GTM Strategy & Planning
OpenAI
About the role
About the Team
OpenAI’s mission is to build safe artificial general intelligence (AGI) that benefits all of humanity. This long-term undertaking brings together the world’s best scientists, engineers, and business professionals. Our Go-To-Market (GTM) organization helps customers understand, adopt, and scale OpenAI’s products and platform. This role sits within Revenue Operations on the Strategic Planning team, which serves as the bridge between Strategic Finance and GTM Leadership—owning target setting, capacity planning, investment strategy, and org design to build data-backed, strategically aligned plans that enable the business to scale effectively.
About the Role
We are hiring for a GTM Strategy & Planning role to help shape how OpenAI plans, invests, and scales across our revenue organization. This role partners closely with Strategic Finance and GTM Leadership to translate company financial goals into actionable regional, segment, and team-level plans across Sales and Technical Success. You will drive headcount and investment planning, own target setting frameworks, influence segmentation and org design, and lead cross-functional planning processes that align the business around a shared operating plan. This role requires strong analytical rigor, deep knowledge of GTM strategy, financial modeling expertise, and the ability to influence senior stakeholders with a thoughtful, “best for the business” mindset.
You’ll be responsible for:
- Partner with Strategic Finance and GTM Leadership to translate company financial plans into regional and segment-level targets, investment priorities, and operating plans
- Build investment and resourcing plans across GTM to ensure capacity is aligned with strategic priorities and supports our financial plan
- Lead bi-annual planning cycles end-to-end, driving cross-functional alignment across Finance, GTM Leadership, Field Operations, Data, and Enablement
- Translate top-down plans into individual field targets that drive accountability, motivation, and performance management across the revenue organization
- Own attainment, productivity, and performance analyses to identify risks, opportunities, and areas for operational improvement
- Develop data-driven recommendations that guide GTM strategy, including segmentation and org design
- Serve as a trusted strategic partner to GTM Leadership, balancing analytical rigor with strong stakeholder management and organizational influence
We’re looking for someone with:
- 8–10+ years of experience in GTM strategy and operations, business operations, strategic finance, consulting, or a related analytical function
- Strong financial modeling and planning experience, with the ability to connect business strategy to targets, headcount, and investment decisions
- Deep understanding of GTM strategy, operating models and the key levers that drive productivity and growth
- Deep understanding of SaaS and consumption-based revenue models and GTM m