Lead Ai Engineer in United States

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 build and lead our business with independent software vendors, from native AI companies building in our programs to technology companies taking new products to market with OpenAI’s models and products. You will help partners build, launch, and grow differentiated products while working closely with our sales and product organizations. About the Role You are a senior partnerships leader with strong judgment, high ownership, and a track record of building consequential ISV relationships. You can establish durable executive partnerships, lead complex product and commercial negotiations, and move fluently from market strategy to integration, launch, adoption, and growth. You are highly commercial, technically fluent, and comfortable operating where there is no playbook. In this role, you will: Define OpenAI’s ISV partnership strategy, priorities, segmentation, and business goals. Recruit and manage a portfolio of high-impact software partners across horizontal and vertical applications. Structure and negotiate partnerships spanning product integration, model adoption, commercial terms, distribution, and joint go-to-market. Develop joint business plans and executive governance with strategic partners. Help partners move from initial build to launch, customer adoption, expansion, and scaled consumption. Create repeatable co-build, co-sell, co-market, and marketplace motions. Serve as the voice of ISVs internally, shaping product requirements, developer experience, economics, and partner programs. Track partner pipeline, launches, adoption, consumption, customer impact, and ecosystem growth. Establish the team structure and operating model needed to scale the ISV business. You might thrive in this role if you have: 12+ years of experience in technology partnerships, business development, platform ecosystems, or enterprise softw

About the Team The Product Marketing team shapes how customers understand, adopt, and realize value from OpenAI’s technology. We work across Product, Research, Sales, Solutions, Partnerships, and Customer Success to bring customer insight into our product strategy and translate technical capabilities into clear, credible stories and solutions. About the Role AI becomes meaningful when it helps people do the work that matters to them. For a finance team, that might mean understanding complex information faster. For a healthcare provider, it might mean navigating clinical workflows more effectively. For a sales or marketing team, it might mean creating entirely new ways to reach and serve customers. We’re looking for a senior product marketing leader to shape how OpenAI serves the business functions and industries where our technology can make a meaningful difference. You’ll define how our models and products meet the needs of teams such as sales, marketing, and finance, as well as industries including financial services, healthcare, and retail. Working closely with Product, Research, Sales, Solutions, and Partnerships, you’ll identify important customer problems, influence product strategy, and build relationships with the ecosystem partners and data providers needed to bring complete solutions to market. You’ll also build and lead the product marketing team responsible for turning these opportunities into durable customer value. You might thrive in this role if you: Have 12+ years of experience in product marketing, industry marketing, solutions marketing, or enterprise go-to-market, ideally across enterprise software, cloud, data, developer, or AI platforms. Have built and led high-performing teams, mentored senior marketers, and know how to create clarity in fast-moving, ambiguous environments. Understand how different industries and business functions evaluate technology, adopt new tools, and define value. Have shaped positioning and go-to-market strategies for c

About the Team OpenAI’s Central Procurement – Hardware Operations team is building scalable, AI-enabled operating foundations for a rapidly growing hardware footprint. We help the business move quickly while maintaining the data quality and controls needed to manage financial and operational risk responsibly. As OpenAI scales across R&D, new-product introduction, manufacturing, and third-party custody models, we are building the foundations to absorb complexity without adding unnecessary friction. That means establishing practical standards, strengthening discipline where it matters, using AI thoughtfully, and continuously improving how teams manage hardware operations. About the Role We are hiring an Asset Compliance Program Lead to establish the cross-business framework that gives OpenAI reliable lifecycle visibility over hardware-related financial assets and capital equipment. You will define the controls, systems roadmap, and evidence practices needed to manage those assets within OpenAI’s financial-control scope. This is a senior individual-contributor role in Central Procurement – Hardware Operations within Finance. Distinct from sourcing and transaction execution, you will partner with hardware business units, Accounting, Financial Risk Management, Procurement, contract manufacturers, and other third-party custodians to deploy practical operating mechanisms. These mechanisms will connect how assets are purchased, built, received, moved, held, verified, and retired with the ownership, data, reporting, and evidence needed for financial governance. The role covers those assets regardless of location or custody, including manufacturing equipment and tooling, supplier- and contract-manufacturer-held assets, leased assets, and other third-party-held equipment. You will stay close to the operational details—how assets move, where records diverge, which controls are not working, and where evidence is incomplete—and use that view to strengthen processes, accountab

