Business Operations Partner Director in San Francisco

About Flexport: At Flexport, we believe global trade can move the human race forward. That’s why it’s our mission to make global commerce so easy there will be more of it. We’re shaping the future of a $10T industry with solutions powered by innovative technology and exceptional people. Today, companies of all sizes—from emerging brands to Fortune 500s—use Flexport technology to move more than $19B of merchandise across 112 countries a year. The recent global supply chain crisis has put Flexport center stage as we continue to play a pivotal role in how goods move around the world. We are proud to have the support of the best investors in the game who believe in our mission, solutions and people. Ready to tackle global challenges that impact business, society, and the environment? Come join us. The opportunity Join the Office of the CEO and work directly on Flexport's highest-priority problems alongside the CEO, the President, and the leaders who run our regions and modes of freight. You will pick up a mode or a region, ocean, air, trucking, omnichannel, or customs, and learn it from the inside by solving real problems in it. Pricing in a mode that is losing money. Why a region misses its plan. Whether we buy, build, or partner. Then you go run part of it. Some people in this role move into a business unit as the number two to the leader who runs it. Some stay at the center and take on more scope. The operating job at the end is the point of the role, not a side benefit. You will: Own our biggest open questions end to end and come back with recommendations the CEO can act on. Build the analysis yourself. Pull the data, build the model, find the error before someone else does. Go to where the work happens, from warehouses and ports to a customer's supply chain team. Opinions about freight formed in a conference room are usually wrong. Run the operating cadence for a freight mode or region. Weekly metrics, quarterly plan, and the follow-ups nobody wants to

About the Team OpenAI’s mission is to ensure that general-purpose artificial intelligence benefits all of humanity. The Business Marketing team contributes to our broader mission of ensuring responsible and widespread adoption of artificial intelligence by developing and executing strategies that drive awareness, engagement, and usage for OpenAI’s products and platform amongst core business audiences. The Strategy & Operations function supports Business Marketing with operating models and cadences; strategic planning; portfolio, resource, and investment management; measurement and organizational learning that empower our teams to move at pace with clarity and confidence. This is a hybrid role, based in San Francisco Bay Area (preferred) or New York City three days a week. About the Role Business Marketing moves quickly, and this role sits close to the work. We’re looking for an analytical, highly collaborative Business Operations Manager who can turn a complex marketing budget into better day-to-day decisions. You will partner with marketing leaders, Strategic Finance, Procurement, Data Science, agencies, and regional teams to plan and pace spend, manage commitments, answer urgent questions, and translate investment data into clear actions. This role is not for someone who prefers back-office operations. You will be embedded in the business, understand what teams are trying to achieve, and help them move faster with confidence. You will run the operating rhythm for budget administration across a global, highly matrixed team: maintaining a trusted view of allocations, POs, contracts, actuals, forecasts, and risks; reconciling inputs across different marketing functions, regions, and shared services; and surfacing tradeoffs for leadership and Strategic Finance. You will also partner with Data Science to better connect spend to outcomes, lead useful ad hoc analysis, and build AI-enabled tools and workflows that take the friction out of budget management and make th

About Runway Runway is a collaborative business planning platform designed to make business intuitively understandable for everyone. Our Mission : To make business accessible and understandable to everyone. We believe that teams that understand the “why” behind their work are more productive and make better decisions. True alignment and collaboration come from having a shared source of truth that everyone understands. Our Approach : Runway replaces traditional spreadsheets with a modern planning platform that brings clarity and context to business operations for all teams — not just finance. Just as Figma made design accessible across the organization, Runway does the same for business planning. Why It Matters: Understanding requires more than just access to numbers; real collaboration happens when teams see how their work fits into the bigger picture. By providing this context, Runway helps teams save time and move faster. Our Customers : World-class companies like AngelList, Superhuman, Stability.AI, ConvertKit, Lambda Labs, Lob, and SandboxVR rely on Runway to run their businesses more efficiently. Our Investors : We are supported by a select group of investors that we admire, including Garry Tan (YC & Initialized), a16z, Elad Gil, Naval Ravikant, Dylan Field (founder of Figma), Eric Ries, Claire Hughes Johnson (COO of Stripe), Henry Ward (founder of Carta), Akshay Kothari (COO of Notion), Eugene Wei, Lenny Rachitsky, Nikita Bier, Scott Belsky, Soleio Cuervo, Balaji Srinivasan, and many others. Working at Runway We're early, so you'll have an opportunity to shape not just our product, but the company itself: who we work with, and how we work together. We strive to be clear in our communication and over-communicate by default. We're remote-first, so you can work from anywhere in North America. However, we also believe in the value of face-time to solve really hard problems, so we: Meet together as a company every quarter in our San Francisco office. Open up of

