Strategic Partnership Sales Director in United States

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. THE ROLE We’re hiring a People Business Partner to support our team during a critical phase of growth. This is a highly strategic, high-impact role for someone who has partnered closely with leadership teams and helped organizations scale with intention. You will be deeply embedded with managers, bringing clarity and rigor to how teams are structured, how leaders operate, and how talent is developed across the organization. You’ll help shape team effectiveness, identify critical talent gaps, drive talent and performance strategies that enable high-performing teams, and build the people practices and change management approaches that allow us to scale with both speed and discipline. This role requires strong business judgment and the ability to operate with deep context. You’ll partner closely with leaders to navigate complex organizational decisions, anticipate challenges before they surface, and bring a clear point of view on what great looks like at every level of the organization. RESPONSIBILITIES Strategic partnership to leadership Serve as the trusted people partner to leadership, maintaining deep business context and translating it into people priorities by proactively surfacing systemic issues, risks, and opportunities before they become urgent. Bring data-driven insights to advise management on org design, succession planning, performance, retention, and engagement. Build management capacity across the org, equ

About the Team Our Robotics team is focused on unlocking general-purpose robotics and advancing toward AGI-level intelligence in dynamic, real-world environments. Working across the full model and systems stack, we integrate cutting-edge hardware and software to explore a broad range of robotic form factors. We strive to seamlessly blend high-level AI capabilities with the physical constraints of real-world systems to improve people’s lives. About the Role We are seeking an experienced commercial attorney to serve as the primary legal partner supporting Robotics. In this role, you will provide practical, business-oriented legal counsel across hardware development, manufacturing, supply chain, procurement, and strategic commercial initiatives. You will work closely with Robotics leadership and cross-functional partners to help build scalable legal frameworks that enable innovation while thoughtfully managing risk. This is a unique opportunity to help shape the legal foundation of a rapidly growing robotics organization developing cutting-edge technologies. You will negotiate high-impact commercial agreements, advise on complex operational matters, and partner closely with technical and business teams to support the development and commercialization of next-generation robotics systems. This role is based in San Francisco, CA and requires in-person presence 4 days a week. In this role, you will: Serve as the primary legal partner supporting Robotics leadership and cross-functional teams. Provide practical, business-oriented legal advice to teams across hardware engineering, manufacturing operations, supply chain, procurement, finance, and operations. Draft, review, and negotiate complex commercial agreements, including supplier, manufacturing, development, consulting, licensing, procurement, and strategic partnership agreements. Advise on legal issues arising throughout the hardware development lifecycle, including manufacturing, supply chain operations, vendor relatio

About the Team OpenAI’s mission is to ensure that artificial general intelligence (AGI) benefits all of humanity. Achieving this goal requires more than cutting-edge research—it demands deep, ongoing engagement with the policymakers, communities, and institutions shaping the future of AI. Our approach is grounded in shared stewardship: we collaborate with communities, educators, stakeholders and frontline organizations to co-create AI tools and practices that reflect real needs and expand opportunity. The Global Affairs team leads this engagement. We cultivate authentic, collaborative relationships to ensure that diverse perspectives inform our work. We work shoulder-to-shoulder with communities — meeting people where they are, listening first, and building solutions together. Through sustained collaboration and shared learning, we co-create pilots, tools, and local programs that reflect real needs; we then partner with public officials and peer organizations to help bring those community-shaped ideas to broader practice. In close partnership with our research, product, and policy colleagues, the U.S. Policy and Partnerships team leads our Global Affairs engagement in the U.S. at the federal, state, and local levels, working across regions to anticipate emerging issues, craft forward-looking strategies, and champion policies that align technological progress with human values. Our mission is to help shape the global conversation on AI and ensure that the benefits of this transformative technology reach people everywhere. About the Role As Engagement and Outreach Lead, you will help lead OpenAI’s efforts to build trusted, long-term relationships with third-party organizations, civic and community leaders, and mission-aligned networks that help ensure AI benefits everyone. This role blends strategic partnership and policy development with visible public engagement and coalition-building. You’ll represent OpenAI across education, workforce, technology policy, civic, an

Every day, tens of millions of people come to Roblox to explore, create, play, learn, and connect with friends in 3D immersive digital experiences– all created by our global community of developers and creators. At Roblox, we’re building the tools and platform that empower our community to bring any experience that they can imagine to life. Our vision is to reimagine the way people come together, from anywhere in the world, and on any device. We’re on a mission to connect a billion people with optimism and civility, and looking for amazing talent to help us get there. A career at Roblox means you’ll be working to shape the future of human interaction, solving unique technical challenges at scale, and helping to create safer, more civil shared experiences for everyone. The Administration team at Roblox provides core administrative support and serves as a strategic partners to our business leaders. You Will: Provide strategic partnership to the Senior Vice President of Strategy and Operations and his leadership team. Manage highly sensitive and confidential information with the utmost discretion and integrity, serving as a trusted partner within the Office of the CEO to handle executive communications, strategic plans, and sensitive materials seamlessly. Translate high-level strategic objectives into actionable operational frameworks, developing repeatable playbooks, standardized processes, and tracking mechanisms to ensure flawless execution. Act as a highly collaborative liaison across various teams, executive levels, and external partners, building strong relationships and fostering a cohesive environment to align priorities and drive company-wide goals forward. Expertly manage complex and dynamic international calendars with significant movement, including proactive planning, preparing meeting materials and briefs, and anticipating scheduling conflicts. Leverages strategic foresight to design and implement innovative solutions, proactively