About the Team OpenAI Finance helps ensure the organization is positioned for long-term success as we pursue our mission. The Strategic Sourcing & Procurement team enables OpenAI to scale responsibly, securely, and at speed by helping teams choose the right external partners, structure strong commercial agreements, and build resilient supplier ecosystems. We work at the intersection of innovation and execution, partnering closely with leaders across the company to turn rapidly evolving needs into scalable, compliant, and economically sound solutions. Professional services are a critical source of specialized expertise, capacity, and operational leverage across OpenAI. Our work spans consulting and advisory services, finance and accounting, legal, people and talent, managed services, and other enterprise capabilities. Done well, sourcing becomes a source of trust and momentum—helping teams move faster with the right partners, clearer outcomes, stronger economics, and appropriate safeguards. About the Role We are seeking a Strategic Sourcing Lead to own and execute OpenAI’s category strategy for Professional Services. This is an experienced individual-contributor role for a high-velocity, hands-on sourcing operator who can set category priorities, own complex work end to end, exercise sound judgment, influence senior stakeholders, and build scalable category mechanisms in a rapidly growing organization. You will turn incomplete information, shifting priorities, and unclear decision paths into practical next steps and disciplined execution. You will manage a broad portfolio of services engagements—from strategic advisory relationships and enterprise programs to high-volume statements of work. Partnering directly with leaders across Finance, Accounting, Legal, People, Extended Workforce, and business teams, you will set category priorities and translate needs into clear sourcing strategies, executable engagement models, and measurable outcomes. You will operate inde

About the Team The Consumer Product Marketing team helps people understand how ChatGPT can fit into their lives. We connect customer insight with product strategy and development, working across disciplines to bring meaningful products to people around the world. Our consumer subscriptions work focuses on showing people what they get with a paid ChatGPT plan and helping them decide when upgrading makes sense. About the Role As the Product Marketing Lead, Consumer Subscriptions, you will lead the product marketing strategy for ChatGPT's consumer subscription portfolio, including Go, Plus, and Pro. You will shape how customers discover and adopt paid plans while bringing a clear customer perspective to product and business decisions about how those plans are designed and tiered. You will partner closely with Product, Pricing, and Growth to define each plan's audience, positioning, value proposition, and priority use cases, and bring evidence-backed recommendations to pricing and packaging discussions. You will be accountable for driving paid-plan adoption and will lead work across product launches, plan education, premium positioning, and the customer story on pricing and plan pages across ChatGPT.com and OpenAI.com . This role calls for an individual contributor who can turn customer, market, competitive, and behavioral insights into clear subscription strategies and customer stories. You will guide senior stakeholders through tradeoffs, align partners without formal authority, adapt positioning for global markets, build scalable frameworks, and mentor peers. Success in this role means helping more free users recognize the value of ChatGPT's paid plans and turning that understanding into measurable growth in free-to-paid conversion. This role is based in San Francisco, CA. We use a hybrid work model of 3 days in the office per week and offer relocation assistance to new employees. In this role, you will: Lead consumer subscription product marketing across ChatGPT's p

About the Team OpenAI's mission is to ensure that general-purpose artificial intelligence benefits all of humanity. Our Communications team includes External Communications, Internal Communications, and other strategic communications functions. The team's role is to clearly and authentically explain our technology, values, and approach to safely building powerful AI. About the Role We are seeking an exceptional communications professional to lead communications support for OpenAI's partnerships with federal, state, and local governments and our broader public-sector enterprise work. This person will help tell the story of how governments are using AI, support major customer and partner moments, and communicate about government work happening across priority areas including cybersecurity, biodefense, national security, science. This role will partner closely with public-sector go-to-market and partnerships, Global Affairs, legal, product, research, safety, and security teams to develop clear external communications for the public, media, policymakers, and customers. The ideal candidate will bring strong strategic and tactical communications judgment, move quickly and collaboratively on complex issues, and have a passion for technology and storytelling. In this role, you will: Developing and executing communications plans that educate press, policymakers, customers, and the public about OpenAI's government partnerships and public-sector work Building proactive campaigns and customer stories that demonstrate how AI can improve public services, strengthen government workforces, and support critical missions Supporting communications across priority areas including cybersecurity, biodefense, national security, science, and science. Building deep relationships with national, state, local, technology, policy, and enterprise media and managing inbound requests Partnering cross-functionally with Global Affairs, public-sector go-to-market, legal, product, research, safety, se

