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SMB Innovation Sales & Strategy Lead

San Francisco💼 Full-time🗓 2026-09-14 → 2026-09-26

Core

Identify, incubate, and scale new revenue opportunities for OpenAI's SMB Ads business by developing customer propositions, validating pilots, and launching go-to-market programs.

Role type

Senior IC strategy & growth lead (SMB advertising)

Builds

New revenue streams, customer acquisition programs, and scalable go-to-market initiatives for SMB advertising

Domain

AI advertising platforms / Small and medium-sized business (SMB) technology

Deliverable

production ML models | product features | dashboards & analysis | research | client delivery | infrastructure | physical/clinical work

Required skills

business incubation, growth strategy, business operations, product strategy, consulting, financial modeling, unit economics, funnel analysis, experimentation, customer segmentation, pilot delivery, cross-functional leadership

Preferred skills

advertising platforms, marketplaces, SMB technology, management consulting, startup experience, outsourced sales channels, sales-assisted growth

Technologies

N/A

Responsibilities

Identify untapped SMB opportunities and build business cases; Design acquisition and expansion programs; Translate customer insights into product opportunities; Develop actionable SMB segmentation; Own pilot delivery and measurement; Shape SMB strategy and investment recommendations; Lead innovation portfolio roadmaps

Seniority

Senior, hands-on IC

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