Sales Development Leader - Tokyo

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.

In Japan, we partner with leading organizations across industries including Financial Services, Manufacturing, Life Sciences, Retail, and Technology to build new AI-powered customer experiences, transform operations, and reimagine how work gets done. 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.

You may thrive in this role if you

• Have 6–10+ years of experience in sales, business development, or GTM roles, with significant experience in the Japanese market
• Bring experience managing SDRs, BDRs, or business development teams in enterprise SaaS, cloud, platform, or other technology businesses
• Have a strong understanding of enterprise prospecting, pipeline generation, and outbound strategy in Japan
• Understand how large Japanese enterprises evaluate and adopt new technologies, and can navigate complex organizations with multiple stakeholders and long decision-making processes
• Are highly operational and data-driven, with experience managing metrics, conversion funnels, pipeline performance, and forecasting
• Thrive in fast-paced, high-growth environments where processes are still being built and ambiguity is expected
• Have experience partnering closely with Enterprise Sales teams on strategic account development
• Are an exceptional coach who knows how to develop early-career talent into high-performing sales professionals
• Can communicate effectively with both technical and executive stakeholders and adapt your communication style across Japanese and global teams
• Lead with high standards, accountability, curiosity, and a low-ego mindset
• Are excited about helping Japanese enterprises adopt transformative AI technologies
• Are fluent in Japanese and able to operate effectively in English in a global business environment

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.

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