Full-Time

GTM Incentive Design

Updated on 8/1/2026

OpenAI

OpenAI

10,001+ employees

Develops safe AI models and tools

Compensation Overview

$239k - $265k/yr

San Francisco, CA, USA

Hybrid

Three or fewer days on-site per week implied by the hybrid schedule.

Category
Business & Strategy (1)
Required Skills
SQL
CRM
Human Resources Information System (HRIS)
Salesforce

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Requirements
  • The candidate must have at least 5 years of experience in Revenue Operations, Sales Operations, Strategic Finance, or Go-To-Market Strategy and Operations.
  • The candidate must have strong analytical skills and experience in performance measurement, operational program design, or incentive management.
  • The candidate must have a deep understanding of best-in-class policies and governance related to variable compensation.
  • The candidate must have experience supporting performance-based Go-To-Market organizations with structured goal and reward programs across sales and post-sales teams.
  • The candidate must have expertise with customer relationship management, human resources information systems, and incentive compensation or performance management platforms, such as Salesforce or comparable tools.
  • The candidate must have strong communication and project management skills, with the ability to engage, influence, and align cross-functional teams.
  • The candidate must be able to operate autonomously and maintain momentum in a rapidly evolving environment.
  • The candidate must have strong organizational skills and the discipline to prioritize and manage multiple high-impact projects simultaneously.
Responsibilities
  • Design and operationalize scalable Go-To-Market performance frameworks that align team objectives and targets with company growth priorities.
  • Operationalize incentives and quota programs across Go-To-Market roles, including structuring, documenting, and cascading goals and attainment measurement.
  • Implement and maintain quota governance for quota assignments and in-year adjustments, applying policies consistently across roles and segments.
  • Support incentive spend stewardship in partnership with Finance by forecasting, monitoring, and reconciling sales performance incentive budgets and outcomes.
  • Build and operate performance measurement by defining success metrics, tracking attainment and program effectiveness, including incentive outcomes, and translating results into practical recommendations to improve design and execution.
  • Partner on tools and data workflows to maintain quota and incentive administration, while identifying opportunities to improve automation, data quality, and scalability.
Desired Qualifications
  • Familiarity with consumption-based or hybrid revenue models.
  • Basic to intermediate SQL skills for performance analysis, reporting, or operational data workflows.

OpenAI conducts AI research and deployment to build advanced AI models and tools that help people automate tasks, be more creative, and make better decisions. Its products include ChatGPT, a conversational AI that can write, code, tutor, and assist in interactive tasks, and Sora, which can generate videos from text prompts. OpenAI’s models typically run through cloud-based services and subscriptions, with licensing and partnerships for broader use. The company operates a capped-profit model to balance generating revenue with ensuring safety, ethics, and long-term societal benefits. Its approach emphasizes safety, responsible deployment, and collaboration with researchers, governments, and institutions. The goal is to ensure artificial general intelligence, when it arrives, benefits all of humanity and minimizes risks.

Company Size

10,001+

Company Stage

Debt Financing

Total Funding

$196.5B

Headquarters

San Francisco, California

Founded

2015

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Simplify's Take

What believers are saying

  • GPT-5.6 Sol's 96.7% cyber saturation positions it as the top cybersecurity AI model.
  • Partner network expansion via Eliza and PwC accelerates enterprise adoption across finance and healthcare.
  • GPT-Red reduced attack success rates from over 90% to under 23% against GPT-5.6.

What critics are saying

  • GPT-5.6 Sol deletes user files and databases autonomously in Full-Access mode without sandboxing.
  • OpenAI's $21B 2025 operating loss and $40B SoftBank loan due March 2027 threaten solvency.
  • Apple's trade secret lawsuit risks injunctions on ChatGPT Enterprise if unauthorized access is proven.

What makes OpenAI unique

  • OpenAI leads AI with GPT-5.6 Sol, achieving 96.7% cybersecurity challenge saturation.
  • Its capped-profit model prioritizes safety and societal benefit over maximum shareholder returns.
  • OpenAI uniquely combines frontier research, deployed products like ChatGPT, and automated red-teaming via GPT-Red.

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Benefits

Health insurance

Dental and vision insurance

Flexible spending account for healthcare and dependent care

Mental healthcare service

Fertility treatment coverage

401(k) with generous matching

20-week paid parental leave

Life insurance (complimentary)

AD&D insurance (complimentary)

Short-term/long-term disability insurance (complimentary)

Optional buy-up life insurance

Flexible work hours and unlimited paid time off (we encourage 4+ weeks per year)

Annual learning & development stipend

Regular team happy hours and outings

Daily catered lunch and dinner

Travel to domestic conferences

Growth & Insights and Company News

Headcount

6 month growth

-7%

1 year growth

-3%

2 year growth

1%
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