Every day, tens of millions of people come to Roblox to explore, create, play, learn, and connect with friends in 3D immersive digital experiences– all created by our global community of developers and creators. At Roblox, we’re building the tools and platform that empower our community to bring any experience that they can imagine to life. Our vision is to reimagine the way people come together, from anywhere in the world, and on any device. We’re on a mission to connect a billion people with optimism and civility, and looking for amazing talent to help us get there. A career at Roblox means you’ll be working to shape the future of human interaction, solving unique technical challenges at scale, and helping to create safer, more civil shared experiences for everyone. Why Content Safety? As a Principal Machine Learning Engineer for Content Safety, you will define the future of proactive moderation, driving immense social impact through cutting-edge, innovative ML solutions, focused on critical and ambiguous safety challenges. You will set the 3-5 year technical strategy and architectural blueprint for how Roblox uses machine learning for content moderation. You will own the architectural and execution roadmap of massive-scale ML systems that mitigate violative UGC content before it impacts our community. You will feel a deep sense of responsibility in proactively protecting our community thoughtfully and fairly, while balancing user freedom with platform civility. Your efforts will ensure Roblox remains one of the safest places on the internet for our broad community of over 100 million daily active users. You will: Define and Own the Technical Vision: Define and lead the multi-year technical vision, architectural strategy, and execution for machine learning solutions in Content Safety, ensuring these systems proactively and effectively detect and mitigate violative content at massive scale. Strategic Stakeholder Partnership: Collaborate with execu

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

Ready to do the most impactful work of your career? At Coinbase , we are uncompromising on our mission to increase economic freedom. The bar is high, the environment is intense, and we like it that way. This isn't a place for complacency, it’s a place to be pushed past your perceived limits. If you're ready to build the future of finance alongside people who refuse to settle for "good enough," you belong here. Coinbase is a remote-first, but not remote-only company. Expect to get together quarterly for intense in-person working sessions called “surges.” learn more about working at Coinbase . As a Staff Software Engineer on the Core Automation team within the Platform group, you'll architect and build the Agentic AI systems that are transforming how Coinbase operates. This team is reimagining customer support and compliance processes for a fully AI-driven world, designing intelligent agents, orchestration frameworks, and measurement systems that deliver delightful customer experiences at scale. You'll own the technical direction for production AI systems, working across cross-functional teams to bring this vision to reality while building primitives that scale automation across the company. What you'll do: Architect and build Agentic AI systems that power Coinbase's compliance automation and other Operations, from intelligent agents through orchestration and guardrails Design foundational APIs and measurement frameworks that ensure AI agents are grounded, relevant, and reliably deliver customer delight with minimal hallucination Lead technical direction for distributed systems underpinning AI automation, defining architecture patterns and strategic roadmaps in partnership with engineering leadership Build reusable primitives and orchestration solutions that enable AI-powered automation to scale across multiple domains beyond the initial customer support and compliance focus Mentor engineers on AI system design techniques, coding standards, and production-

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 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

Employee Applicant Privacy Notice Who we are: Shape a brighter financial future with us. Together with our members, we’re changing the way people think about and interact with personal finance. We’re a next-generation financial services company and national bank using innovative, mobile-first technology to help our millions of members reach their goals. The industry is going through an unprecedented transformation, and we’re at the forefront. We’re proud to come to work every day knowing that what we do has a direct impact on people’s lives, with our core values guiding us every step of the way. Join us to invest in yourself, your career, and the financial world. The role: We are looking for a highly motivated and experienced Finance Business Partner to join our Strategic Finance team. Strategic Finance enables SoFi to develop and execute its growth strategy by driving financial visibility and accountability. As a key business partner, you will provide financial leadership and strategic insights to SoFi Plus, our membership subscription business. This role will also focus efforts on continued improvement within overall Finance processes, scalability, and automation. What you’ll do: Facilitate annual and quarterly financial forecasting for SoFi Plus in partnership with Business Unit (BU) leaders and in collaboration with stakeholders across marketing, product, risk and operations Be a strategic partner to the Plus team to identify and monitor key performance indicators—including subscriber growth, attrition, retention, LTV, and contribution margin—and develop actionable insights Build and maintain subscription cohort and unit economics models to evaluate lifetime value, payback periods, and the financial impact of pricing and benefit changes Enable the Plus team to prioritize initiatives and make real-time decisions by evaluating and sizing impact to key growth and financial metrics Prepare recommendations on incremental investment opportunities by weighing financial

