We believe that the way people interact with their finances will drastically improve in the next few years. We’re dedicated to empowering this transformation by building the tools and experiences that thousands of developers use to create their own products. Plaid powers the tools millions of people rely on to live a healthier financial life. We work with thousands of companies like Venmo, SoFi, several of the Fortune 500, and many of the largest banks to make it easy for people to connect their financial accounts to the apps and services they want to use. Plaid’s network covers 12,000 financial institutions across the US, Canada, UK and Europe. Founded in 2013, the company is headquartered in San Francisco with offices in New York, Washington D.C., London and Amsterdam. The Enterprise Partnerships team at Plaid works with some of the most influential enterprise companies, helping bring Plaid’s solutions to market through high-impact partnerships. In this role, you’ll lead the acquisition of new partners and play a meaningful role in expanding a fast-growing, strategically important part of the business. In this role, you'll be the primary point of contact for Enterprise partners with a specific focus on managing our payment partners looking to leverage Plaid in a number of ways from Pay-by-Bank to account funding to KYC. You own the full partner lifecycle: from technical integration and "first customer live" milestones to scaling volumes and driving product expansion. You are a "corporate athlete" who thrives in ambiguity: you are just as comfortable diving into technical API specifications with an engineer as you are negotiating commercial terms with a C-suite executive. You will act as the internal quarterback, driving cross-functional work streams across Product, Legal, Engineering, and Marketing to align internal resources with partner needs. Successful candidates bring a blend of commercial prowess, high-level business acumen, and a proven track record of infl
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We believe that the way people interact with their finances will drastically improve in the next few years. We’re dedicated to empowering this transformation by building the tools and experiences that thousands of developers use to create their own products. Plaid powers the tools millions of people rely on to live a healthier financial life. We work with thousands of companies like Venmo, SoFi, several of the Fortune 500, and many of the largest banks to make it easy for people to connect their financial accounts to the apps and services they want to use. Plaid’s network covers 12,000 financial institutions across the US, Canada, UK and Europe. Founded in 2013, the company is headquartered in San Francisco with offices in New York, Washington D.C., London and Amsterdam. Plaid’s Partnerships team unlocks “one to many” relationships and product partnerships with technology platforms to allow more customers and consumers to benefit from Plaid’s solutions. This role will focus specifically on partnerships that unlock new markets and scale new use cases alongside our Credit Team. Our Credit Team is building the future of lending by making cash flow data as ubiquitous and trusted as traditional credit data. Our mission is to expand access to more affordable credit by empowering lenders with real-time financial data that improves risk assessment and decision-making at scale. In this role, you will lead partnerships that make it easier for lenders to adopt cash flow underwriting. The potential partner ecosystem is broad and includes the software platforms, capital providers, and other companies involved throughout the lending lifecycle. You will assess Plaid’s partnership needs, identify and prioritize strategic partners, develop creative commercial structures, and negotiate complex agreements. You will work closely with internal and external stakeholders across product, engineering, legal, go-to-market, and other functions to build partnerships that create meaningful valu
We believe that the way people interact with their finances will drastically improve in the next few years. We’re dedicated to empowering this transformation by building the tools and experiences that thousands of developers use to create their own products. Plaid powers the tools millions of people rely on to live a healthier financial life. We work with thousands of companies like Venmo, SoFi, several of the Fortune 500, and many of the largest banks to make it easy for people to connect their financial accounts to the apps and services they want to use. Plaid’s network covers 12,000 financial institutions across the US, Canada, UK and Europe. Founded in 2013, the company is headquartered in San Francisco with offices in New York, Washington D.C., London and Amsterdam. Responsibilities: Work directly with leaders across Plaid on the company's most important and least-defined problems, particularly those at the seams of multiple teams or functions Identify unowned, high-leverage opportunities across the business and driving them to clean outcomes Operate across a wide aperture (strategy, GTM, operations, product, etc.) without being boxed into a single lane Lead (directly or indirectly) high performing teams Use AI tools and agents as a default part of how you work — not as an experiment, but as a force multiplier Qualifications: 10+ years of total experience, with meaningful time in consulting as well as direct operating roles (BizOps, Strategy & Ops, Finance, Chief of Staff, etc. A track record of independently identifying problems and driving them to outcomes with limited top-down direction High agency, sense of ownership, and willingness to roll up your sleeves Ability to build relationships at all levels and drive cross-functional teams to action Strong analytical and structured-thinking skills; comfort translating ambiguity into frameworks, plans, and decisions Experience directly managing high-performing teams Familiarity with AI tools and agents to acce
