OpenAI

SMB Sales Program Manager

OpenAI

full-time

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Origin:  • 🇮🇪 Ireland

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Job Level

SeniorLead

About the role

  • Design and optimize vendor programs and run experiments to improve conversion and vendor staffing
  • Lead SMB BPO programs: manage and optimize existing outsourced motions, ensuring vendor performance, cost efficiency, and scalability
  • Launch & scale vendors: evaluate, select, and onboard new partners; define playbooks and success metrics
  • Own revenue targets for all EMEA vendor-assisted motions
  • Run experiments: design and execute data-driven tests to optimize conversion funnels and handoffs between product-led and sales-assisted flows
  • Standardize operations with dashboards, QA, and escalation processes to ensure consistent vendor performance across geographies
  • Partner with cross-regional teams to share best practices and align strategies
  • Surface insights from vendors to inform product and sales roadmaps to improve customer experience
  • Collaborate closely with sales, product, revops, and vendor partners to deliver a seamless, scalable customer experience

Requirements

  • 7+ years of experience in sales and vendor/BPO leadership
  • Proven track record building and scaling outsourced partner programs from 0 to 1 and beyond
  • Direct experience owning revenue goals executed via BPO or vendor partnerships
  • Strong analytical, operational, and systems skills; comfort with dashboards, SLAs, and experimentation
  • Experience evaluating and negotiating with vendors, launching programs, and driving measurable business outcomes
  • Background in product-led sales or hybrid growth models (preferred)
  • Experience working with global teams
  • Strong cross-functional collaboration skills; ability to work with sales, data, ops, and systems teams
  • Comfort operating in ambiguous, high-growth environments while balancing startup agility with scalable processes
  • Ability to work from our Dublin office three days per week (application asks this)