Partner Director in San Francisco

About the Team The Solutions Engineering team is made up of trusted technical advisors who help organizations adopt OpenAI’s technology safely, effectively, and responsibly. We partner closely with customers, Sales, Product, Engineering, and Security to translate frontier AI capabilities into practical workflows that create real-world impact. Cybersecurity is one of the most urgent areas where AI can help. As frontier models become more capable at reasoning over code, logs, infrastructure, and security evidence, organizations need guidance on how to evaluate, validate, and deploy these systems safely. Our goal is to help customers move from identifying risks to implementing solutions. About the Role We are committed to bringing together people from diverse backgrounds and perspectives who are excited to help build and deploy safe, useful AI. We are seeking a solutions engineer to partner with our Enterprise customers and ensure they achieve tangible business value from our models through the OpenAI suite of products. You will partner with senior business stakeholders to understand their pre-sales needs, guide their AI strategy, and identify the highest value use cases and applications. You will work with business and technical teams to demonstrate the value of our solutions and recommend architectural patterns to kickstart their implementation and development. You will work closely with Enterprise Sales, Security, and Product teams. We are looking for a Field Security Specialist to help security leaders and hands-on practitioners understand how OpenAI models, APIs, Codex, and agentic workflows can be applied to real cybersecurity use cases. This is a customer-facing specialist role for someone who can move fluidly between CISO-level conversations, practitioner-level technical depth, and hands-on solution design. You’ll help customers evaluate OpenAI for workflows like secure code review, vulnerability triage, threat modeling, remediation, SOC workflows, detection en

About the Role OpenAI's ads business is scaling quickly. As the Data Scientist for Ads Demand, you will build the measurement and insight foundation for understanding demand health and advertiser value across the marketplace. You will partner closely with Ads Sales leadership and Ads Product leadership—along with Marketing Science and product and sales teams—to diagnose advertiser performance, define benchmarks, identify growth opportunities, and turn advertiser feedback into product priorities. Your work will shape demand strategy, improve advertiser outcomes, and help OpenAI build for its most valuable advertisers. What You'll Do Demand Health & Measurement Define the North Star metrics, diagnostic framework, and measurement strategy for demand health across the ads system. Build the operating view of demand across spend, active advertisers, retention, budget utilization, delivery, concentration, and mix; identify emerging risks and opportunities. Diagnose changes in demand through cohort analysis, decomposition, experimentation, and causal methods, translating findings into clear actions for Sales and Product leadership. Advertiser Performance & Benchmarks Own the end-to-end view of advertiser outcomes—including delivery, ROAS, conversion performance, retention, and budget efficiency—for individual advertisers and key cohorts. Establish actionable benchmarks by objective, vertical, advertiser size, geography, maturity, and product adoption, with statistically sound peer comparisons. Develop early-warning signals and opportunity scoring that help sales teams surface under-delivery, performance risk, and advertiser growth potential. Set standards for metric definitions, data quality, and interpretation so leaders can separate real marketplace changes from seasonality, selection effects, and measurement artifacts. Insights, Adoption & Advertiser Feedback Partner with Marketing Science, Sales, and Product to translate analysis into credible advertiser-fac

About the Team The Enablement Lead (EL) team enables organizations to turn OpenAI products into real, sustained impact through world-class enablement and training execution. Our mission is to help customers successfully adopt and operationalize AI across their organizations. We partner with enterprises to translate the potential of OpenAI’s technology into durable capability—through structured training, technical enablement, and scalable deployment programs. By helping customers move from experimentation to production, the EL team accelerates time-to-value, deepens product adoption, and helps make OpenAI indispensable to how organizations work. About the Role The Enablement Lead, Builder role is a specialist post-sales technical enablement role focused on delivering high-impact enablement and adoption services across OpenAI’s product suite. You will design and deliver technical learning experiences covering OpenAI APIs, Codex, agents, evaluations, and related platform capabilities. You will work with engineers, AI and platform teams, administrators, security stakeholders, product leaders, and executive sponsors. This role blends deep technical fluency, instructional design, and customer advisory. You will lead live trainings, workshops, and adoption interventions for audiences ranging from hands-on builders to executive leaders, helping customers understand not just what OpenAI’s products can do, but how to use them effectively in real-world contexts. Success in this role means accelerating customer confidence, increasing product adoption, helping customers progress toward production use, and turning lessons from individual engagements into resources and practices that benefit many customers. 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: Own the technical enablement of OpenAI products, including OpenAI APIs, Codex, Agents, Evaluations a

