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About the Team OpenAI’s GTM Partnerships team builds a strategic, global partner ecosystem that accelerates customer success, enables enterprise AI adoption, and drives durable growth in support of OpenAI’s mission. Cloud partners are central to how customers discover, purchase, deploy, and scale OpenAI solutions. We work across cloud providers and their field, product, marketplace, technical, and partner organizations to reduce friction for customers and create repeatable paths from initial interest to production impact. The team collaborates closely with Sales, Technical Success, Product, Engineering, Finance, Legal, Security, Marketing, Operations, and Customer Success to turn strategic cloud relationships into measurable customer and commercial outcomes. About the Role We are hiring a Partner Director, GTM Cloud Partnerships to shape and execute OpenAI’s go-to-market strategy with strategic cloud partners. You will own senior relationships across a portfolio of cloud providers and develop joint business plans that expand customer access to OpenAI’s products, generate partner-sourced opportunities, and accelerate enterprise adoption. You will translate company-level partnerships into practical field motions spanning account planning, co-selling, cloud marketplaces, customer procurement, technical enablement, solution development, and executive engagement. This is a highly strategic and hands-on role. Success requires executive presence, strong commercial judgment, cloud ecosystem expertise, and the operating discipline to coordinate complex initiatives across multiple partners, regions, and internal teams. The ideal candidate can move fluidly between long-term strategy and the detailed execution required to deliver measurable results. This role is based in San Francisco. We use a hybrid work model of three days in the office per week. In this role, you will: Own the strategic and commercial relationships with a top global cloud partner, establishing strong alignm

About the Team Security is at the foundation of OpenAI’s mission to ensure that artificial general intelligence benefits all of humanity. The Security team protects OpenAI’s technology, people, and products. We are technical in what we build but are operational in how we do our work, and are committed to supporting all products and research at OpenAI. Our Security team tenets include: prioritizing for impact, enabling researchers, preparing for future transformative technologies, and engaging a robust security culture. About the Role OpenAI is seeking to build an investigative capability for Secure Manufacturing & Stealth programs. The risk surface for unreleased products, prototypes, confidential hardware, infrastructure, supply chain, manufacturing, and launch-readiness efforts spans employees, vendors, suppliers, logistics partners, physical movement of assets, procurement records, manufacturing workflows, access systems, device telemetry, and adversarial collection. This role is intended to build and run investigations across that specialized environment. In this role, you will: Lead complex SMS investigations to proactively identify and mitigate risks to unreleased products, prototypes, confidential hardware, secure manufacturing programs, and launch-readiness efforts. Investigate unauthorized disclosure, suspected leaks, insider risk, supplier compromise, vendor misconduct, theft, diversion, tampering, counterfeiting, surveillance, adversarial collection, and suspicious activity involving sensitive programs. Connect digital evidence, physical access activity, supply chain records, manufacturing data, vendor behavior, employee activity, collaboration metadata, procurement records, shipping data, and OSINT into clear findings and risk-reduction actions. Conduct proactive threat hunting to surface early indicators of compromise, collection, leakage, or insider activity affecting sensitive programs. Develop investigative playbooks, evidence-handling standards,

About the role We are building a higher education researcher motion that helps funded labs adopt OpenAI across core research workflows. This role will develop relationships with principal investigators, researchers, research software engineers, research computing teams, and university technology leaders, then translate high-value use cases into sustained Pro, Codex, API, and ChatGPT Edu usage. This is a hybrid business development and program management role. You will identify and qualify priority labs, design phased access and fellows programs, run pilots, remove technical and institutional blockers, and create repeatable paths from individual researchers to lab- and institution-level adoption. Additionally, this role will launch and manage a community of researchers with events, communications and support. In this role, you will: Build a pipeline of funded labs, research centers, and technical champions at priority R1 universities; qualify opportunities based on workflow value, funding path, influence, and expansion potential. Run discovery with researchers and university stakeholders to understand workflows, data and security needs, procurement constraints, and success criteria. Design and operate phased access and fellows programs, including eligibility, selection, offer mechanics, onboarding, office hours, community programming, and pilot goals. Translate research workflows into effective use of Pro, Codex, API, and ChatGPT Edu in partnership with Solutions, Product, and Education account teams. Manage pilots end to end, remove trust, funding, and technical blockers, and drive measurable activation, retention, and expansion. Turn early usage into product feedback, workflow documentation, peer proof, case studies, and repeatable enablement. Build clear handoffs and expansion paths from researcher to lab to institution; track fellow selection, activation, retained usage, workflow proof, conversion, and expansion. You might thrive in this role if you: Relevant exp

