Partnerships Manager in San Francisco

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’s mission is to ensure that artificial general intelligence benefits all of humanity. The Creator Partnerships team supports that mission by building trusted relationships with creators, talent, experts, and organizations that help people understand and use AI in meaningful ways. We work closely with teams across OpenAI to develop thoughtful partnerships and programs grounded in trust, usefulness, cultural relevance, and measurable impact. Our focus extends beyond promoting individual product features. We aim to help partners discover valuable applications of AI, share credible insights with their communities, and create lasting value for both OpenAI and the people we work with. About the Role We are seeking a Scaled Partnerships Manager to own the agency relationships and operating systems that enable OpenAI to work with influencers and creators at scale. This person will manage key creator marketing agencies and platforms, establish clear standards for selection, pricing, deliverables, brand safety, execution, and measurement, and ensure our programs are both culturally credible and operationally rigorous. You will translate go-to-market priorities into repeatable creator programs across a mix of micro, mid-tier, and larger creators. You will be accountable for the full agency and campaign lifecycle, from annual planning and briefing through execution, paid amplification, reporting, optimization, and post-program learning. This role is based in San Francisco, CA. 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 Lead scaled creator marketing programs aligned to business priorities. Own the creator agency portfolio, including partner selection, scopes, budgets, staffing, performance expectations, operating cadence, and business reviews. Build a clear agency model that defines each partner’s role, internal and external ownership, and how work moves from brief

About the Team OpenAI’s mission is to build safe artificial general intelligence (AGI) which benefits all of humanity. This long-term undertaking brings the world’s best scientists, engineers, and business professionals into one lab together to accomplish this. In pursuit of this mission, our Go To Market (GTM) team is responsible for helping customers learn how to leverage and deploy our highly capable AI products across their business. The team is made of Sales, Solutions, Support, Marketing, and Partnership professionals that work together to create valuable solutions that will help bring AI to as many users as possible. About the Role OpenAI is seeking a highly motivated and experienced VC Partnerships Manager to join our Startups Go To Market team. You will play a critical role in managing relationships with top venture capital funds and startup accelerators, with the goal of providing exceptional support to the portfolio companies of these funds. We believe that many of the most disruptive and category-defining AI applications will be created by startups. The Startup Go To Market team’s mission is to help startups harness the power of AI models to drive these advances. You will support startups across stages with resources that help them get started with OpenAI APIs and build quickly, and provide access to OpenAI teams, community, and expertise to support their growth. This role is a mixture of technical understanding, vision, partnership, and strategy. You’ll be responsible for forming and managing partnerships with top venture investors, accelerators, and other partners in the startup ecosystem, as well as working across the OpenAI organization to help startups accelerate their progress and be successful using our models. You’ll work cross-functionality with product, research, engineering, marketing, support, and solutions architecture to help customers get the most out of our models. This role is based in our San Francisco office. We use a hybrid work model

ABOUT BASETEN Baseten powers mission-critical inference for the world's most dynamic AI companies, like Cursor, Notion, OpenEvidence, Abridge, Clay, Gamma and Writer. By uniting applied AI research, flexible infrastructure, and seamless developer tooling, we enable companies operating at the frontier of AI to bring cutting-edge models into production. We're growing quickly and recently raised our $1.5B Series F , led by Altimeter Capital, Conviction Partners, and Spark Capital. Join us and help build the platform engineers turn to to ship AI products. ABOUT THE ROLE We are seeking a strategic and creative Partnerships Product Marketing Manager to drive the success of our partner ecosystem. In this role, you will work closely with our partnerships team and with leading technology companies including NVIDIA, Cloud Hyperscalers, Neocloud providers, and emerging ecosystem players, to bring differentiated joint solutions to market. You will be responsible for shaping partner narratives, creating impactful content, and enabling joint go-to-market programs that amplify our reach. The ideal candidate combines storytelling skills, technical acumen, and the ability to collaborate across partner and internal teams. RESPONSIBILITIES Partner Storytelling & Content Develop compelling blog posts, white papers, solution briefs, and customer success stories highlighting the value of joint solutions. Translate technical integrations into clear, differentiated messaging for both technical and business audiences. Enablement & Training Build and deliver enablement programs to arm partner sales teams with the tools, messaging, and collateral they need to position and sell our solutions. Create sales playbooks and battlecards tailored to each partner’s ecosystem. Joint Go-to-Market Campaigns Plan and execute co-marketing campaigns with partners, including webinars, events, solution launches, and demand-generation activities. Manage partner marketing calendars and ensure alignment