About the Team OpenAI's Professional Services team helps organizations move from AI ambition to durable production outcomes. We partner with customers on complex deployments and build the strategy, commercial models, operating mechanisms, and delivery capacity needed to realize value from OpenAI's models and products. The team works across Go-to-Market, Forward Deployed Engineering, Technical Success, Finance, Product, Legal, Data, Systems, and delivery partners. We are building a services motion that is customer-centered, commercially rigorous, operationally scalable, and deliberately connected to product adoption. About the Role We are seeking a senior GTM Strategy & Operations professional to build and scale the operating system for OpenAI's Professional Services business. This is a foundational, hands-on individual contributor role at the intersection of business strategy, finance, go-to-market, and delivery. You will turn ambiguous questions—what we offer, how we price and package it, how we plan capacity, and how we measure performance—into clear decisions and repeatable mechanisms. You will own business planning, pricing and packaging, forecasting and modeling, management reporting, and cross-functional strategic initiatives. You will build integrated views of demand, staffing, revenue, margin, and delivery performance; replace one-off analyses with durable processes; and create operating cadences that help leaders act early. You will be a trusted partner to Professional Services, GTM, FDE, Technical Success, Finance, Product, Legal, Revenue Operations, and Data leaders. The right person combines direct Professional Services judgment with rigorous analytics, executive communication, and the willingness to build the model, process, or dashboard themselves. You’ll be responsible for: Define and drive the business and GTM strategy for Professional Services, including target customer needs, offer portfolio, positioning, pricing and packaging, partner motions,

About the Team The Marketing team helps OpenAI bring products, research, and company priorities to the world with clarity, creativity, and impact. We partner across Product, Research, Design, Creative, Communications, Finance, Legal, and Go-to-Market teams to translate complex technology into work that people can understand, trust, and use. Marketing Strategy & Operations builds the operating systems that help this work move with focus and speed. We connect priorities to plans, plans to resourcing, and resourcing to execution, so teams can make better decisions earlier and stay aligned as priorities evolve. About the Role We’re looking for a Strategy & Operations Lead, Hardware Marketing to help build and run the operating system for OpenAI’s Hardware Marketing work. This role will partner closely with Hardware Marketing leadership, Product Marketing, Product, Design, Creative, Production, Communications, Finance, Legal, and external partners to bring structure to a fast-moving, highly cross-functional product area. You will help the team clarify priorities, build plans, manage intake, track decisions, surface risks, frame tradeoffs, and keep critical workstreams moving from planning through operating readiness. This is a strong fit for someone who can operate independently in ambiguity, build practical systems from scratch, and move fluidly between strategy and execution. Experience with complex product launches or sensitive, cross-functional product areas is preferred. This role is based in San Francisco. We use a hybrid work model of three days in the office per week and offer relocation assistance to new employees. In this role, you will: Build and run the core operating rhythm for Hardware Marketing, including planning cycles, planning reviews, weekly priorities, decision forums, risk tracking, and leadership-ready updates. Partner with Hardware Marketing leadership to translate business and product priorities into clear workstreams, owners, milestones,

About the team OpenAI's mission is to ensure that artificial general intelligence benefits all of humanity. In support of that mission, the ChatGPT Ads team is building advertising products that help businesses reach customers in useful, trusted, and responsible ways. The Ads Strategy, Planning, and Operations team is responsible for building the operating foundation for OpenAI's advertising business: GTM systems, segmentation, coverage, planning, forecasting, business rhythms, sales programs, incentives, and scalable execution across advertisers, agencies, partners, resellers, and internal teams. This team sits at the intersection of Sales, Product, Engineering, Finance, Legal, Policy, Marketing, Partnerships, and Customer Success. About the role We’re looking for a Sales Strategy & Operations Lead to help build the GTM operating system for ChatGPT Ads. This person will work across sales strategy, planning, systems, segmentation, forecasting, operating rhythm, sales programs, and commercial execution to help the Ads business scale with clarity, speed, and control. This role is for someone who can move between strategy and execution: able to define operating models, build analytical frameworks, run cross-functional planning processes, improve GTM systems and data quality, and program manage high-priority sales initiatives. The ideal candidate has meaningful experience in digital advertising, media, adtech, marketplace, or platform businesses and understands the complexity of scaling sales motions across direct sales, agencies, partners, resellers, outsourced channels, and self-serve. In this role, you’ll: Help build the operating foundation for ChatGPT Ads across GTM systems, segmentation, coverage, forecasting, sales planning, and business reviews. Partner with Sales, Ads Ops, Product, Engineering, Strategic Finance, Legal, Policy, Marketing, Partnerships, Customer Success, and Data teams to translate strategy into execution. Develop objective frameworks for ac