About the Team The Corporate Development team sits at the intersection of OpenAI’s strategy and the global AI ecosystem. Partnering closely with engineering, product, and business leaders, we analyze markets, technologies, and companies to identify opportunities that accelerate OpenAI’s mission and long-term strategy. Bringing together expertise in strategy, M&A, and integration, the team leads the end-to-end process of sourcing, evaluating, negotiating, and integrating acquisitions and other strategic transactions. About the Role The Corporate Development Deal Lead will own high-priority M&A and strategic transaction work from early evaluation through diligence, structuring, negotiation, approval, and close. This person will translate strategic priorities and market insight into actionable deal opportunities, build the business case for transactions, and drive cross-functional alignment with senior stakeholders. This is a hands-on, high-ownership role for someone who can combine strategic judgment, financial rigor, founder relationship-building, and crisp execution. The ideal candidate can lead complex transactions, partner well with executive stakeholders, and help build the AI-native systems, tools, and operating practices that allow Corp Dev to scale. This role is based in our San Francisco HQ. 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 end-to-end execution of corporate development transactions (e.g., acquisitions and strategic investments), including sourcing, diligence, valuation, structuring, negotiation, and closing. Track and interpret key trends across AI, technology, and adjacent industries, translating the competitive and startup landscape into clear, high-impact insights for OpenAI’s leadership. Proactively source acquisition and other opportunities by building deep relationships across the venture, startup, and incubator ecosystem. Partner closely wi
About the Team The Product Marketing team shapes how OpenAI brings its research, models, and products to market. We work across Research, Product, Engineering, Sales, Communications, and Marketing to translate technical advances into clear customer value, compelling market narratives, and go-to-market strategies that drive meaningful adoption. About the Role We’re looking for a senior product marketing leader to shape how OpenAI’s models and research are understood and adopted around the world. You’ll work directly with frontier research teams to understand emerging capabilities and translate them into compelling product strategies, market narratives, and customer experiences. Your scope will span frontier models, specialized models for cybersecurity and life sciences, multimodal capabilities, and the API portfolio that makes these systems accessible to developers and businesses. You’ll build and lead the team responsible for helping customers understand what our models can do, how they’re evolving, and how to deploy them responsibly. In this role, you will: Define the product marketing strategy for OpenAI’s models, research advances, and API portfolio. Embed with Research, Product, and Engineering to understand model capabilities, evaluations, limitations, and technical tradeoffs. Shape how OpenAI explains advances in AI to developers, business leaders, and the broader market. Lead positioning, launches, demonstrations, and adoption strategies across frontier, specialized, and multimodal models. Help customers navigate model selection, API access, privacy, security, and responsible deployment. Bring customer and market insights into research and product decisions. Partner with Sales, Solutions, Partnerships, and regional teams to develop customer narratives, use cases, and enablement. Work with Communications, Safety, Policy, and Legal to ensure technical claims are accurate and grounded. Build and lead a high-performing product marketing team and define success ac
About the Team OpenAI’s User Operations team shepherds our customer’s adoption of AI and ensures that our customers' product experience is nothing short of exceptional. We are building the very first post-AGI support team. We resolve complex issues, provide technical guidance, and support customers in maximizing value and adoption from deploying our products. We work closely with Sales, Technical Success, Product, Engineering and others to deliver the best possible experience to our customers at scale. OpenAI's customers represent a range of diverse backgrounds and maturity, from early-stage startups to established global enterprises. About the Role We are looking for a leader to build and scale our Support Engineering team, which will collaborate directly with our strategic enterprise accounts, our product and engineering teams, as well as our field teams to solve some of the most difficult technical problems faced by our customers. You will lead one of the best technical troubleshooting teams at OpenAI, and our customers and Engineering teams will look to you for technical guidance in addressing the most technically difficult issues in our environment. You will play an integral role in building knowledge within the team and be part of strategic initiatives for organizational and process improvements. Working directly with our most strategic customers - You will be crucial to the success of the most innovative, disruptive, and high-scale AI solutions being built with the OpenAI platform. This team will handle high difficulty situations and issues. The team will be global, providing 24x7 technical coverage for our customers. This will be an opportunity to build this new team from first principles - your leadership will determine the future of this organization. The ideal candidate will have a combination of technical capabilities mixed with strong leadership and systems building strength. This role is based in San Francisco, CA. We use a hybrid work model of 3 days
