access reviews, evidence collection, and issue resolution. Identify recurring processes, manual pain points, duplicate work, control

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📍 San Francisco, California, United States· Full-time
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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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📍 San Francisco, California, United States· Full-time
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By applying to this role, you will be considered for Research Scientist roles across all teams at OpenAI. About the Role As a Research Scientist here, you will develop innovative machine learning techniques and advance the research agenda of the team you work on, while also collaborating with peers across the organization. We are looking for people who want to discover simple, generalizable ideas that work well even at large scale, and form part of a broader research vision that unifies the entire company. We expect you to: Have a track record of coming up with new ideas or improving upon existing ideas in machine learning, demonstrated by accomplishments such as first author publications or projects Possess the ability to own and pursue a research agenda, including choosing impactful research problems and autonomously carrying out long-running projects Be excited about OpenAI’s approach to research Nice to have: Interested in and thoughtful about the impacts of AI technology Past experience in creating high-performance implementations of deep learning algorithms About OpenAI OpenAI is an AI research and deployment company dedicated to ensuring that general-purpose artificial intelligence benefits all of humanity. We push the boundaries of the capabilities of AI systems and seek to safely deploy them to the world through our products. AI is an extremely powerful tool that must be created with safety and human needs at its core, and to achieve our mission, we must encompass and value the many different perspectives, voices, and experiences that form the full spectrum of humanity. We are an equal opportunity employer, and we do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, age, veteran status, disability, genetic information, or other applicable legally protected characteristic. For additional information, please see OpenAI’s Affirmative Action and Equal Employment Opportunity Policy Statement . Background checks for

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📍 San Francisco, California, United States· Full-time
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About the Team The Corporate Security team is responsible for safeguarding all OpenAI employees and executives. Our mission is to create a secure, resilient environment that allows our teams to focus on their work without risk or disruption. We manage physical security operations across offices, events, and global initiatives, partnering closely with internal teams and external agencies to stay ahead of emerging threats. About the Role As a Corporate Security Manager , based in our San Francisco office, you will lead day-to-day security operations while supporting the development of global physical security strategies, policies, and procedures. You will work cross-functionally to maintain a strong and adaptive security posture, manage vendor security teams, and serve as a key liaison with law enforcement and security partners. This position requires hands-on experience in corporate security operations. This role typically involves 4–5 days in the office each week . In this role, you will: Office Security: Develop, implement, and manage physical security measures, including policies, systems, and vendor relationships, to protect employees and visitors in the San Francisco offices. International Offices: Support the International Director to safeguard OpenAI’s global footprint by assisting with security policy writing, consistent with US and main office policy and procedures, including ongoing mitigation strategies. Events: Support local events when needed and work with the resilience team on updating policy and procedures that involve the GSOC’s support. Partnerships & Stakeholder Engagement: Establish and strengthen relationships with local law enforcement agencies, peer security organizations, and other external partners to stay current on emerging risks. Policy Development & Compliance: Be the primary point of contact for the Corporate Security Operations team for global policy and procedures. Support and contribute to all the Corp Sec pillars as needed, f

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📍 San Francisco, California, United States· Full-time
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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

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📍 San Francisco, California, United States· Full-time
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About The Team The Data Understanding team is responsible for creating the high quality datasets and their quantized representation for OpenAI. This includes synthesizing data, building VQ representations, and processing, filtering, deduplication, quality control, and tokenization so it can be used effectively in big model training runs. About The Role We're looking to advance how OpenAI builds and understands pretraining data at scale. You'll treat data quality and curation as core research problems: developing new methods to select, combine, and transform data; creating datasets that improve model capabilities; and designing rigorous experiments to understand how data choices and interventions affect model learning and downstream behavior. You'll work closely with frontier models and web-scale data to build evidence for which approaches work and why, then translate successful research into scalable data processing pipelines We Expect You To Have a strong track record of new or improved ML ideas, through publications, projects, or applied research. Own and drive a research agenda, from choosing the right problems to carrying long-running work through to impact. Be excited by OpenAI’s empirical, collaborative approach to research. Nice To Have Thoughtfulness about AI’s impact, including privacy, provenance, and data quality. Experience building high-performance deep learning or large-scale data processing systems. About OpenAI OpenAI is an AI research and deployment company dedicated to ensuring that general-purpose artificial intelligence benefits all of humanity. We push the boundaries of the capabilities of AI systems and seek to safely deploy them to the world through our products. AI is an extremely powerful tool that must be created with safety and human needs at its core, and to achieve our mission, we must encompass and value the many different perspectives, voices, and experiences that form the full spectrum of humanity. We are an equal opportunity employer