Who are we? Cohere is the leading security-first enterprise AI company. We build cutting-edge foundation AI models and end-to-end products that are designed to solve real-world business problems. We’re training and deploying frontier models for enterprises who are building AI systems. We believe that our work is instrumental to the widespread adoption of AI and we are looking for folks that want to be part of that. We obsess over what we build. Each one of us is responsible for contributing to increasing the capabilities of our models and the value they drive for our customers. Cohere is a team of researchers, engineers, designers, and more, who are all passionate about their craft. We are a global technology company headquartered in Toronto with key offices in London, New York City, San Francisco, Montreal, Paris, Berlin and Seoul. Join us! About the Role Cohere is seeking a Global Public Policy Manager to lead policy engagement on compute infrastructure, export controls, AI competitiveness, and sovereign AI strategies. Governments increasingly view AI as critical national infrastructure and are investing heavily in compute capacity, energy resources, and domestic AI ecosystems. This role will help position Cohere as a trusted partner in emerging discussions around AI infrastructure, national competitiveness, and sovereign AI deployment. Key Responsibilities Monitor and analyze developments related to AI infrastructure, data centers, energy policy, semiconductor policy, export controls, and national AI strategies. Develop policy positions on sovereign AI, compute access, digital sovereignty, and AI competitiveness. Support engagement with governments developing AI infrastructure investment programs and national AI initiatives. Collaborate with commercial, product, and corporate development teams on strategic opportunities involving public-private partnerships. Represent Cohere in policy discussions related to AI infrastructure, energy requirements, and technology c

Who are we? Cohere is the leading security-first enterprise AI company. We build cutting-edge foundation AI models and end-to-end products that are designed to solve real-world business problems. We’re training and deploying frontier models for enterprises who are building AI systems. We believe that our work is instrumental to the widespread adoption of AI and we are looking for folks that want to be part of that. We obsess over what we build. Each one of us is responsible for contributing to increasing the capabilities of our models and the value they drive for our customers. Cohere is a team of researchers, engineers, designers, and more, who are all passionate about their craft. We are a global technology company headquartered in Toronto with key offices in London, New York City, San Francisco, Montreal, Paris, Berlin and Seoul. Join us! About the Role Cohere is seeking an Indirect Tax Sr. Associate / Tax Manager to manage global indirect tax compliance, strategy, and reporting, focusing on VAT/GST and sales tax in Canada, the U.S., and other key markets. You’ll manage tax audits, optimize processes, collaborate cross-functionally, drive process and efficiency initiatives, and implement strategies to minimize liabilities while ensuring compliance. Key Responsibilities Manage end-to-end indirect tax compliance, including filings, registrations, and remittances for global VAT/GST, and US sales and use tax Streamline tax workflows, leverage tax automation tools and AI, and enhance data governance to improve efficiency Develop and implement indirect tax strategies aligned with Cohere’s business growth, product offerings (e.g., SaaS, AI services, Sovereign AI), and international expansion. Manage responses to tax audits and inquiries from authorities. Identify and mitigate tax risks, ensuring alignment with global tax regulations and internal policies Address digital services taxes and electronic services implications. Partner with Finance, Legal, and Product teams t

Who are we? Cohere is the leading security-first enterprise AI company. We build cutting-edge foundation AI models and end-to-end products that are designed to solve real-world business problems. We’re training and deploying frontier models for enterprises who are building AI systems. We believe that our work is instrumental to the widespread adoption of AI and we are looking for folks that want to be part of that. We obsess over what we build. Each one of us is responsible for contributing to increasing the capabilities of our models and the value they drive for our customers. Cohere is a team of researchers, engineers, designers, and more, who are all passionate about their craft. We are a global technology company headquartered in Toronto with key offices in London, New York City, San Francisco, Montreal, Paris, Berlin and Seoul. Join us! Role Overview: Cohere is searching for an experienced Head of Strategic Finance who will own financial planning, business forecasting, product pricing strategy, and assist in fundraising initiatives. In this leadership role, you and your team will provide analysis to support contract negotiations, growth opportunities, and influence corporate strategy. Reporting to the CFO and partnering with the Executive Team, you will lead financial, strategic, and fundraising insights to drive operational performance. Key Responsibilities: Lead strategic financial planning, budgeting, forecasting, long-term planning, and assist in fundraising strategy development. Partner with the CFO and Investor Relations to assist to prepare materials for fundraising, investor relations, and board reporting. Partner with senior leadership to evaluate key business initiatives Lead and perform financial analyses for a variety of strategic decisions, including Annual Operating Plan, M&A, strategic investments, partnerships, capital market transactions, and fundraising opportunities. Provide recommendations to executive management based on both financial