About the team Special Situations at OpenAI is the company’s commercial engine for its most complex and consequential opportunities. The team operates where new verticals, partnership models, and customer motions must be invented, before a repeatable GTM or delivery playbook exists, by bringing together product, research, engineering, and GTM leaders around a single outcome. Many of these efforts begin as “new bets” (new verticals, new customer motions, new partnership models) and mature into repeatable ways of working that shape how OpenAI operates at scale. The team acts as a force-multiplier for the company by accelerating decision-making, aligning stakeholders, and converting complex opportunities into durable results. About the role We’re hiring a Deal Lead, Special Situations to help stand up new vertical bets, with a particular focus on partnership development in the semiconductor industry. You will identify where AI can create step-change value for semiconductor companies and ecosystem partners, originate and shape multi-project programs with FDEs and applied researchers, package them into compelling commercial proposals, and execute creative, complex partnerships while keeping executives and cross-functional teams tightly aligned. This role is especially focused on building strategic partnerships in semiconductors. You do not need to be a technical engineer, but you do need to be able to speak the language of the semiconductor industry, build credibility quickly with technical and business stakeholders, and come up the learning curve fast on industry dynamics, workflows, and constraints. A key part of the role is crafting deals with semiconductor companies that demonstrate our unique competitive advantages. To do this effectively, you will need to develop a strong point of view on the market, understand the competitive landscape, and clearly articulate OpenAI’s differentiated value and strategic advantage. Special Situations owns the overall success of each
About the Team OpenAI's Industrial Compute organization is building the world's most advanced AI infrastructure ecosystem. Working alongside leading cloud providers, engineering firms, construction partners, utilities, and equipment manufacturers, we are delivering hyperscale AI campuses that enable the next generation of frontier AI models. The Strategic Sourcing team develops and executes the commercial strategies that ensure our infrastructure programs have reliable access to the equipment, materials, and strategic partners needed to deliver at unprecedented scale. We partner closely with Infrastructure Delivery, Capacity Planning, Design Engineering, Hardware Operations, Finance, Legal, and our external suppliers to build a resilient global supply network capable of supporting Industrial Compute's long-term growth. As we continue expanding globally, strategic sourcing becomes a critical competitive advantage, ensuring our infrastructure programs remain cost-effective, resilient, and capable of executing against aggressive deployment timelines. About the Role We are seeking a Strategic Sourcing Manager, Data Center Infrastructure to lead sourcing strategy for the critical infrastructure systems that power Industrial Compute campuses. This role will develop commercial strategies, negotiate strategic supplier agreements, and manage relationships across engineering, construction, manufacturing, and infrastructure partners responsible for delivering mission-critical facilities. You will work closely with Infrastructure Delivery, Capacity Planning, Engineering, Finance, Construction, and external suppliers to ensure Industrial Compute has the capacity, supplier relationships, and commercial frameworks required to support rapid global expansion. The ideal candidate has experience sourcing major infrastructure systems for hyperscale data centers, mission-critical facilities, industrial construction, semiconductor manufacturing, energy infrastructure, or similarly comple
About the Team OpenAI's Industrial Compute organization is building the world's most advanced AI infrastructure ecosystem. Working alongside leading cloud providers, engineering firms, construction partners, utilities, and equipment manufacturers, we are delivering hyperscale AI campuses that enable the next generation of frontier AI models. The Strategic Sourcing team develops and executes the commercial strategies that ensure our infrastructure programs have reliable access to the equipment, materials, and strategic partners needed to deliver at unprecedented scale. We partner closely with Infrastructure Delivery, Capacity Planning, Design Engineering, Hardware Operations, Finance, Legal, and our external suppliers to build a resilient global supply network capable of supporting Industrial Compute's long-term growth. As we continue expanding globally, strategic sourcing becomes a critical competitive advantage, ensuring our infrastructure programs remain cost-effective, resilient, and capable of executing against aggressive deployment timelines. About the Role We are seeking a Strategic Sourcing Manager, Data Center Infrastructure to lead sourcing strategy for the critical infrastructure systems that power Industrial Compute campuses. This role will develop commercial strategies, negotiate strategic supplier agreements, and manage relationships across engineering, construction, manufacturing, and infrastructure partners responsible for delivering mission-critical facilities. You will work closely with Infrastructure Delivery, Capacity Planning, Engineering, Finance, Construction, and external suppliers to ensure Industrial Compute has the capacity, supplier relationships, and commercial frameworks required to support rapid global expansion. The ideal candidate has experience sourcing major infrastructure systems for hyperscale data centers, mission-critical facilities, industrial construction, semiconductor manufacturing, energy infrastructure, or similarly comple