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 Privacy Engineering team builds secure, reliable systems that help OpenAI meet its legal obligations while protecting user data. We partner closely with Legal and Engineering teams across OpenAI to support lawful data access requests and other critical legal workflows. Our work turns complex, high-stakes processes into auditable and dependable technical systems with clear human oversight and strong privacy and security controls. About the Role We’re looking for a full-stack Software Engineer to build the internal tools and data pipelines that power lawful data access request workflows and Legal Operations. You will work across product and data systems to make authorized retrieval and case handling accurate, efficient, and auditable. This role is well suited to someone who enjoys translating ambiguous operational requirements into durable systems, cares deeply about sensitive-data handling, and wants to improve both technical reliability and the day-to-day experience of the people operating these workflows. This role is based in San Francisco, CA, with two additional locations under consideration: London, UK, and Dublin, Ireland. 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: Design, build, and operate backend systems and workflow tooling for the full lifecycle of lawful data access requests, from intake and scoping through authorized retrieval, review, preparation, and audit. Build reliable data pipelines and interfaces across products and data stores so authorized teams can locate and handle the right records accurately and reproducibly. Implement least-privilege access, approval gates, provenance, audit trails, data minimization, and safe failure modes for sensitive workflows. Partner with Legal and Legal Operations to translate legal and operational requirements into clear technical designs and intuitive operator experiences. Identify responsible automation o

About the Team The Pricing & Monetization team is responsible for how our products create and capture value. We partner closely with Product, Engineering, Data Science, GTM, and Finance to design pricing models, packaging, and commercial strategies that support adoption, growth, and long-term scaling of the business. To thrive in this team, you need to be a proactive problem-solver who excels at bringing structure to ambiguous challenges. Our work demands strategic thinking, cross-functional collaboration, and precision in execution. Team members succeed when they are analytical, detail-oriented, skilled at balancing multiple priorities, and passionate about driving high-stakes projects forward to deliver meaningful results. About the Role We are looking for a Pricing Strategist to shape how we price and monetize OpenAI’s API platform. You’ll own the end-to-end pricing strategy across model launches, price architecture, packaging, commitments and discounts, and monetization guardrails. You’ll work closely with senior leaders across Product, Engineering, Data Science, GTM, and Finance to define pricing approaches, improve commercial decision-making, and bring more rigor to how we monetize our API offerings. You should be comfortable building monetization frameworks and commercial policies, analyzing tradeoffs, supporting high-impact decisions and driving decision making. You should also care deeply about the customer perspective and believe that strong pricing reflects a real understanding of customer value, needs, and friction points in order to build pricing that is clear, fair, and aligned with how customers experience our products. This role will report to the Head of Product Pricing for API & Platform. What you’ll do Develop the end-to-end pricing strategy for our API platform, including model launch pricing, price architecture, packaging, discount logic, and monetization guardrails. Recommend pricing for new models, capabilities, and platform offerings,

About the team The Technical Success team is responsible for ensuring the safe and effective deployment of ChatGPT and OpenAI API applications for developers and enterprises. We act as a trusted advisor and thought partner for our customers, ensuring developers and enterprises maximize value from our models and products. The Ecosystem team builds and scales third-party integrations around ChatGPT and Codex. We work across product, engineering, partnerships, safety, legal, policy, and go-to-market to create integrations that are useful, trustworthy, and technically sound. About the role We’re looking for an Applied Deployment Engineer to help build and deepen ChatGPT integrations with third-party messaging platforms. The initial focus will be on partner work as well as future opportunities with other messaging apps around the world. This is a hands-on, partner-facing engineering role. You’ll work closely with external product and engineering teams to improve existing integrations, expand capabilities such as image generation, increase retention, and translate partner needs back into OpenAI’s product and engineering roadmap. You should be comfortable writing code daily, making changes across platform or monorepo surfaces when needed, and moving fluidly between technical discovery, product tradeoffs, prototyping, debugging, and executive-level communication. This role is best suited for a strong product-minded engineer with excellent communication skills, sound technical judgment, and the ability to work across cultures, time zones, and organizations. This role is based in our San Francisco office. 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: Partner with messenger app product and engineering teams to design ChatGPT-powered experiences that fit naturally into chat, group, contact, and app-tab surfaces. Deepen existing partner integrations, with an initial focus on improving user ex

