Business Development Representative - Apac

OpenAI OpenAI · AI Frontier · Singapore · Go To Market

This role is a launchpad for future sellers at OpenAI, focusing on identifying, shaping, and advancing complex enterprise opportunities by turning product usage, pilots, and inbound demand into qualified enterprise opportunities for the sales teams. It involves partnering with Account Directors, executing outbound strategies, leading discovery, and contributing to pipeline reviews. The role also involves building and iterating on AI-enabled GTM workflows.

What you'd actually do

  1. Partner with Account Directors on account strategy, multi-threading, and deal progression
  2. Design and execute targeted outbound strategies using industry context, stakeholder mapping, and product signal to break into priority accounts
  3. Lead high-quality discovery to uncover business priorities, map stakeholders, and assess enterprise readiness
  4. Contribute to pipeline reviews by sharing outbound activity, account insights, and early competitive signals
  5. Build and iterate on AI-enabled GTM workflows (GPTs/Agents) to scale prospecting and qualification

Skills

Required

  • enterprise sales
  • strategic customer-facing roles
  • finance industry
  • consulting industry
  • hitting and exceeding ambitious targets
  • selling into regulated industries
  • selling into complex industries
  • Financial Services
  • Life Sciences
  • Retail
  • communication skills
  • executive presence
  • build credibility with senior C-Suite stakeholders
  • speak fluently with technical buyers
  • interest in the AI landscape
  • connect OpenAI products to real customer value and business outcomes
  • evangelizing new technology
  • helping the market understand what’s possible
  • comfortable with ambiguity
  • moving quickly
  • operating well with a high degree of ownership

Nice to have

  • AI-enabled GTM workflows (GPTs/Agents)

What the JD emphasized

  • 4+ years of relevant experience in enterprise sales, or in strategic customer-facing roles in the finance or consulting industry
  • track record of consistently hitting and exceeding ambitious targets in enterprise or strategic sales environments
  • Experience selling into regulated or complex industries (Financial Services, Life Sciences, Retail)