Sales Manager, Financial Services at OpenAI

Sales Manager, Financial Services

Location

New York City

Employment Type

Full time

Location Type

Hybrid

Department

Compensation

• $350K • Offers Equity

The base pay offered may vary depending on multiple individualized factors, including market location, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. If the role is non-exempt, overtime pay will be provided consistent with applicable laws. In addition to the salary range listed above, total compensation also includes generous equity, performance-related bonus(es) for eligible employees, and the following benefits.

• Medical, dental, and vision insurance for you and your family, with employer contributions to Health Savings Accounts

• Pre-tax accounts for Health FSA, Dependent Care FSA, and commuter expenses (parking and transit)

• 401(k) retirement plan with employer match

• Paid parental leave (up to 24 weeks for birth parents and 20 weeks for non-birthing parents), plus paid medical and caregiver leave (up to 8 weeks)

• Paid time off: flexible PTO for exempt employees and up to 15 days annually for non-exempt employees

• 13+ paid company holidays, and multiple paid coordinated company office closures throughout the year for focus and recharge, plus paid sick or safe time (1 hour per 30 hours worked, or more, as required by applicable state or local law)

• Mental health and wellness support

• Employer-paid basic life and disability coverage

• Annual learning and development stipend to fuel your professional growth

• Daily meals in our offices, and meal delivery credits as eligible

• Relocation support for eligible employees

• Additional taxable fringe benefits, such as charitable donation matching and wellness stipends, may also be provided.

More details about our benefits are available to candidates during the hiring process.

About the team

OpenAI’s mission is to build safe artificial general intelligence (AGI) that benefits all of humanity. Our Go-To-Market (GTM) team helps organizations understand, adopt, and scale our AI products across their business — from ChatGPT Enterprise to our developer platform and APIs.

The Enterprise Sales organization partners with the world’s largest companies to build new AI-powered customer experiences, transform operations, and reimagine how work gets done. We are expanding our industry focus across Financial Services, Life Sciences, Retail, and other strategic industries, and building repeatable best practices for how enterprises adopt AI at scale.

About the role

As Sales Manager, Financial Services, you will build and lead a team of Account Directors focused on landing and growing our largest Financial Services customers — including global banks, capital markets firms, asset and wealth managers, payments networks and fintechs, and (where relevant) insurers.

You’ll be a hands-on front-line leader: coaching reps through complex opportunities, driving disciplined pipeline and forecasting practices, and creating the vertical GTM playbook for how OpenAI engages the Financial Services market. This foundational leadership role will shape how leading Financial Services organizations adopt AI and how we scale this motion across Enterprise.

In this role, you will

• Recruit, develop, and lead a team of Enterprise Account Directors focused on new business and strategic expansion in Financial Services.

• Create a strong coaching culture with frequent deal reviews, ride-alongs, and structured 1:1s that elevate performance.

• Define and refine the GTM strategy for Financial Services accounts, aligned to our evolving territory and account coverage model.

• Drive territory design, account prioritization, and coverage approaches that balance new customer acquisition with strategic expansion.

• Establish clear operating rhythms for pipeline and forecast management, with explicit expectations on activity, coverage, and deal quality.

• Hold the team accountable for building and closing high-quality, multi-stakeholder, multi-product opportunities that materially impact revenue.

• Guide reps through complex, technical, and often unstructured opportunities in highly regulated environments, including nuanced security, privacy, data residency, and model-risk considerations.

• Help translate AI and API capabilities into business value for Financial Services executives across lines of business and enterprise functions (e.g., risk, compliance, legal, audit, security, data, operations).

• Navigate vendor governance and procurement processes common to Financial Services (e.g., third-party risk management, model governance, control frameworks), building plans that keep deals moving without compromising trust.

• Partner with Marketing to shape the Financial Services story, campaigns, and events that generate qualified pipeline — and provide clear, data-driven feedback on what is and isn’t working.

• Provide structured, prioritized feedback to Product on customer use cases, feature gaps, and deal blockers to inform roadmap, packaging, and pricing decisions.

• Partner with Finance on deal structures, commercial terms, and approvals that balance customer needs with OpenAI’s revenue, margin, and risk objectives.

• Work closely with Technical Success and post-sales teams to co-design solutions, align on implementation expectations, and ensure smooth handoffs that set customers up for long-term success.

What we’re looking for

• 15+ years of experience in enterprise sales, customer success, or GTM leadership, with significant time leading at scale.

• Proven track record of driving revenue growth in enterprise segments (e.g., $100M+ business units or equivalent scope).

• Experience leading verticalized sales motions