About the Team OpenAI’s Strategic Finance organization provides financial insights and guidance to support the company’s long-term strategy and ambitious growth. We partner across Product, Partnerships, Engineering, and GTM to allocate resources to the highest-impact opportunities while protecting sustainable unit economics. The Applications Technology Strategic Finance team partners closely with Product to scale core offerings and bring new products to market. We lead revenue forecasting and performance management across the product portfolio, including economic margins, pricing, and partnership deal pricing and structuring. About the Role We are hiring on our Strategic Finance Partnerships team to drive strategic decision-making across OpenAI’s growth and media partnership portfolio, focused on our consumer business. This role will be a critical finance partner to Partnerships deal leads and Product owners, responsible for evaluating, pricing, and structuring partnerships, and translating partner opportunity into decision-ready economics and performance management. The role will be hands-on in deal evaluation, negotiation support, and portfolio oversight. You will shape how OpenAI approaches partnership unit economics, measurement and incrementality, and how partnership performance is incorporated into forecasts and planning. This role is based in San Francisco, CA, with a hybrid work model (3 days/week in-office). Relocation assistance is available. In this role, you will: Own financial evaluation for growth and media partnerships, including modeling revenue, margin, compute, and payback to support decision-making and negotiations. Develop clear economic frameworks and deal guardrails (pricing floors, rev-share structures, caps, minimum guarantees, performance-based terms) to protect long-term unit economics. Partner closely with Product and Partnerships to define and measure incrementality and ensure contract terms align with measurable outcomes. Lead partnershi

About the Team The Privacy Engineering team builds the systems and technical foundations that govern how user data is understood, retained, accessed, and used across OpenAI. We partner with Product, Data, Infrastructure, Security, and Legal to translate policy and trust commitments into durable architecture and enforceable controls. Our work spans data inventory and mapping, classification and lineage, retention and deletion, access governance, purpose and usage controls, auditability, and lifecycle automation. We aim to make policy-aligned data handling the default while giving teams clear, reliable primitives for building and operating products at scale. About the Role We are looking for an experienced Software Engineer to drive the architecture and execution of user data governance across OpenAI. You will define technical direction, build shared platforms and controls, and lead cross-functional programs that make data flows discoverable, policies enforceable, and ownership explicit. This role is well suited to a senior engineer who can move between deep systems design and organization-wide influence, turn ambiguous requirements into pragmatic roadmaps, and operate high-trust systems end to end. This position is based in San Francisco. Relocation assistance is available. In this role, you will: Set the technical strategy and architecture for user data governance across data mapping, classification, lineage, retention, deletion, access, and permitted usage. Design and build shared services, APIs, metadata systems, and policy-enforcement mechanisms that make governance controls consistent, scalable, and auditable. Establish reliable inventories of user data, system ownership, data flows, and policy applicability across products, infrastructure, analytics, and research systems. Partner with Product, Data, Infrastructure, Security, and Legal leaders to define decision rights, translate requirements into controls, and drive adoption across teams. Own governance systems