ABOUT BASETEN Baseten powers mission-critical inference for the world's most dynamic AI companies, like Cursor, Notion, OpenEvidence, Abridge, Clay, Gamma and Writer. By uniting applied AI research, flexible infrastructure, and seamless developer tooling, we enable companies operating at the frontier of AI to bring cutting-edge models into production. We're growing quickly and recently raised our $1.5B Series F , led by Altimeter Capital, Conviction Partners, and Spark Capital. Join us and help build the platform engineers turn to to ship AI products. About the Role We are seeking a technical, strategic and creative Partnerships Product Marketing Manager to drive the success of our ecosystem partners. In this role, you will work closely with our partnerships, product and engineering teams and with emerging technology companies to bring differentiated joint solutions to market. You will be responsible for shaping partner narratives, creating impactful content, and enabling joint go-to-market programs that amplify our reach. The ideal candidate combines storytelling skills, technical acumen, and the ability to collaborate across partner and internal teams. Key Responsibilities Partner Storytelling & Content Develop compelling technical blog posts, white papers, solution briefs, and customer success stories highlighting the value of joint solutions. Translate technical integrations into clear, differentiated messaging for both technical and business audiences. Enablement & Training Build and deliver enablement programs to arm partner sales teams with the tools, messaging, and collateral they need to position and sell our solutions. Create sales playbooks and battlecards tailored to each partner’s ecosystem. Joint Go-to-Market Campaigns Plan and execute co-marketing campaigns with partners, including webinars, events, solution launches, and demand-generation activities. Manage partner marketing calendars and ensure alignment with key product milestones. Cross-Fu

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. This role is at the center of some of Plaid’s most strategic and complex partnership opportunities. You’ll lead sophisticated, enterprise-scale deals from initial sourcing through execution, navigating long sales cycles, multiple stakeholders, and competitive dynamics along the way. Working closely with cross-functional teams and segment leaders, you’ll turn partner and customer needs into new opportunities—including entirely new motions—and help bring Plaid’s value to life across Payments, Credit, and Identity/Fraud. Responsibilities Lead complex enterprise partnership deals from sourcing through close, managing multi-stakeholder negotiations and driving successful partner adoption. Develop and refine partnership strategies across priority enterprise segments, including new and emerging areas of opportunity. Build and manage a pipeline of strategic partners that ex

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 Technical Account Management function at Plaid is a team of individuals passionate about helping customers connect their technical goals and challenges with Plaid solutions. We play a crucial role in a customer's success by providing technical guidance to enable growth, expansion, and deeper customer relationships. Our goal is to ensure every customer becomes a lifelong Plaid champion and advocate. As a Territory TAM you will collaborate with Partner Account Managers who will surface partner requests based on technical needs. From there you will drive the technical engagement, acting as an expert resource to assist customers with integration reviews, troubleshooting, and technical best practices to help them maximize their use of Plaid products. You will play a crucial role in enabling customer success at scale. Responsibilities: Work with Partners across segments to provide technical guidance and support through a variety of channels including email and phone, ensuring they’re getting the most out of their integration with Plaid Manage inbound requests to assist customers with a variety of technical needs including integration reviews, solutions consulting/best practices, and troubleshooting to

About the team Platform Partnerships builds and grows the relationships that extend OpenAI products through the world’s most important technology platforms. The team works across Product, Engineering, Research, Go-to-Market, Legal, Finance, Marketing, Policy, and Operations to turn partner opportunities into durable product experiences and business outcomes. We are a small team working on opportunities that rarely arrive with a playbook. We set the strategy, make the tradeoffs, and stay close to execution through launch and scale. About the role We’re hiring a Strategic Partner Manager to own and drive the expansion of a portfolio of OpenAI’s most strategic platform partnerships. You will treat each partnership as a business: set the expansion thesis, align joint product roadmaps, structure commercial opportunities, and translate shared ambition into measurable adoption, usage, revenue, distribution, and product impact. This is a senior individual-contributor role with full-lifecycle ownership—from strategy and negotiation through integration, launch, performance, expansion, and renewal. It is a 0-to-1 builder role, not a coordination role. You will create clarity where the operating model is still emerging, make sound decisions with incomplete information, and step into the details required to move the work forward. The right person can move fluidly between a multi-year partnership strategy and the immediate product, commercial, or operating blocker in front of the team. You will build trusted relationships at the executive and working levels while representing OpenAI’s priorities with clarity and thoughtful pushback. What success looks like Each priority partner has a clear expansion thesis, joint roadmap, governance model, and measurable outcomes. High-priority product integrations and go-to-market initiatives launch with clear ownership, strong readiness, and fewer unresolved dependencies. Partnerships show measurable growth across the outcomes that matter for t