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, experts, and organizations to help them explore valuable uses of AI. We work across OpenAI to develop partnerships grounded in trust, usefulness, and measurable impact. Our work goes beyond individual launches and includes product education, partner feedback, and collaborative programs that create lasting value for partners and OpenAI. About the Role We are seeking a Strategic Partner Manager to build and manage trusted relationships on behalf of OpenAI. You will identify and develop strategic partnerships that help people explore meaningful uses of AI and create value for OpenAI and the partners we work with. As the relationship owner, you will guide opportunities from initial engagement through development, execution, and ongoing growth, coordinating across product, technical, marketing, and other internal teams. This is a senior individual contributor role for someone with an established network, strong strategic judgment, product curiosity, and a track record of turning relationships into successful partnerships. This role is based in Los Angeles, CA. We use a hybrid work model of three days in the office per week and offer relocation assistance to new employees. Domestic and occasional international travel should be expected. In This Role, You Will Originate, develop, and grow trusted external relationships. Serve as the primary owner for a portfolio of strategic partners. Understand partners’ goals, audiences, businesses, and concerns. Identify meaningful applications of OpenAI’s products and develop partnership plans around them. Lead opportunities from initial engagement through negotiation, execution, evaluation, and ongoing growth. Develop clear narratives and value propositions for prospective partnerships. Coordinate closely with teams across Produc

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, experts, and organizations to help them explore valuable uses of AI. We work across OpenAI to develop partnerships grounded in trust, usefulness, and measurable impact. Our work goes beyond individual launches and includes product education, partner feedback, and collaborative programs that create lasting value for partners and OpenAI. About the Role We are seeking a Strategic Partner Manager to build and manage trusted relationships on behalf of OpenAI. You will identify and develop strategic partnerships that help people explore meaningful uses of AI and create value for OpenAI and the partners we work with. As the relationship owner, you will guide opportunities from initial engagement through development, execution, and ongoing growth, coordinating across product, technical, marketing, and other internal teams. This is a senior individual contributor role for someone with an established network, strong strategic judgment, product curiosity, and a track record of turning relationships into successful partnerships. This role is based in New York, NY. We use a hybrid work model of three days in the office per week and offer relocation assistance to new employees. Domestic and occasional international travel should be expected. In This Role, You Will Originate, develop, and grow trusted external relationships. Serve as the primary owner for a portfolio of strategic partners. Understand partners’ goals, audiences, businesses, and concerns. Identify meaningful applications of OpenAI’s products and develop partnership plans around them. Lead opportunities from initial engagement through negotiation, execution, evaluation, and ongoing growth. Develop clear narratives and value propositions for prospective partnerships. Coordinate closely with teams across Product,

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. Role Description We are seeking a Strategic Finance Lead to serve as a key partner to Plaid’s Engineering and Product organization. This person will own product-level revenue and gross margin forecasting, as well as the analytical frameworks that guide how Plaid deploys capital and allocates resources across these areas. As the Strategic Finance Lead, Product & Engineering, you will lead the finance partnership for a set of critical product areas, working directly with the relevant Product and Engineering leaders. Responsibilities Product-Level Forecasting . Own revenue and gross margin forecasts for your product areas, balancing bottom-up builds with top-down sanity checks to arrive at the most robust point of view. Resource Allocation & Capacity Planning. Partner with Product and Engineering leaders on headcount planning, roadmap-based capacity forecasting, and OpEx discipline, surfacing and supporting the resolution of trade-offs. Performance Visibility . Own the recurring reporting cadence for your product areas, including KPI tracking, variance analysis, and the early identification of risks and opportunities. Cross-Functional Partnership . Serve as the primary finance partner to Produc

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 work across Partnerships, GTM, Product, Compute, and Operations to allocate and deploy resources to the highest-impact opportunities while protecting sustainable unit economics. The B2B Strategic Finance team focuses on the financial performance of our B2B products and GTM functions, ensuring tight alignment between financial objectives and company strategy. We: Drive operational planning, financial forecasting, and performance management for our B2B business, Provide analytically-grounded insights on B2B product and financial performance to inform strategic resource allocation, Build the “0→1” financial foundations required to scale and accelerate growth. Within B2B, Partnerships are a critical lever to accelerate growth. You will help shape this business and drive successful outcomes from it. About the Role This Strategic Finance Partnerships hire will own our B2B Partnerships P&L and help drive strategic decision-making. You will be a critical finance partner to our Partnership teams, deal leads, Product owners, and Operations teams, responsible for pricing, structuring and driving success from partnerships, translating opportunities into decision- and exec-ready economics, and managing the overall Partnerships book of business. You will shape how OpenAI approaches Partnerships revenue targets, unit economics, investments, measurement, and prioritization. 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: Help manage the overall Partnerships business at a strategic priority, top-line impact, and resourcing / investment level. Own the financial evaluation of new B2B partnerships, modeling revenue, contribution margin, compute costs, cash flow, investment needs, and risk. Driv