About the Team OpenAI, in close collaboration with our capital partners, is embarking on a journey to build the world’s most advanced AI infrastructure ecosystem. The Industrial Compute team is central to this mission, setting the core infra strategy and implementing this vision. From site selection to the buildout process, this team sits at the intersection of commercial, technical, strategy, and operations, interacting with teams and executives inside and outside of OpenAI. About the Role OpenAI is seeking a Real Estate Lead to own land acquisition strategy and site-control execution for our next-generation data center portfolio across the U.S. This role sits at the front end of infrastructure delivery, translating market intelligence, broker/developer relationships, and commercial judgment into credible shovel-ready positions that meet OpenAI’s power, land, permitting, and expansion requirements. The Real Estate Lead will not operate as a traditional transactional real estate function. The scope is to help shape where OpenAI can build, secure the right land positions early, structure defensible commercial terms, and coordinate the legal, technical, and development work required to move opportunities from sourced lead to controlled site and ultimately to readiness handoff. This is an individual contributor lead role and does not have direct reports initially. The role also owns market prioritization and portfolio-level acquisition strategy across target geographies, and is expected to run multiple negotiations in parallel while translating site-control work into executive-ready acquisition recommendations. Key Responsibilities Own market prioritization and portfolio acquisition strategy across target geographies, including scenario analysis for speed, scale, expansion potential, and risk-adjusted economics. Proactively source and evaluate land parcels at scale to support long-term data center growth across priority markets. Build and manage a national pipeline of

About the Team OpenAI, in close collaboration with our capital partners, is building the world’s most advanced AI infrastructure ecosystem. The Power & Land team owns the energy strategy required to secure reliable, scalable, and economically resilient power for OpenAI’s global data center portfolio. About the Role The Power Trading Lead will own commodity hedging strategy and execution across OpenAI’s data center power portfolio. This role will translate large, dynamic electricity and fuel exposures into practical hedging, procurement, and risk-management strategies that protect infrastructure economics while preserving flexibility for growth. This is an individual contributor lead role and does not have direct reports initially. The role will work across power markets, utility tariffs, retail and wholesale supply structures, natural gas and power hedges, renewable and clean firm products, and portfolio risk analytics to support long-term compute growth. Key Responsibilities Develop and maintain OpenAI’s commodity hedging strategy across electricity, natural gas, and related energy exposures for data center operations and growth. Quantify portfolio exposure by market, site, load shape, tenor, tariff, and supply structure, and translate that exposure into clear hedging recommendations. Evaluate and execute hedging structures including fixed-price supply, forwards, swaps, options, retail supply products, congestion and basis risk mitigation, and related instruments where appropriate. Partner with utilities, suppliers, traders, banks, consultants, and market counterparties to source competitive products and improve risk-adjusted energy economics. Build decision frameworks for when to hedge, how much to hedge, and which risks to retain across different stages of site development, construction, and operations. Coordinate with finance, treasury, legal, procurement, energy regulatory, sustainability, and site-readiness teams to ensure hedging strategy aligns with broa

About the Team OpenAI is evaluating multiple infrastructure pathways, including powered land, colo/BTS, and NeoCloud opportunities. The Site Readiness & Development team provides the diligence layer needed to compare opportunities, identify risk, and support credible deployment decisions across those pathways. About the Role The NeoCloud & Colo Due Diligence Lead will evaluate third-party infrastructure opportunities where OpenAI is considering deployment through NeoCloud, colo, or BTS structures. This role will focus on facility and deployment readiness, including MEP readiness, rack strategy, developer capability, facility design, power deliverability, schedule credibility, and operating assumptions. Unlike the land diligence team, this role is centered on technical and operational readiness of third-party infrastructure rather than greenfield site master planning, civil development, and entitlement strategy. This is an individual contributor lead role and does not have direct reports initially. The role determines whether each opportunity is fit-for-use and fit-for-service against OpenAI facility, rack, power, network, reliability, and operational standards; identifies material deficiencies and tracks remediation with developers/operators; and evaluates commissioning, validation, AHJ/code, and deployment interfaces such as structured cabling, network readiness, and high-density rack support where relevant. Key Responsibilities Lead diligence on NeoCloud, colo, and BTS opportunities across technical and operational readiness dimensions. Assess each opportunity against OpenAI facility, rack, power, network, reliability, and operational standards to determine deployment fit. Validate MEP readiness, rack deployment strategy, facility design assumptions, power deliverability, and schedule credibility. Identify material deficiencies and work with developers/operators to define remediation plans, owners, timing, and residual risk. Review reliability, availabilit