About the Team The Demo Studio is responsible for translating OpenAI’s most advanced capabilities into tangible, high-impact experiences for customers. We design and deliver the demos, applications, and environments that define how executives understand what is possible with AI. Our work sits at the intersection of product, engineering, design, and go-to-market. We operate as a hybrid of product studio and live production team, building experiences that are both technically credible and narratively compelling. About the Role We’re looking for a Demo Studio Lead to own the end-to-end demo experience for OpenAI’s major events, webinars, and strategic programs. This is a highly cross-functional role focused on translating cutting-edge AI capabilities into clear, compelling, and production-ready experiences. You will own the full demo portfolio for an event or initiative, spanning mainstage moments, breakout experiences, booths, and supporting content. You’ll define the narrative, architect workflows, build high-fidelity demo environments, direct presenters, and ensure flawless execution in live environments. This is not a traditional sales engineering, presentation, or narrowly scoped design role — it requires a combination of product thinking, technical fluency, storytelling, systems design, and operational excellence. A key part of the role is presenting the work directly: delivering live demonstrations to executive, technical, and industry audiences across mainstage, breakout, customer, and recorded settings. This role is ideal for someone who thrives in ambiguity, operates with strong ownership, and is excited about shaping how the world experiences AI firsthand. This is a hybrid role that can be based in either San Francisco or New York. In this role, you will: Own the end-to-end demo experience across OpenAI-hosted summits, webinars, third-party industry events, and strategic executive demonstrations. Translate approved product positioning, real OpenAI capabiliti
🚀 About WRITER WRITER is where the world's leading enterprises orchestrate AI-powered work. Our vision is to expand human capacity through superintelligence. And we're proving it's possible – through powerful, trustworthy AI that unites IT and business teams together to unlock enterprise-wide transformation. With WRITER's end-to-end platform, hundreds of companies like Mars, Marriott, Uber, and Vanguard are building and deploying AI agents that are grounded in their company's data and fueled by WRITER's enterprise-grade LLMs. Valued at $1.9B and backed by industry-leading investors including Premji Invest, Radical Ventures, and ICONIQ Growth, WRITER is rapidly cementing its position as the leader in enterprise generative AI. Founded in 2020 with office hubs in San Francisco, New York City, Seattle, Austin, Chicago, and London, our team thinks big and moves fast, and we're looking for smart, hardworking builders and scalers to join us on our journey to create a better future of work with AI. 📐 About the role We are looking for a visionary and execution-oriented AI transformation lead to serve as a high-impact partner for our most strategic Fortune 100 accounts. In this role, you’ll be the architect of change, moving beyond simple software implementation to help the world's largest organizations fundamentally rethink how they work. You’ll sit at the intersection of business strategy and cutting-edge technology, translating the power of the WRITER platform into measurable P&L impact and helping executives navigate the shift to an AI-first operating model. This is a rare opportunity to build the playbook for enterprise AI transformation. You won’t just be managing accounts; you’ll be driving the next industrial revolution by helping C-suite leaders move from AI experimentation to full-scale value realization. Your work will directly influence WRITER's product roadmap and help define how the world’s biggest brands use superintelligence to expand human capacity. Thi
About the Team OpenAI’s mission is to ensure that artificial general intelligence benefits all of humanity. Our Communications team supports that mission by explaining our technology, our values, and how we safely build powerful AI. We help business leaders see what AI can make possible for their organizations, show how customers use OpenAI’s products, and explain how AI is changing the way people work. About the Role We are looking for a senior product communications leader to own OpenAI’s B2B product story across business, trade, and nontraditional media. You will lead B2B communications for major product and platform moments, translate technical capabilities into clear business value, and build a sustained editorial program grounded in customer proof. Your work will help business leaders understand the problems our products solve and the outcomes they can enable using frontier intelligence. This is an exceptionally fast-paced, hands-on role that spans every altitude of communications. You will move from setting strategic positioning and shaping executive narratives to writing launch materials, developing media pitches, and delivering the details that make a story land. Working closely with Product, Research, Marketing, Sales, and our central Product Communications team, you will identify buyer needs, substantiate our claims, and carry a clear, consistent B2B story into the market. This role reports to the Head of Business Communications. In this role, you will: Set the positioning for OpenAI’s business products, connecting new capabilities to customer needs, the work they enable, and the evidence behind our claims. Lead business storytelling for priority launches across Codex, ChatGPT Work, API and developer capabilities, agents, and other enterprise products, in partnership with central Product Communications and product owners. Build a sustained editorial program between launches, using customer stories, explainers, and executive perspectives to show how our pr
