OpenAI hires Denise Dresser, 654 roles

OpenAI has turned to enterprise software veterans as it pushes harder into corporate sales, hiring former Slack chief executive Denise Dresser as chief revenue officer. (openai.com) OpenAI announced Dresser’s appointment on December 9, 2025, saying she would oversee global revenue strategy across enterprise and customer success. The company said she joined after leading Slack through its integration with Salesforce. (openai.com) CNBC reported on April 25, 2026 that Jennifer Majlessi, another Salesforce veteran, also moved to OpenAI as head of go-to-market, according to LinkedIn. CNBC said executives from Salesforce, Snowflake and Datadog have recently been recruited by OpenAI and Anthropic. (cnbc.com) The hiring lines up with a business shift Dresser described in an April 8, 2026 note. She wrote that enterprise now makes up more than 40% of OpenAI’s revenue and is on track to reach parity with consumer by the end of 2026. (openai.com) That same note put numbers on the scale OpenAI is chasing: Codex reached 3 million weekly active users, and OpenAI’s application programming interfaces process more than 15 billion tokens per minute. Dresser also named Goldman Sachs, State Farm and Thermo Fisher among customers. (openai.com) OpenAI’s own hiring page listed 654 open positions on April 27, 2026, spanning ChatGPT engineering, applied artificial intelligence, finance, identity infrastructure and health AI. Several roles were posted across San Francisco, New York City, Seattle, London and remote U.S. locations. (jobs.ashbyhq.com) The company has framed that expansion as part of a broader push to serve workplaces, not just consumers. In its December announcement, OpenAI said more than 1 million business customers, including Walmart, Morgan Stanley, Intuit and Lowe’s, use its tools. (openai.com) Rivals are hiring aggressively too. Anthropic’s careers page was live Monday with dozens of openings visible, while CNBC said Anthropic has also recruited from Salesforce as AI companies compete for sales leaders with deep corporate relationships. (anthropic.com) (cnbc.com) The message from OpenAI’s recent hires is straightforward: the contest is no longer just about researchers building models, but operators selling them into big companies. (openai.com) (cnbc.com)