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 Stargate 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 New Geography and International Growth Lead will own the strategy for infrastructure expansion into new geographies, including market assessment, stakeholder engagement, and coordination across energy, policy, commercial, and other infrastructure workstreams. This role identifies and enables priority international growth opportunities while ensuring alignment with regional regulatory, operational, sustainability, and long-term infrastructure objectives. This is an individual contributor lead role and does not have direct reports initially. The role will translate ambiguous market-entry questions into clear recommendations, identify the conditions required for OpenAI to advance in new regions, and coordinate the cross-functional work needed to turn priority geographies into executable infrastructure options. Key Responsibilities Build market-entry frameworks for international infrastructure geographies, including power availability, land readiness, regulatory posture, commercial fit, and execution risk. Assess priority regions and countries against OpenAI’s long-term compute, energy, sustainability, policy, and operational objectives. Coordinate cross-functional geographic diligence with energy, policy, commercial, legal, finance, procurement, engineering, and site-readiness stakeholders. Lead early stakeholder mapping and engagement strategy with utilities, regulators, government entities, developers, capital partners, and other market participants. Translate regional findings into exe

About the Role As Enterprise Sales Manager, Banking, you will build and lead a team of Account Directors focused on driving strategic growth across the world’s largest banking institutions. You’ll be a hands-on front-line leader responsible for helping your team navigate complex enterprise sales cycles, deepen executive relationships, and drive adoption of OpenAI’s platform across highly regulated banking environments. This role will shape how OpenAI partners with global banks as they rethink productivity, operations, customer engagement, risk management, and software development through AI. You will help define the GTM strategy, operating model, and industry playbook for one of OpenAI’s most strategic verticals. Key Responsibilities Recruit, develop, and lead a high-performing team of Account Directors focused on large enterprise banking institutions across North America. Create a strong coaching culture with frequent deal reviews, account strategy sessions, ride-alongs, and structured 1:1s that elevate team performance. Define and refine the GTM strategy for banking, including account prioritization, executive engagement strategy, and territory planning. Drive disciplined pipeline generation, forecasting accuracy, and operational rigor across a complex enterprise sales motion. Guide teams through highly consultative, multi-stakeholder opportunities involving technology, security, compliance, legal, and procurement stakeholders. Help customers translate AI and API capabilities into measurable business outcomes across banking use cases such as employee productivity, customer operations, risk and compliance, software engineering, knowledge management, and workflow automation. Lead teams selling into highly regulated environments with a deep understanding of banking-specific risk, governance, and data security considerations. Partner closely with Product, Solutions Architecture, Technical Success, Legal, Security, and Finance to help customers successfully deploy AI a

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 Clean Energy and New Technology Lead will own infrastructure clean energy and emerging energy technology strategy and execution, identifying and deploying scalable solutions that enable resilient, low-carbon compute and data center growth. The role will work closely with regulatory and policy teams to align infrastructure expansion with OpenAI’s long-term environmental and operational objectives. This is an individual contributor lead role and does not have direct reports initially. The role will evaluate where emerging energy technologies can materially improve reliability, cost, carbon, speed, or resilience; translate those options into practical deployment pathways; and help ensure OpenAI’s infrastructure growth remains aligned with sustainability considerations. Key Responsibilities Evaluate emerging energy solutions such as clean firm power, advanced storage, grid flexibility, low-carbon backup power, heat reuse, water-related energy efficiency, and other scalable technologies where relevant. Identify pilot opportunities and deployment pathways that can move promising energy technologies from concept to commercially and operationally credible execution. Translate technical options into clear reliability, cost, schedule, carbon, regulatory, and operational implications for infrastructure decision-making. Partner with energy regulatory, policy, procurement, engineering, deployment, finance, legal, and site-readiness teams to align technology and sustainability choices with