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📍 San Francisco, California, United States· Full-time
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About the Team OpenAI, in close collaboration with our capital partners, is embarking on a journey to build the world’s most advanced AI infrastructure ecosystem. The Infrastructure team is central to this mission, setting the core strategy and implementing the vision. From site selection to deployment to operations, this team sits at the intersection of commercial, technical, and operational domains, interacting with experts and executives inside and outside of OpenAI. We design and operate mission-critical facilities that support cutting-edge AI workloads at scale. About the Role We are seeking a Facilities Operations Lead to support the commissioning, deployment, and long-term operation of our next-generation AI data centers. This role bridges the interface between data center construction and hardware landing, ensuring seamless integration of mission-critical infrastructure with hardware deployment timelines. You will define and execute commissioning plans, support infrastructure bring-up, and take ownership of operations and maintenance for cutting-edge, large-scale, AI data centers. You will collaborate closely with design, construction, and hardware teams to define repeatable processes for new data center builds and lead hands-on operations to uphold the performance and reliability of our deployed infrastructure. Key Responsibilities Define and execute sequences of operations, commissioning steps, and bring-up processes for mission-critical data center facilities. Interface with the design and hardware teams to define deployment procedures tailored to each data center and hardware configuration. Oversee installation, commissioning, and operational readiness of large-scale data center campuses. Manage monitoring, maintenance, and quality control of the data center infrastructure, including high-performance liquid cooling systems. Develop on-site operations staffing strategy. Develop and enforce procedures for planed and unplanned downtime and SLAs for critical

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📍 San Francisco, California, United States· Full-time
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About the Team The Business Data Science team uses data and analytics to optimize business performance, drive growth, and foster meaningful partnerships, with the goal of ensuring the sustained and impactful expansion of OpenAI's initiatives to maximize the benefits of AGI for all of humanity. We partner with Sales (GTM), Marketing, Partnerships, Support, Finance, Product, and Growth. About the Role As a member of our Business Data Science team, you will help build a data-driven culture around insight generation, decision making, and strategy at OpenAI. This role is focused on driving customer success within our business products (ChatGPT Team, ChatGPT Enterprise, and API). You will work on projects such as identifying opportunities for interventions within a customer lifecycle to drive activation & onboarding, identifying target audiences for new feature launches, and measuring the efficacy of emails, events, and other interventions to drive ongoing engagement with our products. This role is based in San Francisco, CA or New York, NY. 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: Embed with our Customer Success organization as a trusted partner, uncovering new ways to drive customer adoption and engagement of our business products. Establish key metrics, run experiments, and perform analysis to help us understand the incrementality of our efforts to drive adoption/engagement. Proactively surface insights and opportunities to drive engagement and growth. Build tools and systems for stakeholders to self-serve routine data and insights freeing up time to work on more leveraged analyses. Become an expert in OpenAI’s data and systems. Through partnership with Data Eng, Finance and other business teams, you will self-serve all the underlying data for our business and derive insights from them. Partner with other data scientists across the company to share knowledge and continually