About the Team OpenAI's Research Team is at the forefront of AI research, pushing the limits of what AI can achieve. Our team is dedicated to developing advanced AI systems that are powerful, safe, and beneficial for everyone. About the Role The Research IP Partnerships team is in need of Technical Program Managers (TPMs) to streamline the integration of our applied research with external strategic partners. This role is critical for synthesizing research from cross functional teams, enabling model deployment, and ensuring new technologies are effectively adopted. You will act as the connection that enables our partners to deploy the most advanced AI models. Your primary focus will be to increase our research velocity and ensure that our deployments are successful and collaborative with our partners. 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 and share a deep understanding of frontier AI model development Partner with internal and external teams to drive deployment of the latest OpenAI technologies Manage critical inquiries from both technical and non-technical partners Design and implement simple, scalable processes that solve complex problems Deliver high-profile pipeline and tooling projects on tight deadlines Work across research and engineering to align goals, streamline communication, and support business priorities You might thrive in this role if you: Have experience in a strategic partnerships and technical program management role Can right-size process to align stakeholders while ensuring speed of delivery (action-oriented) Are fantastic at building cross-functional relationships and having empathy for the many roles involved in deploying research Can design and build tools (via code / no-code / AI) to facilitate internal processes Are a great communicator across written, presentation, and visual forms. Are engaged and c

About the Team The User Operations team (Support) is central to ensuring that our customers' experience with our products is nothing short of exceptional. 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’re seeking a Program Manager to lead support readiness and operational programs for OpenAI’s cloud and strategic partnerships. You’ll work closely with Engineering, Product, Support Delivery, and external partners to translate complex technical and business requirements into scalable customer support experiences. This role will help define how we support customers across partner ecosystems, from launch planning and issue-routing workflows to escalation management and ongoing operational improvements. In this role, you will: Lead support readiness for new and existing cloud and strategic partnerships, including launch planning, operational design, and ongoing program execution. Partner closely with Engineering, Product, go-to-market teams, and external partners to develop support models for technically complex products and integrations. Define partner-specific customer journeys, support workflows, escalation paths, ownership models, and cross-company handoffs. Identify operational and technical risks, align stakeholders on solutions, and drive improvements that strengthen the customer experience. Establish clear success metrics and operating rhythms to monitor partnership health, launch readiness, and support performance. Use AI and automation to improve partner-related support workflows and scale operations effectively. You might thrive in this role if you: Have 8+ years of experience

About the Team OpenAI Finance ensures the organization is positioned for long-term success as we pursue our mission. The Order to Cash (OTC) team oversees the complete flow of commercial transactions from order intake and provisioning through billing, collections, and cash application — ensuring accuracy, compliance, and operational excellence in support of OpenAI’s mission to ensure artificial general intelligence benefits all of humanity. About the Role We are seeking a Senior Manager to build and scale Order to Cash across OpenAI’s API and ChatGPT businesses, cloud marketplaces, and strategic partnership channels. This role will own end-to-end Order Management and Billing operations across API and ChatGPT while leading OTC readiness and execution for AWS Marketplace, Google Cloud Marketplace, Oracle Cloud Marketplace, GovCloud, and future partner channels. The role will also own the end-to-end Order Management and Billing close, setting the close calendar, readiness standards, review and sign-off expectations, while leading the team responsible for execution. You will oversee the Order Management and Billing lifecycle across API, ChatGPT, marketplace, and partner transactions, spanning commercial readiness, order intake, provisioning, usage and transaction data, pricing validation, invoicing, credits, settlements, and product and partner reporting. Your work will ensure transactions are accurate, timely, complete, and supported by audit-ready controls. This is a leadership role that combines strategic ownership, cross-functional leadership, and hands-on operational execution. You will define the target operating model, lead first-of-kind launches, shape product and systems roadmaps, and oversee the resolution of complex contract modifications, non-standard pricing, usage disputes, reconciliation breaks, settlement variances, and customer- or partner-impacting escalations. You will collaborate with teams across Finance, GTM, Product, Engineering, Legal, Tax, Reven

