APAC Sales Development Leader
OpenAI
About the role
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.
We partner with organizations across Financial Services, Life Sciences, Retail, Manufacturing, Technology, and other key industries across Asia Pacific to build AI-powered customer experiences, transform operations, and accelerate innovation. 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.
About the role
We are hiring a APAC Sales Development Leader to build and lead OpenAI’s enterprise Sales Development organization across Asia Pacific. Reporting directly to the Head of Global Sales Development, this role is a core part of the Enterprise GTM leadership team.
This is a high-impact leadership role focused on scaling pipeline generation and market development across a diverse and rapidly growing region. You will define how OpenAI engages enterprise customers across APAC, build regional SDR leadership and teams, and create the operating model that converts product interest, developer activity, and inbound demand into high-quality pipeline for our Enterprise and Strategic Accounts organizations.
In this role, you will
- Build and scale OpenAI’s APAC Sales Development organization, including hiring strategy, org design, enablement, and performance management.
- Lead and develop front-line SDR managers and SDR teams across key APAC markets.
- Own the regional enterprise pipeline generation strategy, ensuring consistent, high-quality opportunity creation across the region.
- Translate product usage, pilots, developer engagement, and inbound interest into qualified enterprise opportunities.
- Develop localized and vertical-specific SDR motions tailored to APAC markets and buying environments.
- Partner closely with Sales, Marketing, Field Engineering, Partnerships, and Strategy & Ops to drive a coordinated regional GTM motion.
- Establish scalable outbound, inbound, ABM, partner-led, and product-led pipeline generation playbooks.
- Build a data-driven operating cadence focused on pipeline quality, conversion, velocity, and long-term revenue impact.
- Help define OpenAI’s market expansion strategy across APAC, including investment prioritization and territory planning.
- Serve as a strategic partner to regional sales leadership on how to capture and accelerate enterprise demand.
You may thrive in this role if you
- Have 10+ years of experience in enterprise sales, revenue, or GTM leadership.
- Bring significant experience leading SDR or pipeline generation organizations across APAC.
- Have experience managing distributed, multicultural teams across