Sales Development Leader - TokyoActive

The opportunity

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.

What you'll do

  • Lead, coach, and develop a team of SDRs supporting Large Enterprise,: Strategic Accounts, and key industry verticals across Japan

  • Drive high-quality pipeline generation through outbound prospecting, inbound: qualification, account-based motions, and product-led signals

  • Build an SDR motion tailored to the Japanese enterprise market, including: thoughtful account mapping, stakeholder engagement, and long-term relationship development

  • Establish strong operational rigor around activity metrics, conversion rates,: pipeline quality, and execution consistency

  • Partner closely with Account Directors and Japan sales leadership on: territory planning, account prioritization, and strategic opportunity development

  • Help define scalable SDR playbooks across outbound, inbound, ABM, partner-sourced, and product-led motions

What they're looking for

  • Coach SDRs on executive communication, discovery, account research, strategic: prospecting, and engaging senior stakeholders within large Japanese enterprises
  • Build a high-performance, collaborative, and low-ego team culture focused on continuous improvement
  • Work cross-functionally with Marketing, Partnerships, Solutions Engineering,: and Strategy & Operations to optimize pipeline generation efforts in Japan
  • Support the hiring, onboarding, and development of SDR talent as the Japan organization continues to scale