Sales Manager, Startups
OpenAI · San Francisco, CA · Go To Market
About this role
OpenAI is hiring a manager-level Sales Manager based in San Francisco, CA. The posting calls out experience with OpenAI, API Development. Compensation is listed at $261,000–$305,000 per year.
- Role
- Sales Manager
- Function
- sales
- Level
- manager
- Track
- Management
- Employment
- Full-time
- Location
- San Francisco, CA
- Department
- Go To Market
- Posted
- May 18, 2026
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Job description
from OpenAI careersAbout the Team
OpenAI’s mission is to build safe artificial general intelligence (AGI) which benefits all of humanity. This long-term undertaking brings the world’s best scientists, engineers, and business professionals into one lab together to accomplish this.
In pursuit of this mission, our Go To Market (GTM) team is responsible for helping customers learn how to leverage and deploy our highly capable AI products across their business. The team is made of Sales, Solutions, Support, Marketing, and Partnership professionals that work together to create valuable solutions that will help bring AI to as many users as possible.
About the Role
Startups are creating many of the most disruptive and category-defining AI applications. The Startup Go To Market team’s mission is to help startups harness the power of AI models to drive these advances. You will lead a team that supports startups building effectively with OpenAI’s APIs, providing access to OpenAI teams and expertise to support their growth.
This role is a mixture of technical understanding, vision, partnership, and strategy.
This leadership role will be responsible for driving and implementing the sales strategy within our startups segment, recruiting and leading a team of technical sales professionals, and achieving successful deployments with startup customers.