About the team The Applied AI Engineering team is responsible for ensuring the safe and effective deployment of Generative AI applications for developers and startups. We act as a trusted advisor and thought partner for our customers, working to build an effective backlog of GenAI use cases for their industry and drive them to production through strong technical guidance. OpenAI's customers represent a range of diverse backgrounds and maturity, from early-stage startups to late-stage startups. About the Role We are seeking a technically proficient, business-minded Applied AI Engineer to help push the frontier of advanced AI with our strategic startup customers. You'll work with some of the most exciting AI startups in the world, guiding them through ideation, development, delivery, and scaling to accelerate and maximize the value of what they build on our platform. You will have the opportunity to work on the most novel and creative use cases being built on our API, serving as a critical partner in collecting and delivering high-fidelity product and model feedback internally. You will collaborate closely with Sales, Solutions Engineering, Applied Research, and Product teams, and you will report to the Startups Applied AI Lead. This role is based in our San Francisco or New York offices. 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: Partner closely with strategic startup customers as their technical thought partner to build novel applications on our API, helping them rapidly move from ideation to scale. Provide proactive guidance to maximize business impact and accelerate application development. Experiment and prototype alongside customers, demonstrating practical use cases. Contribute to open-source resources and scale the function by sharing knowledge, codifying best practices, and publishing useful resources. Synthesize and deliver valuable feedback to the Product and Research

About the Team The Strategic Finance team at OpenAI plays a critical role in shaping the company’s long-term trajectory. We partner closely with Product, Engineering, and Go-To-Market teams to inform high-stakes decisions through rigorous data science and economic modeling. As part of our expanding Data Science function, we’re building a best-in-class Forecasting capability to drive real-time, data-driven decision-making across user growth, revenue, compute infrastructure, and more. We are developing scalable forecasting infrastructure to help us understand and anticipate business dynamics in an increasingly complex, usage-based world. Our models are foundational to planning, pricing, operational efficiency, and growth strategy - supporting key investment decisions and unlocking OpenAI’s full potential. About the Role We’re looking for a senior Machine Learning Data Scientist to lead our forecasting initiatives. You’ll be one of the founding members of the Forecasting pillar within Strategic Finance Data Science, responsible for building and scaling robust, interpretable, and production-ready forecasting systems. Your models will power critical business decisions by predicting core metrics such as DAU/WAU, revenue, LTV, compute consumption, and profitability. This is a highly cross-functional role, requiring technical excellence, strong product intuition, and business acumen. You’ll collaborate with product managers, researchers, engineers, and finance leaders to operationalize forecasting insights, influence company-wide strategy, and build foundational forecasting capabilities at OpenAI. 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: Build statistical and machine learning models to solve forecasting needs across product, finance, infrastructure, and GTM domains. Own the end-to-end modeling lifecycle , including scoping, feature engineerin

About the Team The Launch Programs team is responsible for driving cross-functional planning, readiness, and execution for OpenAI’s most visible and strategic product moments. We partner closely with product teams to understand their goals, requirements, and timelines—then help translate those into clear, actionable plans across marketing, comms, events, and other functions. Our team acts as the connective tissue between builders and storytellers, ensuring that launches are predictable, aligned, and impactful. About the Role As a Launch Program Manager, you’ll play a central role in turning product ambitions into coordinated company-wide launch moments. You’ll work hand in hand with product teams to deeply understand their roadmaps and readiness needs, then drive alignment across marketing, comms, events, and other partners to ensure smooth, high-quality execution. We’re looking for people who: Are exceptional at building alignment across diverse functions and stakeholders Can translate product requirements and timelines into structured, coordinated launch plans Are clear communicators who can operate effectively at both tactical and strategic levels Thrive in fast-paced, ambiguous environments and enjoy building structure where it doesn’t yet exist Are skilled at navigating complex product organizations and creating clarity across multiple teams 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: Partner with product teams to understand requirements, roadmaps, and readiness, then translate those into clear launch plans and timelines Drive cross-functional planning and execution across marketing, comms, events, and operations to ensure cohesive, high-quality launches Serve as the central communications hub, driving alignment through clear updates, status reviews, and structured working rhythms Anticipate and proactively address launch risks, sur

