AWS Specialist Seller, Strategic Pursuits

About the team

OpenAI’s mission is to build safe artificial general intelligence (AGI) that benefits all of humanity. Achieving this requires bringing together world-class scientists, engineers, and business leaders to translate frontier research into real-world impact.

Within OpenAI, the Go-to-Market organization helps customers understand, adopt, and scale our products across their businesses. The team includes Sales, Solutions, Support, Marketing, Partnerships, and Strategic Pursuits professionals who work together to bring the benefits of AI to organizations globally.

You might thrive in this role if you:

• Have 15+ years of experience in enterprise sales, strategic business development, cloud partnerships, or complex technology go-to-market roles.
• Have a strong track record of shaping and closing large-scale enterprise technology deals.
• Bring experience in AI, GenAI, cloud, data, enterprise software, or professional services sales.
• Have worked in overlay sales, specialist seller, strategic pursuits, or partner-led co-sell environments.
• Understand AWS commercial models, enterprise account planning, cloud commitments, and partner operating rhythms.
• Can engage credibly with CIOs, CTOs, CDOs, business leaders, procurement teams, and partner executives.
• Demonstrate strong commercial judgment in opportunity qualification, deal strategy, and escalation management.
• Thrive in ambiguity and can build new operating motions from the ground up.
• Communicate clearly and synthesize technical, customer, and commercial inputs into actionable recommendations.
• Have prior experience at AWS, another major cloud provider, a leading enterprise software company, or a high-growth AI company.
• Understand partner-led sales motions involving hyperscalers, GSIs, or strategic technology partners.
• Bring familiarity with enterprise AI use cases across industries such as financial services, healthcare, retail, manufacturing, technology, energy, or public sector.

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.

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