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Sales Engineer

OpenAISan Francisco, California, United StatesOnsite
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About the Team


The Success team is responsible for the customer experience on both the OpenAI API platform as well as the ChatGPT business product, ensuring developers and enterprises maximize benefit, value, and adoption from our highly-capable models. OpenAI's customers represent a range of diverse backgrounds and maturity, from early-stage startups to established global enterprises.

About the Role


We are looking for a founding Sales Engineer to collaborate directly with our first ChatGPT business product customers. You are crucial to the success of these early adopters and will be instrumental in bringing this new product to market, ultimately responsible for understanding and responding to our customer’s pre-sales needs, accelerating the time to sign and onboard new customers, and scaling the function long-term. You will collaborate closely with the Sales, GRC, and Product teams, and will report to the Head of Success.This role is based in our San Francisco HQ.

We offer relocation support to new employees.

In this role, you will:



  • Deliver an exceptional pre-sales customer experience.

  • Provide technical expertise in the pre-sales process, outlining the value proposition, clarifying technical requirements, and answering product-related questions.

  • Demonstrate how the ChatGPT business product can provide solutions to customers’ business needs and deliver value, including (but not limited to) demos, use case scoping, and proof of concepts.

  • Serve as the first line of defense for security and compliance questions, explaining standardized collateral, guiding customers toward relevant resources (e.g. trust portal), and escalating complex requirements to the appropriate teams.

  • Create and maintain documentation, guides, and FAQs related to common questions and requirements discovered during the pre-sales process.

  • Develop and nurture strong customer relationships during the evaluation and purchasing process.

  • Foster customer advocacy and represent the voice of the customer with internal teams, gathering and relaying customer feedback and identifying themes across customers to incorporate into product planning.

  • Collaborate closely with the Sales and GRC teams to ensure a seamless pre-sales experience.

You might thrive in this role if you: 



  • Have 7+ years of experience in a Sales Engineer (or similar) role, managing relationships with large, global, and complex organizations, preferably working with a technical enterprise product.

  • Have a solid track record of delivering and scaling an exceptional pre-sales customer experience.

  • Have experience providing higher level security and compliance support as well as a thorough understanding and knowledge of IT security principles and customer requirements for similar technical B2B SaaS products.

  • Possess exceptional presentation and communication skills, particularly when engaging with executives and leaders.

  • Have a humble attitude, an eagerness to help others, and a desire to pick up whatever knowledge you're missing to make both your team and our customers succeed.

  • Operate with high horsepower, have strong problem-solving skills, are adept at frequent context switching, effectively manage working on multiple projects at once with expansive ownership, and ruthlessly prioritize.

  • Are personally committed to fostering the safe and ethical evolution of AI.

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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 do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, veteran status, disability or any other legally protected status. For US Based Candidates: Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.We are committed to providing reasonable accommodations to applicants with disabilities, and requests can be made via this link.OpenAI Global Applicant Privacy PolicyAt OpenAI, we believe artificial intelligence has the potential to help people solve immense global challenges, and we want the upside of AI to be widely shared.

Join us in shaping the future of technology.Compensation Range: $220K - $280K

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Life at OpenAI

OpenAI is an AI research and deployment company dedicated to ensuring that general-purpose artificial intelligence benefits all of humanity. AI is an extremely powerful tool that must be created with safety and human needs at its core. OpenAI is dedicated to putting that alignment of interests first — ahead of profit. Their main product is ChatGPT. They've trained a model called ChatGPT which interacts in a conversational way. The dialogue format makes it possible for ChatGPT to answer followup questions, admit its mistakes, challenge incorrect premises, and reject inappropriate requests. To achieve our mission, we must encompass and value the many different perspectives, voices, and experiences that form the full spectrum of humanity. Our investment in diversity, equity, and inclusion is ongoing, executed through a wide range of initiatives, and championed and supported by leadership. At OpenAI, we believe artificial intelligence has the potential to help people solve immense global challenges, and we want the upside of AI to be widely shared. Join us in shaping the future of technology.
Thrive Here & What We Value1. OpenAI is an equal opportunity employer that values diverse perspectives, voices, and experiences. We do not discriminate based on race, religion, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, veteran status, disability or any other legally protected status.2. Our commitment to providing reasonable accommodations for applicants with disabilities is demonstrated through our global applicant privacy policy and the option for requests via a provided link.3. We believe in shaping the future of technology by creating AI systems that are safe, reliable, and have human needs at their core. Our mission includes encompassing diverse perspectives, voices, and experiences to benefit all of humanity.4. OpenAI's hybrid work model consists of 3 days in the office per week, promoting a collaborative environment while offering relocation assistance for new employees.5. We prioritize impact by supporting researchers, enabling initiatives that have enduring customer and business impact, focusing on data and insights, preparing for future transformative technologies, and engaging in robust security practices.6. Our commitment to safety is evident through our emphasis on creating AI systems with human needs at their core and a fast-paced environment that provides individuals with high autonomy while valuing diverse perspectives and experiences.7. OpenAI's dedication to ensuring AI benefits all of humanity includes providing reasonable accommodations for applicants with disabilities, adhering to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, and considering qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.
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