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Partner Sales and Development Leader, Southern Europe

London, UKFull-time2026-11-09

Core

Lead partner sales and development for Southern Europe, managing a regional team to drive revenue, pipeline, and customer adoption of OpenAI's enterprise AI products through strategic partnerships.

Role type

Senior people manager (Partner Sales & Development)

Builds

Regional partner business, co-sell pipelines, and customer adoption of enterprise AI workloads

Domain

Enterprise AI, Cloud, SaaS, Strategic Alliances

Deliverable

production ML models

Required skills

Enterprise sales, partner sales, strategic alliances, people management, team leadership, joint account planning, co-sell execution, pipeline management, forecasting, stakeholder management, technical-commercial fluency

Preferred skills

Managing geographically distributed teams, scaling regional partner sales business, aligning sales and delivery organizations, familiarity with AI platforms and cloud marketplaces

Technologies

Enterprise AI platforms, Cloud providers, SaaS, Cloud marketplaces

Responsibilities

Own regional partner sales plan and business outcomes; Hire, manage, and develop a regional team; Identify and develop new partner-led opportunities; Lead joint account planning and complex co-sell pursuits; Build relationships with partner executives; Create repeatable field engagement models and sales plays; Establish pipeline reviews and performance reporting.

Seniority

Senior, hands-on IC with people management responsibilities