About the Team The Finance Platform & Technology team at OpenAI builds and scales the future-proof systems and data architecture that power our core financial operations. We enable business agility, compliance, and operational excellence across quote-to-cash, procure-to-pay, inventory, and asset management for both B2B and B2C. Our focus is on modernizing workflows through strategic integrations, scalable automation, and seamless data flows empowering smarter decisions, reliable reporting, and sustainable growth as OpenAI evolves About the Role We are looking for a Supply Chain Transformation Architect to redesign and modernize our end-to-end supply chain operations supporting robotics, consumer hardware, and data center infrastructure. This role sits at the intersection of process, systems, and data. Your primary focus will be transforming supply chain processes across planning, procurement, manufacturing, logistics, and fulfillment—then enabling those processes with the right systems architecture, data foundation, and AI-driven automation. You will help move the organization from manual, reactive operations to intelligent, data-driven supply chain execution. In this role you will: Lead End-to-End Supply Chain Transformation Evaluate and redesign core supply chain processes across demand planning, supply planning, procurement, manufacturing operations, logistics, and fulfillment. Identify operational bottlenecks, fragmented workflows, and manual processes that limit scalability. Build standardized process frameworks and operating models that support rapid scaling of hardware programs. Drive Operational Excellence Implement structured supply chain practices such as: S&OP / Integrated Business Planning Supply risk management Inventory optimization Supplier collaboration frameworks Logistics visibility and execution models Establish operational KPIs and governance to improve predictability, responsiveness, and resilience. Architect the Digital Supply Chain Tra

About the Team OpenAI, in close collaboration with our capital partners, is building the world’s most advanced AI compute infrastructure ecosystem. The InfraDev team is central to this mission, setting the strategy and executing the roadmap to scale our supercomputing footprint globally. From site planning to system integration, this team operates at the intersection of commercial, technical, and operational excellence, partnering with leaders across OpenAI and the industry. About the Role We are seeking a Strategic Sourcing Manager who is ready to take on global-scale challenges in AI compute supply and manufacturing — an opportunity to shape the future of supercomputing. As part of the Infrastructure Strategy & Delivery organization supporting Industrial Compute, OpenAI’s next-generation supercomputing platform, you will lead sourcing and strategic supplier engagements for compute infrastructure at hyperscale. This role will drive commercial strategy and supplier accountability across server platforms, accelerators, rack systems, and associated thermal & power delivery components. This is not traditional procurement — it is foundational work enabling OpenAI to deploy compute faster and more efficiently than anyone in the world, while building deeply-integrated partnerships with the global compute supply chain. Key Responsibilities Develop and execute sourcing strategies for the next generation of AI compute infrastructure in partnership with engineering and program leadership. Stay at the leading edge of industry and supply-chain trends to inform category strategy and long-range planning. Initiate, negotiate, and manage commercial agreements across OEM/ODM/JDMs for accelerators, GPUs/CPUs, server platforms, rack systems, liquid-cooling components, PSUs, and supporting mechanical/electrical subsystems. Secure capacity and optionality across a rapidly scaling compute supply chain while mitigating risk and ensuring manufacturing readiness. Partner cross-funct

