Enterprise Sales Manager, Banking

About the Role As Enterprise Sales Manager, Banking, you will build and lead a team of Account Directors focused on driving strategic growth across the world’s largest banking institutions. You’ll be a hands-on front-line leader responsible for helping your team navigate complex enterprise sales cycles, deepen executive relationships, and drive adoption of OpenAI’s platform across highly regulated banking environments. This role will shape how OpenAI partners with global banks as they rethink productivity, operations, customer engagement, risk management, and software development through AI. You will help define the GTM strategy, operating model, and industry playbook for one of OpenAI’s most strategic verticals. Key Responsibilities Recruit, develop, and lead a high-performing team of Account Directors focused on large enterprise banking institutions across North America. Create a strong coaching culture with frequent deal reviews, account strategy sessions, ride-alongs, and structured 1:1s that elevate team performance. Define and refine the GTM strategy for banking, including account prioritization, executive engagement strategy, and territory planning. Drive disciplined pipeline generation, forecasting accuracy, and operational rigor across a complex enterprise sales motion. Guide teams through highly consultative, multi-stakeholder opportunities involving technology, security, compliance, legal, and procurement stakeholders. Help customers translate AI and API capabilities into measurable business outcomes across banking use cases such as employee productivity, customer operations, risk and compliance, software engineering, knowledge management, and workflow automation. Lead teams selling into highly regulated environments with a deep understanding of banking-specific risk, governance, and data security considerations. Partner closely with Product, Solutions Architecture, Technical Success, Legal, Security, and Finance to help customers successfully deploy AI at enterprise scale. Provide structured feedback to Product and leadership teams on banking customer requirements, competitive dynamics, industry trends, and feature gaps. Partner with Marketing on industry-specific events, executive engagement strategies, and industry campaigns that generate qualified pipeline and deepen strategic relationships. Establish a culture of accountability, operational excellence, and customer obsession while maintaining a low-ego, highly collaborative team environment. What We’re Looking For 15+ years of enterprise sales, GTM, or sales leadership experience, with significant experience leading teams selling into large banking or financial services organizations. Proven track record building and scaling enterprise sales teams responsible for complex, strategic accounts and large revenue targets. Deep understanding of the banking landscape, including how large financial institutions evaluate and adopt emerging technologies within regulated environments. Experience leading consultative, multi-product, or platform-based sales motions involving executive stakeholders and technical buyers. Strong operational rigor and comfort managing forecasting, pipeline health, territory planning, and performance management at scale. Ability to operate effectively in fast-moving, ambiguous environments while helping teams maintain focus and execution discipline. Strong executive presence with the ability to engage credibly with CIOs, CTOs, CISOs, Heads of Innovation, Digital Transformation leaders, and line-of-business executives. Low-ego, culture-first leader who builds trust quickly, develops talent, and creates high-performing teams. Public company experience strongly preferred. Skills & Experience Non-Negotiables Proven experience leading enterprise sales teams focused on large banking or financial services customers. Strong understanding of regulated enterprise selling and navigating complex compliance, security, legal, and procurement processes. Track record building new GTM motions and helping organizations scale beyond early-stage adoption. Technical fluency across APIs, platform technologies, AI/ML concepts, and enterprise software architecture. Demonstrated ability to coach senior enterprise sellers through complex, multi-threaded opportunities. Low-ego, highly collaborative leadership style with a strong focus on culture and talent development. Strong Preferences Experience selling platform, cloud, infrastructure, or consumption-based technology solutions. Experience influencing product roadmap, pricing strategy, packaging, or enterprise commercial structures. Experience working with highly strategic global banking accounts and executive-level transformation initiatives. Public company operating experience with rigorous forecasting and performance accountability. Nice to Have Prior exposure to AI, developer platforms, or emerging technology categories. Experience across both high-growth technology companies and scaled enter