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OpenAI
About OpenAI
OpenAI's sales team sells ChatGPT Enterprise, the API and Codex to organizations, and a newer Ads Solutions group sells advertising and grows advertisers' results. Its quota carriers are titled Account Director and split into Digital Natives, Startups, Mid-Market, Large Enterprise, industries (financial services, healthcare, life sciences, manufacturing, cyber) and federal and national security buyers; one federal posting asks for a record of more than $2M a year in federal revenue. US sellers sit in San Francisco, New York, Seattle and Washington DC, and the rest in Tokyo, Singapore, Sydney, Seoul, Dublin, Munich, Paris, Stockholm and India.
Typical pay, live
, SalesJobs.Now shows 77 open OpenAI sales roles; the postings mostly run from $208k to $368k a year, with $247k in the middle.
OpenAI sales openings
Board read 30 Oct 2026, 16:06 UTC- $261,000–$305,000/yr
Sales Manager, Startups (shows the role here)
Sales leadership · San Francisco· 1d agoDetails
$290,000–$335,000/yrValue Engineer - NYC (shows the role here)
Sales engineering · New York City· 3d agoDetails
$234,000–$260,000/yrValue Engineer - San Francisco (shows the role here)
Sales engineering · San Francisco· 3d agoDetails
$234,000–$260,000/yr- $239,000–$265,000/yr
Manager, Cyber - Applied AI Architect (shows the role here)
Sales leadership · San Francisco· 1w agoDetails
$217,000–$241,000/yrCustomer Success Manager - Ads Solutions (Dutch speaking) (shows the role here)
Customer success · Dublin, Ireland· 1w agoDetails
- $178,200–$301,500/yr
Global Head of Education GTM (shows the role here)
Sales leadership · San Francisco· 2w agoDetails
$385,000–$405,000/yr
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OpenAI as an employer
The maker of ChatGPT, which calls itself an AI research and deployment company. Posted pay: $208k–$368k/yr, midpoint $247k/yr.
Hiring now, with pay read from the salaries its own postings state77 sales openings at OpenAI, as its own board showed them 30 Oct 2026.
Salary on OpenAI payroll, with commission listed apart from the salary on quota-carrying roles and an equity offer on every US sales posting.
San Francisco, New York, Seattle and Washington DC (a few US-remote roles); Tokyo, Singapore, Sydney, Seoul, Dublin, London, Munich, Berlin, Paris, Stockholm, Delhi, Mumbai, Abu Dhabi and São Paulo.
Pay at OpenAI
From today's postings, 30 Oct 2026Midpoint $247k/yr across 42 openings with posted pay. Posted figures range from $108k/yr to $441k/yr.
Based on 42 distinct posted pay ranges, at this company, every range put on a yearly basis (a rate per hour × 2,080 hours). 35 of the 77 openings here list no pay.
Best-paid OpenAI openings on the board
All 77 of its openings, sorted by payPartner Director, PwC (shows the role here)
Partner sales · San Francisco· 2mo agoDetails
$380,000–$420,000/yrPartner Director, McKinsey Alliance (shows the role here)
Partner sales · San Francisco· 2mo agoDetails
$380,000–$420,000/yr- $405,000/yr
Global Head of Education GTM (shows the role here)
Sales leadership · San Francisco· 2w agoDetails
$385,000–$405,000/yrPhysical Engineering Business Lead (Special Situations) (shows the role here)
Sales engineering · San Francisco· 3w agoDetails
$333,000–$370,000/yr
Typical means from the 25th percentile of the midpoints of posted ranges (each counted as yearly pay, a rate per hour at 2,080 hours) to the 90th percentile of their top ends, the yardstick behind every list on this site. How we source and grade each salary figure.
Sales roles OpenAI hires for
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From the forum
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Is OpenAI a good company to sell for?
The maker of ChatGPT, which calls itself an AI research and deployment company.
Is OpenAI still an active employer?
Yes. The maker of ChatGPT, which calls itself an AI research and deployment company. How its pay is structured: Salary on OpenAI payroll, with commission listed apart from the salary on quota-carrying roles and an equity offer on every US sales posting.
What does a sales job at OpenAI pay?
On OpenAI's board today, the 42 openings that post pay put the typical band at $208k–$368k/yr and the midpoint at $247k/yr. Posted figures range from $108k/yr up to $441k/yr.
Is selling for OpenAI worth it?
Posted pay at OpenAI: $208k–$368k/yr, midpoint $247k/yr. Selling AI and data products suits reps who can hold a technical buyer's attention through a proof of concept.
How is OpenAI's sales comp put together?
Salary on OpenAI payroll, with commission listed apart from the salary on quota-carrying roles and an equity offer on every US sales posting.
Where are OpenAI's sales roles based?
San Francisco, New York, Seattle and Washington DC (a few US-remote roles); Tokyo, Singapore, Sydney, Seoul, Dublin, London, Munich, Berlin, Paris, Stockholm, Delhi, Mumbai, Abu Dhabi and São Paulo.
Weigh OpenAI against
Sells Claude, through its API, Claude Code and enterprise plans, to startups, large companies and the public sector.
$258k–$550k/yrTypical pay, live
A Work AI platform (enterprise search, an assistant and agents) connected to a company's own apps and data.
$283k–$360k/yrTypical pay, live
An end-to-end platform for enterprises to build and run AI agents grounded in their own data.
$220k–$350k/yrTypical pay, live
AI agents for customer service and sales, sold to large consumer brands.
$233k–$407k/yrTypical pay, liveCompanies are listed by what an application there is worth to you, and one that pays us a fee for hires sent from here gets a lift in that order; the fee never touches the base or OTE a company offers.
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