About the team OpenAI’s Enterprise Go-To-Market organization helps the world’s largest companies adopt and scale our AI platform across their business—from ChatGPT Enterprise to our developer platform and APIs. We partner with organizations across Financial Services, Life Sciences, and Retail to build new AI-powered customer experiences, transform operations, and reimagine how work gets done in highly regulated and technically complex environments. As adoption accelerates through pilots, experimentation, and developer-led use cases, the GTM team turns that momentum into durable, enterprise-wide deployments. Sales Development sits at the front of this motion—where technical curiosity becomes executive engagement and OpenAI’s enterprise relationships begin. About the role We are hiring a Sales Development Manager, AMER to lead a team of SDRs supporting our Large Enterprise business across North America. Reporting into Sales Development leadership, this role will be responsible for coaching and developing a high-performing team focused on generating qualified pipeline and creating strategic enterprise opportunities. This is a foundational front-line leadership role within OpenAI’s enterprise GTM organization. You will help define how we engage prospective customers, convert product and developer interest into enterprise conversations, and scale repeatable outbound and inbound motions across some of the world’s largest organizations. You will partner closely with Sales, Marketing, Solutions Engineering, Partnerships, and Strategy & Operations to drive pipeline generation and help shape the future of OpenAI’s enterprise growth engine. In this role, you will: Lead, coach, and develop a team of SDRs supporting Large Enterprise, Verticals, and Strategic Accounts across AMER Drive high-quality pipeline generation through outbound prospecting, inbound qualification, account-based motions, and product-led signals Establish strong operational rigor around activity metrics,

About the team The Pricing & Monetization team is responsible for how OpenAI products create and capture value. We partner closely with GTM, Finance, and Product to design pricing models, packaging, and commercial strategies that support adoption, growth, and long-term scaling of the business. To thrive in this team, you need to be a proactive problem-solver who excels at bringing structure to ambiguous challenges. Our work demands strategic thinking, cross-functional collaboration, and precision in execution. Team members succeed when they are analytical, detail-oriented, skilled at balancing multiple priorities, and passionate about driving high-stakes projects forward to deliver meaningful results. About the role We are looking for a Pricing Strategist to shape the pricing frameworks, commercial policies, and decision principles that govern our most consequential commercial decisions. This role works closely with senior leaders across GTM and Finance to define our overall pricing strategy for our sales managed segment as well as the key pricing guardrails and commercial pricing framework we enable to help our sellers and customers move fast and land mutually beneficial commercial agreements at scale. The ideal candidate is comfortable developing durable monetization frameworks and commercial policies, analyzing tradeoffs, and supporting high-impact decisions. They bring structure to ambiguity, communicate tradeoffs crisply, and know when an exception reveals a one-off need versus a broader opportunity to improve our commercial model. This role will report to the Head of Go-to-Market Pricing. In this role, you will Develop frameworks and strategies that guide commercial pricing decisions. Design commercial constructs—including commitments, incentives, and risk-sharing approaches—that address customer needs while supporting healthy unit economics and long-term growth. Build and evolve discounting frameworks, guardrails, and approval principles that improve pric

About the Team OpenAI's Strategic Sourcing team helps the company scale responsibly, efficiently, and at speed. We partner with leaders across Engineering, Research, IT, Systems, Finance, Legal, and other teams to shape commercial strategies, negotiate critical agreements, and build resilient supplier ecosystems. Our work connects technical strategy, commercial judgment, financial discipline, and execution in support of OpenAI's mission. About the Role OpenAI is seeking a Strategic Technology Negotiations Lead to personally lead some of the company's most complex and consequential technology negotiations. This is not a people manager role. It is a senior strategic IC operator role for an expert negotiator who wants to remain close to the work and personally drive high-impact outcomes. We are especially interested in leaders who have managed teams and are intentionally seeking an individual contributor role where their impact comes through judgment, influence, and direct ownership. Rather than owning a fixed category, you will be deployed against high-priority opportunities where deal complexity, commercial stakes, executive visibility, or time pressure require exceptional negotiation leadership. Your initial focus will include data platforms and infrastructure, including data lake and lakehouse technologies, observability, and enterprise SaaS, with flexibility to work across other strategic technology areas. You will lead negotiations from strategy through execution, aligning decision-makers and driving agreements to closure. Many of these negotiations exist within broader supplier and partner ecosystems. You will look beyond the immediate transaction to account for interconnected cost, equity, revenue, partnership, risk, and long-term strategic implications. Success requires strong economics, sound judgment under pressure, executive credibility, and the ability to bring stakeholders with you through difficult decisions. This role is based in San Francisco, CA. We u