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📍 San Francisco, California, United States· Full-time
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About The Team The Data Understanding team is responsible for creating the high quality datasets and their quantized representation for OpenAI. This includes synthesizing multimodal data, building VQ representations, and processing, filtering, deduplication, quality control, and tokenization so it can be used effectively in big model training runs. About The Role We’re looking to advance how OpenAI prepares, curates, synthesizes and understands multimodal data at scale. You’ll work on research and production problems like synthesizing multimodal content (images, audio, and video) and their supervisions, improving noisy data pipelines, building better quality filters, using models to automate data prep, and measuring whether changes in the dataset improve model performance. We Expect You To Have a strong track record of new or improved ML ideas, through publications, projects, or applied research. Own and drive a research agenda, from choosing the right multimodal data problems to carrying long-running work through to impact. Be excited by OpenAI’s empirical, collaborative approach to research. Nice To Have Experience with multimodal learning, audio, vision, video, synthetic data, or data-centric ML. Thoughtfulness about AI’s impact, including privacy, provenance, and data quality. Experience building high-performance deep learning or large-scale data processing systems. About OpenAI OpenAI is an AI research and deployment company dedicated to ensuring that general-purpose artificial intelligence benefits all of humanity. We push the boundaries of the capabilities of AI systems and seek to safely deploy them to the world through our products. AI is an extremely powerful tool that must be created with safety and human needs at its core, and to achieve our mission, we must encompass and value the many different perspectives, voices, and experiences that form the full spectrum of humanity. We are an equal opportunity employer, and we do not discriminate on the basis of

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📍 San Francisco, California, United States· Full-time
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About the Team The Strategic Finance team provides financial insights and guidance to support OpenAI’s long-term goals and strategies. We partner across the business to allocate and deploy our resources for the highest-impact outcomes.  Within Strategic Finance, the B2B team focuses on the financial performance of our products and GTM functions, ensuring tight alignment between financial objectives and company strategy. We partner with leaders across Product, GTM, Research, Partnerships, and Operations to: Drive operational planning, financial forecasting, and performance management. Provide decision-quality insights on product and financial performance to inform strategic resource allocation. Build the “0→1” financial foundations required to scale and accelerate growth. About the Role We are hiring a senior leader in B2B Strategic Finance to build and scale a new pillar within our finance organization. This is a highly visible role that reports into the Head of B2B Strategic Finance and supports some of our most critical executive stakeholders, including our COO, CFO, and CRO, among others on the B2B Leadership Team. This role is ideally based in our San Francisco HQ, but we are open to NYC and Seattle. 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: Drive B2B finance scale and rigor Build and scale core financial infrastructure across the B2B business, including forecasting methodology, variance management, and performance narratives that drive accountability and decision-making velocity. Lead consolidated planning across revenue, gross margin (including compute), and opex for annual budget, forecasts, regular business reviews, and long-range planning. Establish durable management reporting: KPI definitions, dashboards, month-end/quarter-end deliverables, and exec-ready readouts. Partner with Corporate FP&A, Accounting, and Finance Systems/Data to evolve processes and contro

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📍 San Francisco, California, United States· Full-time
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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're looking for a Senior Director/Director, GTM Tools & Technology to own the systems and tooling that power Postman's entire go-to-market organization. This is a strategic leadership role sitting at the intersection of business operations, systems architecture, and AI innovation. You'll be the internal product owner for our GTM tech stack — from Salesforce at its core, to every platform that plugs into it, across both pre-sale and post-sale. You'll define the vision and drive the roadmap for how we use technology and AI to make our GTM teams faster, smarter, and more effective. This role demands both strategic range and operational depth: you'll partner directly with GTM executives across Sales, Marketing, Customer Success, Professional Services, Revenue Operations, and Finance, while leading a team to deliver on a high bar. The standard we're hiring to is high. We want someone who can architect for where Postman is going, not just maintain what exists — and who will lead meaningfully on AI adoption as a first-class mandate. What You’ll Do GTM Systems Strategy & Roadmap Define and execute the roadmap for

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📍 New York, New York, United States· Full-time
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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. About the Team Postman is the world’s leading API platform, used by millions of developers and thousands of organizations to design, build, test, and operate APIs that power modern software. As APIs become the backbone of digital business and AI-driven systems, enterprises rely on Postman to ensure the quality, security, and governance of the APIs that run their most critical applications. Financial services has emerged as one of Postman’s fastest-growing and most strategic customer segments. Banks and financial infrastructure providers are increasingly building platform businesses powered by APIs, enabling everything from payments and open banking to embedded finance and AI-driven services. To accelerate our momentum in this market, we are launching our first vertical-focused sales team dedicated to financial services. We are looking for a Head of Financial Services, Americas to build and lead this effort. This is a senior leadership role reporting directly to the Chief Revenue Officer, based on the East Coast (preferably New York City or Boston). The Opportunity You will lead Postman’s enterprise sales team for the

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