About the Team The Procurement organization enables OpenAI's mission by ensuring every dollar is spent responsibly, compliantly, and efficiently. Within Procurement, the Center of Excellence (COE) team is responsible for designing and scaling the processes, systems, governance, and operating models that enable Procurement to grow effectively alongside the business. This role partners closely with Procurement and cross-functional teams to simplify how work gets requested, routed, approved, and managed across the spend lifecycle. By combining program leadership, process design, and change enablement, we help Procurement scale while maintaining strong controls and delivering an exceptional experience for employees and business partners. About the Role As Procurement Portfolio & Delivery Lead, you will lead complex, cross-functional initiatives that span Strategic Sourcing, Procure-to-Pay (P2P), Extended Workforce, Travel & Expense, Corporate Card, Risk, Legal, Finance, and Technology teams. You will not only drive project and program execution, but also actively contribute to solution design, requirements development, process optimization, testing, rollout planning, and stakeholder alignment. This is a highly collaborative role for someone who thrives in fast-moving environments, can bring structure to ambiguity, and is equally comfortable facilitating executive discussions, building project plans, and rolling up their sleeves to help move initiatives forward. This role is based in San Francisco, CA. We use a hybrid work model of 3 days in the office per week and offer relocation assistance to new employees. In this role, you will: Lead cross-functional procurement transformation programs spanning Strategic Sourcing, P2P, Extended Workforce, T&E, Corporate Card, Risk, and Procurement Systems. Develop and maintain the Procurement transformation roadmap, partnering across teams to identify opportunities, prioritize initiatives, map dependencies, sequence work

About the Team OpenAI, in close collaboration with our capital partners, is embarking on a journey to build the world’s most advanced AI infrastructure ecosystem. The Industrial Compute team is central to this mission, setting the core infra strategy and implementing this vision. From site selection to the buildout process, this team sits at the intersection of commercial, technical, strategy, and operations, interacting with teams and executives inside and outside of OpenAI. About the Role The Community Engagement Lead will serve as the primary liaison between OpenAI and the communities where it plans to develop data centers, including Effingham County and the greater Savannah Metropolitan Area. This role ensures that OpenAI builds strong, trust-based relationships with local stakeholders, communicates proactively about our projects, and integrates community priorities into our development approach. The role spans engagement, communications, and reputation management, and will partner closely with the Economic Development and Environmental leads. Key Responsibilities Build and maintain relationships with local leaders, community organizations, NGOs, and residents. Develop and execute community engagement strategies for new and existing sites. Represent OpenAI in public forums, hearings, and community events. Partner with the Economic Development Lead on incentive compliance and community benefits. Partner with the Environmental Lead on communicating environmental stewardship and sustainability efforts. Develop proactive communications to address concerns, highlight benefits, and reduce risk of opposition. Monitor community sentiment and advise executives on risks and opportunities. Create a community engagement playbook that can scale across geographies. Qualifications 8+ years in community affairs, public engagement, or corporate communications. Proven track record engaging diverse community stakeholders for large infrastructure or technology projects. Strong publ

About the Team OpenAI’s Finance and Revenue Operations organization builds the commercial infrastructure that enables the business to scale with speed, discipline, and financial integrity. Deal Desk operates as the commercial strategy and governance function at the intersection of Sales, Partnerships, Legal, Technical Revenue, Finance, Order Management, Billing Operations, Product, and GTM Systems. We architect complex enterprise transactions, turn ambiguity into executable decisions, and create the guardrails that let the business move quickly with operational and financial discipline. As OpenAI’s enterprise business grows in scale and complexity, Deal Desk defines how novel commercial motions become durable operating capabilities. We convert precedent-setting deal decisions into repeatable policy, controls, workflows, and systems requirements. About the Role We are hiring a Strategic Deals & Commercial Architecture Lead to lead the structuring and governance of OpenAI’s most complex enterprise transactions. This is a senior individual-contributor leadership role for someone with exceptional enterprise deal judgment, operational rigor, and a builder mindset. You will serve as the commercial architect for high-stakes opportunities, translating ambiguous requirements into coherent deal structures, approval strategies, and executable quote-to-cash plans. Your work will shape more than individual transactions. You will establish decision principles and precedent, clarify tradeoffs, and turn recurring patterns into scalable guidance, controls, systems requirements, and enablement. You will own the commercial decision and governance layer that helps strategic opportunities move decisively while managing downstream risk across contracting, billing, revenue recognition, provisioning, reporting, controls, auditability, and customer experience. The right candidate can move seamlessly between advising on a single high-value transaction and improving the operating model be