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Why join us Brex is the intelligent finance platform that enables companies to spend smarter and move faster in more than 200 markets. By combining global corporate cards and banking with intuitive spend management, bill pay, and travel software, Brex enables founders and finance teams to accelerate operations, gain real-time visibility, and control spend effortlessly. Brex’s AI-native automation and world-class service eliminate manual expense and accounting tasks for customers so they can focus on what matters most. Tens of thousands of the world's best companies run on Brex, including DoorDash, Coinbase, Robinhood, Zoom, Plaid, Reddit, and SeatGeek. Working at Brex allows you to push your limits, challenge the status quo, and collaborate with some of the brightest minds in the industry. We’re committed to building a diverse team and inclusive culture and believe your potential should only be limited by how big you can dream. We make this a reality by empowering you with the tools, resources, and support you need to grow your career. Marketing at Brex The Marketing team tells the Brex story, determines messaging and positioning, and translates our products and features into tangible customer benefits. Our marketers are responsible for acquiring and growing customers and have a deep understanding of both the business and our customers. We’re a highly cross-functional team and partner most closely with the Product, Sales, and Design teams to show our prospects and customers how we can help them reach their full potential.What you’ll do What You'll Do As a Product Marketing Lead at Brex, you'll drive end-to-end storytelling for Brex products and customers. You'll lead product launches and go-to-market strategies — defining narratives, shaping positioning, creating cross-channel campaigns, and aligning the customer journey to convert pipeline and grow adoption. You're a maker who shapes the strategy and builds the work: landing pages, creative campaigns, videos, pitch
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Why join us Brex is the intelligent finance platform that enables companies to spend smarter and move faster in more than 200 markets. By combining global corporate cards and banking with intuitive spend management, bill pay, and travel software, Brex enables founders and finance teams to accelerate operations, gain real-time visibility, and control spend effortlessly. Brex’s AI-native automation and world-class service eliminate manual expense and accounting tasks for customers so they can focus on what matters most. Tens of thousands of the world's best companies run on Brex, including DoorDash, Coinbase, Robinhood, Zoom, Plaid, Reddit, and SeatGeek. Working at Brex allows you to push your limits, challenge the status quo, and collaborate with some of the brightest minds in the industry. We’re committed to building a diverse team and inclusive culture and believe your potential should only be limited by how big you can dream. We make this a reality by empowering you with the tools, resources, and support you need to grow your career. Marketing at Brex The Marketing team tells the Brex story — turning product innovation into customer obsession. We develop messaging, shape the brand, and bring our platform to life through thoughtful, compelling content. Our team spans Revenue Marketing, Product Marketing, and Brand Marketing, and works cross-functionally with Product, Sales, Business Development, and Design to drive growth and build trust. What you’ll do Brex is seeking a strategic, data-driven Growth Marketing Lead, Programmatic & Video to shape how we invest across programmatic display, YouTube, CTV, online video, audio, and emerging channels. You’ll own a high-impact media portfolio spanning Brand and Growth, with the opportunity to define how these programs work together, prove their incremental impact, and identify where Brex should invest next. You’ll combine deep programmatic expertise with strong measurement, audience, and experimentation instincts to tu
Why join us Brex is the intelligent finance platform that enables companies to spend smarter and move faster in more than 200 markets. By combining global corporate cards and banking with intuitive spend management, bill pay, and travel software, Brex enables founders and finance teams to accelerate operations, gain real-time visibility, and control spend effortlessly. Brex’s AI-native automation and world-class service eliminate manual expense and accounting tasks for customers so they can focus on what matters most. Tens of thousands of the world's best companies run on Brex, including DoorDash, Coinbase, Robinhood, Zoom, Plaid, Reddit, and SeatGeek. Working at Brex allows you to push your limits, challenge the status quo, and collaborate with some of the brightest minds in the industry. We’re committed to building a diverse team and inclusive culture and believe your potential should only be limited by how big you can dream. We make this a reality by empowering you with the tools, resources, and support you need to grow your career. Compliance at Brex The Compliance team helps the company grow responsibly, advocating for Brex and for the tens of thousands of growing businesses we serve. We own the compliance policies for Brex, provide strategic advice and guidance to all Brex teams, protect Brex from financial crime and other compliance risks, and represent the company externally on key regulatory and policy issues. Reimagining the financial system in a highly regulated environment requires creativity and resourcefulness, and we welcome the challenge. What you’ll do As a Risk & Compliance Lead at Brex, you will play a critical role in ensuring compliance with regulatory requirements and internal policies regarding the regulatory compliance program. This role involves managing activities related to core compliance program processes and frameworks and ensuring that Brex adheres to its regulatory and partner obligations. The role will report directly to Brex’s D
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