Who are we? Cohere is the leading security-first enterprise AI company. We build cutting-edge foundation AI models and end-to-end products that are designed to solve real-world business problems. We’re training and deploying frontier models for enterprises who are building AI systems. We believe that our work is instrumental to the widespread adoption of AI and we are looking for folks that want to be part of that. We obsess over what we build. Each one of us is responsible for contributing to increasing the capabilities of our models and the value they drive for our customers. Cohere is a team of researchers, engineers, designers, and more, who are all passionate about their craft. We are a global technology company headquartered in Toronto with key offices in London, New York City, San Francisco, Montreal, Paris, Berlin and Seoul. Join us! Who are we? Cohere is at the forefront of AI innovation, building cutting-edge language models and AI systems. Our Finance team plays a critical role in supporting our rapid growth and ensuring operational excellence. We value technical expertise, collaborative problem-solving, and a commitment to accuracy and compliance. This role offers the opportunity to make a significant impact on our financial infrastructure while working at the intersection of finance and transformative technology. As we scale our business and navigate an evolving financial landscape, you'll play a pivotal role in driving operational excellence and serving as a key partner on accounting implications of major business decisions. In this role, you will: Lead and own the complete month-end close process, ensuring timely and accurate financial reporting across all entities Oversee all audit activities, partnering with external auditors and managing internal control documentation Collaborate on special projects including system implementations, process improvements, and acquisition integration efforts Direct general ledger operations, account reconciliations,

Who are we? Cohere is the leading security-first enterprise AI company. We build cutting-edge foundation AI models and end-to-end products that are designed to solve real-world business problems. We’re training and deploying frontier models for enterprises who are building AI systems. We believe that our work is instrumental to the widespread adoption of AI and we are looking for folks that want to be part of that. We obsess over what we build. Each one of us is responsible for contributing to increasing the capabilities of our models and the value they drive for our customers. Cohere is a team of researchers, engineers, designers, and more, who are all passionate about their craft. We are a global technology company headquartered in Toronto with key offices in London, New York City, San Francisco, Montreal, Paris, Berlin and Seoul. Join us! Who are we? Cohere is at the forefront of AI innovation, building cutting-edge language models and AI systems. Our Finance team plays a critical role in supporting our rapid growth and ensuring operational excellence. We value technical expertise, collaborative problem-solving, and a commitment to accuracy and compliance. This role offers the opportunity to make a significant impact on our financial infrastructure while working at the intersection of finance and transformative technology. As we scale our business and navigate an evolving financial landscape, you'll play a pivotal role in driving operational excellence and serving as a key partner on accounting implications of major business decisions. In this role, you will: Own the full lifecycle management of our NetSuite ERP environment, including architecture design, configuration optimization, integration development, and strategic roadmap planning to support General Ledger, AP, AR, Procure-to-Pay, Fixed Assets, Revenue Recognition, Audit, and International Consolidations & Reporting Drive end-to-end process excellence across Order-to-Cash and Procure-to-Pay workflows,

Who are we? Cohere is the leading security-first enterprise AI company. We build cutting-edge foundation AI models and end-to-end products that are designed to solve real-world business problems. We’re training and deploying frontier models for enterprises who are building AI systems. We believe that our work is instrumental to the widespread adoption of AI and we are looking for folks that want to be part of that. We obsess over what we build. Each one of us is responsible for contributing to increasing the capabilities of our models and the value they drive for our customers. Cohere is a team of researchers, engineers, designers, and more, who are all passionate about their craft. We are a global technology company headquartered in Toronto with key offices in London, New York City, San Francisco, Montreal, Paris, Berlin and Seoul. Join us! NOTE: This Senior Staff level career opportunity is a senior level individual contributor role. As a Senior Manager of Financial Planning & Analysis at Cohere, your responsibilities include: Establish and maintain comprehensive departmental forecasting processes with regular vs. actuals analysis Design, implement, and track key performance indicators (KPIs) across the organization Build scalable financial models and planning frameworks to support rapid business growth Collaborate with department heads to understand business needs and translate them into financial requirements Conduct variance analysis and provide actionable insights to leadership on financial performance Develop and maintain financial reporting dashboards for executive leadership Drive process improvements and automation in FP&A workflows Partner with cross-functional teams on strategic initiatives and M&A activities Ensure compliance with financial reporting standards and internal controls Strategic Planning: Lead the annual and multi-year long-range planning (LRP) processes. You will bridge the gap between high-level vision and granular departmenta