About the Team OpenAI, in close collaboration with our capital partners, is embarking on a journey to build the world’s most advanced AI infrastructure ecosystem. The Infrastructure team is central to this mission, setting the core strategy and implementing the vision. From site selection to deployment to operations, this team sits at the intersection of commercial, technical, and operational domains, interacting with experts and executives inside and outside of OpenAI. We design and operate mission-critical facilities that support cutting-edge AI workloads at scale. About the Role We are seeking a Facilities Operations Lead to support the commissioning, deployment, and long-term operation of our next-generation AI data centers. This role bridges the interface between data center construction and hardware landing, ensuring seamless integration of mission-critical infrastructure with hardware deployment timelines. You will define and execute commissioning plans, support infrastructure bring-up, and take ownership of operations and maintenance for cutting-edge, large-scale, AI data centers. You will collaborate closely with design, construction, and hardware teams to define repeatable processes for new data center builds and lead hands-on operations to uphold the performance and reliability of our deployed infrastructure. Key Responsibilities Define and execute sequences of operations, commissioning steps, and bring-up processes for mission-critical data center facilities. Interface with the design and hardware teams to define deployment procedures tailored to each data center and hardware configuration. Oversee installation, commissioning, and operational readiness of large-scale data center campuses. Manage monitoring, maintenance, and quality control of the data center infrastructure, including high-performance liquid cooling systems. Develop on-site operations staffing strategy. Develop and enforce procedures for planed and unplanned downtime and SLAs for critical

About the Team Like every team at OpenAI, the Marketing team contributes to our broader mission of ensuring responsible and widespread adoption of artificial intelligence. With that aim in mind, we are responsible for developing and executing strategies that drive awareness, engagement, and usage for OpenAI’s products and platform amongst our core audiences. Our focus extends beyond just promoting product features; we aim to provide valuable insights and resources that help our users make the most out of AI technologies. The Marketing Insights & Analytics team aims to understand the markets, audiences, behaviors, attitudes and needs to shape outreach strategies and inform product and business decisions. We’re the strategic partner that discovers insights, specifically: foundational understanding, marketing strategy, thought leadership, measurement and tracking. About the Role You will be the Market Research Lead that translates insights into actionable marketing plans and executions, drive business results, and orient the team towards strategic thinking to drive brand outcomes. This is critical as we hope to reach millions of users and businesses worldwide. This role can be based in San Francisco, CA or NYC, NY utilizing a hybrid work model (3 days per week in-office). In this role, you will: Play an integral part of Marketing and be a strategic partner to brand, product marketing, creative, product and beyond. Design, execute, and deliver high-impact research using mixed methods. Work on a diverse portfolio of business challenges - how do we reach the next billion people, how do we grow internationally, how do we position our suite of products, and how do we ship joy to our customers. Translate business questions into research plans. Translate data into clear, compelling narratives. Develop deep empathy for developers, builders, and technical decision-makers, understanding their workflows, motivations, and pain points across the lifecycle Shape go-to-market str

About the Role We’re looking for a senior Strategic Finance Lead to help shape and execute OpenAI’s financial strategy across some of the company’s most important long-term investments and growth priorities. This high-impact role sits at the intersection of corporate finance, capital markets, treasury, and cross-functional execution. In this role, you will: Shape financial strategy for major long-term investments, capital structure decisions, and broader strategic decision-making. Build rigorous financial models and scalable frameworks to evaluate strategic initiatives, funding options, tradeoffs, and risk. Structure and help execute complex strategic initiatives in partnership with cross-functional teams. Translate ambiguous technical and business inputs into clear recommendations and decision-ready materials for executives, the board, and other senior stakeholders. Lead high-priority cross-functional workstreams from concept through execution, bringing strong judgment, ownership, and communication in fast-moving situations. Help build an AI-native finance organization by applying AI to improve workflows, decision-making, and execution across finance processes. You might thrive in this role if you have: 12+ years of experience across strategic finance, corporate finance, capital markets, investment banking, infrastructure finance, or related fields. A strong understanding of capital structure, financing strategy, debt markets, and large-scale investment evaluation. Experience operating in high-growth, high-complexity environments with the ability to navigate ambiguity and move quickly. Exceptional financial modeling, strategic thinking, and problem-solving capabilities. Strong executive presence with the ability to communicate clearly across investors, executives, and technical stakeholders. A high-agency operating style that combines strategic perspective with a willingness to build directly. Excitement around using AI as a core operating advantage, with a mindset