About the Team OpenAI is building the infrastructure foundation for the next generation of AI. The Data Center Engineering team defines the strategy, reference architectures, technical requirements, and delivery standards for the large-scale data centers that support OpenAI research, products, and infrastructure partners. As a Data Center Infrastructure Engineering Program Manager, you will help turn complex infrastructure strategy into executable programs across electrical, mechanical, controls, network, hardware, construction, commissioning, deployment, and operations workstreams. You will partner with research, hardware engineering, data center engineering, site development, supply chain, security, EHS, finance, legal, operations, and external delivery partners to bring OpenAI's infrastructure vision to life. About the Role We are looking for an Engineering Program Manager (EPM) to lead assigned infrastructure programs focused on production and non-production network integration, controls coordination, and the design and deployment of data hall or whitespace facilities. The EPM will support functional Directly Responsible Individuals (DRIs) across network, controls, structural, electrical, and mechanical disciplines. Key responsibilities include coordinating assigned workstreams and program controls, maintaining risks and interfaces, and supporting readiness within the network and data hall deployment track. The ideal candidate thrives on bringing structure to complex environments characterized by ambiguous technical requirements, large partner ecosystems, tight deadlines, and high operational stakes. This individual must be adept at keeping teams aligned on decisions, risks, dependencies, schedules, and readiness criteria, and escalating gaps or decision points when needed. Candidates should have a proven track record of managing technically challenging engineering programs across major lifecycle phases, including design, validation, procurement, construction, c

About the Team OpenAI’s Infrastructure organization builds the systems that power frontier AI workloads at global scale. As compute demand accelerates, our ability to rapidly convert infrastructure investments into usable production capacity has become mission critical. The CPU / Storage / PoP / WAN team is responsible for the end-to-end infrastructure layers required to bring compute online: server and cluster activation, storage platforms, Points of Presence (PoPs), backbone connectivity, and global network expansion. We operate across first-party facilities, colocation environments, and strategic cloud partners to ensure OpenAI can scale reliably and quickly. About the Role We are seeking a highly technical Program Manager to lead execution across CPU, Storage, PoP, and WAN infrastructure programs that directly unlock OpenAI’s next generation compute capacity. In this role, you will own complex cross-functional programs spanning compute cluster activation, storage deployment, PoP bring-up, and backbone expansion. You will coordinate hardware readiness, site readiness, network pathing, storage availability, vendor execution, and engineering dependencies required to turn contracted infrastructure into live training and inference capacity. This role requires strong technical fluency across hardware systems, network infrastructure, storage architecture, and deployment execution. You should be comfortable operating from rack-level implementation details through executive-level capacity planning discussions. This role is based in San Francisco, CA, with travel as needed. Key Responsibilities Lead end-to-end execution of CPU / GPU cluster activation programs across OpenAI’s global infrastructure footprint Drive readiness to convert contracted compute capacity into schedulable production clusters Own deployment programs for new PoPs, backbone nodes, WAN expansion, and interconnection initiatives Build integrated schedules spanning procurement, logistics, installation, st

About the Team OpenAI's Go-To-Market team helps organizations understand, adopt, and scale the use of advanced AI across their businesses. Our team brings together Sales, Solutions, Customer Success, Marketing, Partnerships, and other cross-functional leaders to support customers in deploying AI responsibly and delivering meaningful business outcomes. About the Role As an Account Director focused on Media, you will lead relationships with a select portfolio of the largest and most strategically important media, entertainment, publishing, streaming, and digital content companies. You will help these organizations apply OpenAI's technology to transform content creation, audience engagement, advertising, personalization, customer experience, employee productivity, and new AI-powered products and services. This role combines deep enterprise sales experience, executive relationship management, media industry knowledge, and technical fluency. You will work across complex, highly matrixed organizations to identify strategic opportunities, build alignment with senior decision-makers, and lead enterprise-wide adoption of OpenAI's products. You will own the full customer lifecycle, from strategic account planning and opportunity development through negotiation, deployment, consumption growth, and long-term expansion. In close partnership with Solutions, Product, Engineering, Research, and other internal teams, you will help shape OpenAI's media go-to-market strategy and establish durable relationships with some of the industry's most influential companies. In this role, you will: Manage a small portfolio of large, strategic media accounts and develop comprehensive, multiyear account plans. Build and maintain executive relationships with C-level and senior business leaders across technology, digital, editorial, content, advertising, audience development, product, data, and AI. Lead complex, enterprise-wide sales cycles involving multiple stakeholders, business units, procureme