About the Team We are a small and fast-moving partnerships team that shapes and executes OpenAI’s most important collaborations. Your mission is to design and operate the partner program for technology partners, ISVs, and marketplace participants. You will turn partner strategy into a simple, scalable experience from recruitment and onboarding through enablement, benefits, performance management, and growth. About the Role You are an operational builder with strong judgment, high ownership, and a track record of turning ambiguous goals into clear programs and measurable outcomes. You are comfortable working across product, engineering, GTM, marketing, operations, legal, finance, security, and support. You balance rigorous systems and governance with a thoughtful partner experience, and you can move quickly as the ecosystem evolves. In this role, you will: Design and run the end-to-end ISV and marketplace partner program. Define partner eligibility, segmentation, tiers, benefits, requirements, and lifecycle stages. Build repeatable onboarding, technical enablement, validation, listing, launch, and growth journeys. Establish program policies, documentation, service levels, governance, and escalation paths. Create partner communications, education, office hours, playbooks, and self-service resources. Develop program metrics and dashboards covering recruitment, activation, solution quality, adoption, revenue impact, and partner health. Coordinate launches and program changes across product, engineering, GTM, marketing, legal, security, finance, support, and operations. Capture partner feedback and translate it into program, product, and operating improvements. You might thrive in this role if you have: 8+ years of experience in partner programs, marketplaces, ecosystem operations, business operations, or program management. Proven experience building or scaling a technology partner, ISV, or marketplace program. Exceptional ability to convert ambiguous goals into clear p

About the team The Partnerships team supports OpenAI’s mission by building and managing external relationships that expand product reach, accelerate adoption, strengthen strategic capabilities, and help the company scale responsibly. We partner across the organization to develop ecosystem strategy, create shared value, and support relationships that are critical to OpenAI’s growth. About the role We’re looking for a Partnerships Manager to lead high-impact relationships across technology, product, go-to-market, and operations. You’ll manage a portfolio of strategic external partners—including technology platforms, distribution channels, service providers, and other ecosystem partners—and work closely with internal teams to turn business needs into effective partnership strategies. This role combines relationship management, commercial judgment, and hands-on execution. You’ll help evaluate new partners, negotiate agreements, improve existing programs, and create the operating mechanisms needed to manage partnerships at scale. This role is based in San Francisco or New York in office 3 days a week. In this role, you will Own and deepen relationships with key strategic and ecosystem partners. Develop partnership strategies aligned with OpenAI’s product, go-to-market, and operational priorities. Source, evaluate, and onboard new partners and service providers. Lead commercial negotiations in partnership with Legal, Business Operations, Procurement, Security, and other stakeholders. Translate complex business requirements into clear partner selection criteria and operating plans. Establish performance metrics, governance processes, and regular business reviews for strategic relationships. Identify opportunities to improve economics, service quality, resilience, and scalability across the partner portfolio. Coordinate cross-functional initiatives involving Sales, Product, Engineering, Legal, Security, Marketing, Business Operations, and other partner-facing teams. Monitor

About the Team OpenAI is building the next generation of advertising for an AI-powered world. As AI changes how people discover information, explore possibilities, and make decisions, we believe this presents a huge opportunity for small and medium-sized businesses to connect with customers in new ways. The SMB Ads Marketing team is building this opportunity from the ground up. We define how businesses discover OpenAI’s advertising platform, become successful advertisers, and grow their investment over time. Working closely with Product, Ads Engineering, Data Science, and Sales, we combine customer insight, rigorous experimentation, and fast execution to turn early opportunities into scalable growth. About the Role The SMB Innovation Sales & Strategy Lead will identify, incubate and scale new revenue opportunities across OpenAI’s SMB Ads business. This foundational role combines strategic thinking, analytical rigor and hands-on execution to develop differentiated customer propositions, validate product opportunities and launch new go-to-market programs. Working across Product, Engineering, Sales, Marketing and Data Science, this person will lead initiatives from opportunity assessment through customer discovery, commercial pilots and transition to scale. The remit includes industry-specific opportunities, differentiated customer engagement models and innovative approaches across self-serve, sales-assisted and partner-led channels. The lead will also partner with SMB leadership and the Strategy & Operations team to inform the overall SMB strategy, contributing customer segmentation, commercial insights and evidence from incubation programs to broader planning and investment decisions. In This Role, You Will Identify untapped opportunities across SMB segments, industries, and channels. Build business cases and launch pilots to validate customer demand and commercial potential. Design new acquisition, activation, and expansion programs, including industry-speci