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

About the Team The Product & Platform teams at OpenAI are responsible for delivering the company’s most impactful offerings—such as ChatGPT, our API platform, and new enterprise capabilities—to a global and diverse customer base. These systems must perform at scale and deliver exceptional experiences to developers, consumers, and businesses alike. Technical Program Managers at OpenAI play a key leadership role in scaling these efforts, partnering deeply with product, engineering, design, and go-to-market teams to bring ambitious ideas to life and ensure clarity and discipline in execution. About the Role We are hiring a Technical Program Manager to support OpenAI's critical AI deployments across strategic cloud partners. This role is designed for a candidate who can operate as an end-to-end owner across internal engineering teams and external partner organizations. This role will drive the technical strategy and execution required to bring OpenAI models and platform capabilities into partner environments responsibly and at scale. The work spans engineering deliverables, shared roadmaps, model launch pipelines, technical integration, launch readiness, and post-launch follow-through. You will work closely with senior leaders across OpenAI engineering, infrastructure, product, safety, security, legal, finance, and go-to-market, as well as technical counterparts at our partners. The job is to turn broad partnership commitments into concrete execution plans, align both sides on what must land, and build repeatable mechanisms for launching OpenAI capabilities on third-party platforms. 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 end-to-end execution for major cloud partner programs spanning model deployment, product integration, operational readiness, launch follow-through, and partner-platform adoption. Own integrated technical roadma

About Supabase Supabase is the open-source backend platform trusted by millions of developers to build web apps, SaaS products, and AI-native applications. Our Partnerships team works across the ecosystem - technology partners, cloud platforms, VCs, accelerators, and startup programs - to make Supabase the default backend for the next generation of companies. About the Role We're looking for a Startup Partner Enablement & Programs Manager to bring our partner ecosystem to life through enablement, events, and programs to raise awareness of Supabase's value proposition to early stage startups. You'll own the materials, playbooks, and activations that help our partners - VCs, accelerators, incubators and entrepreneurship programs - successfully promote and build with Supabase. That includes organizing Supabase's presence at partner and VC-related events, running office hours, hackathons and VIP dinners, and turning relationships into repeatable, high-impact programs. This role sits on the Partnerships team and reports to the Head of Startups, working closely with teammates across the startup program, GTM, developer relations, and marketing. Because the bulk of our events and partner activity is concentrated in San Francisco and the Bay Area, we strongly prefer candidates based there who can regularly attend and host events in person. It's a great fit for someone who loves the operational craft of enablement and programs and wants to work at the intersection of startups, venture, and developer tools. What You'll Do Build and maintain partner enablement materials - decks, one-pagers, playbooks, and activation guides - that help partners across the ecosystem promote and build with Supabase Manage the operational cadence of partner programs: collaborating on strategy, tracking activations, and keeping program logistics running smoothly across partner types Organize Supabase's presence at partner and VC-related events — demo days, founder summits, portfolio workshops, p

About the Team OpenAI Finance helps ensure the organization is set up for success in pursuit of its mission of ensuring that artificial general intelligence benefits all of humanity. Within Finance, the Technical Revenue team partners with Product, Strategic Partnerships, Business Development, Growth, Legal, Deal Desk, GTM, Strategic Finance, Revenue Accounting, and Finance Systems to enable scalable, audit-ready monetization. We advise on commercial and contract design, establish defensible accounting positions under ASC 606, and translate those conclusions into repeatable processes, systems, controls, and reporting. About the Role We’re looking for a Senior Manager of Revenue Accounting to lead revenue strategy and technical accounting for OpenAI’s strategic commercial deals. Reporting to the Head of Technical Revenue, you will serve as the primary revenue advisor for large, bespoke, and non-standard deals outside OpenAI’s standard product and service offerings. Your portfolio may include strategic collaborations, cloud marketplaces, platform and distribution deals, licensing and revenue-share models, joint go-to-market initiatives, research collaborations, and other emerging commercial structures. You will engage early in the deal lifecycle to help shape commercially viable, accounting-compliant, and operationally scalable outcomes. You will establish the accounting posture, identify required contract and product terms, define reporting and control requirements, and ensure that deal economics, billing flows, and revenue recognition remain aligned as the business evolves. This role requires strong technical accounting judgment, commercial fluency, executive communication, and the ability to create clarity and ownership in areas where precedent may not yet exist. 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: Own technical revenue accounti