Strategic Partnerships Director in San Francisco

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 Role We are looking for a senior partner success and learning professional to activate cloud partners to co-sell and deploy customer solutions at scale. This role leads the enablement strategy and execution that equip partner teams to turn joint priorities into measurable customer and business outcomes. As a trusted advisor to strategic partners, you will turn shared business priorities into practical enablement programs that help partner sales, technical, customer success, and leadership teams identify joint opportunities, co-sell effectively, and deploy customer solutions successfully. You will own the partner enablement relationship for an assigned portfolio and work across internal teams to ensure programs are coordinated, scalable, and connected to measurable partner, customer, and business outcomes. This is not a traditional training delivery role or a quota-carrying partner account manager position. It is a consultative, partner-facing role for someone who can shape strategy, build relationships, translate complex AI capabilities into effective learning experiences, lead persuasive enablement sessions, and guide strategic partners toward sustained success. In this role, you will: Own strategic partner enablement and success Serve as the primary enablement and success lead for a portfolio of strategic cloud platforms. Develop a deep understanding of each partner’s business, priorities, audiences, existing learning infrastructure, and strategic relationship with our company. Build partner-specific enablement strategies aligned to shared goals, priorities, and the broader partnership strategy. Establish trusted relationships with partner leaders, alliance teams, enablement stakeholders, sales organizations, technical communities, and post-sales teams. Lead ongoing planning conversations, enablement reviews, stakeholder check-ins, and executive updates that keep partners and internal teams aligned. Identify gaps, risks, opportunities, and emerging partn

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

About the Team The Strategic Futures team is a small, research- and writing-focused group exploring how advanced AI could reshape public policy, institutions, and society over the long term. We operate like an internal think tank: developing clear views of desirable long-range outcomes, examining the choices that could make those outcomes more likely, and producing ideas that help OpenAI and the broader public navigate profound technological change. The team is intentionally lean and highly collaborative. Our work draws from public policy, law, economics, political science, history, institutional design, technology, and other relevant disciplines. We partner closely with experts across OpenAI to connect long-range thinking with evolving AI capabilities, organizational priorities, and real-world policy questions. About the Role We are looking for a highly organized and strategic operator to serve as Chief of Staff and Program Manager for the Strategic Futures team. Working closely with the team’s leader, you will translate broad priorities into coordinated execution, establish the systems and operating rhythms that keep a small team performing at a high level, and ensure important work moves forward with clarity and consistency. This is a hands-on role combining chief-of-staff partnership, program management, strategic planning, cross-functional coordination, and communications. You will make it easier for the team to focus on high-quality research and writing by ensuring priorities are clear, decisions are documented, dependencies are visible, collaborators are engaged, and follow-through is reliable. You will also serve as a central connector between Strategic Futures and teams across OpenAI, helping the group build trusted relationships, navigate organizational complexity, and contribute effectively to broader company priorities. In this role, you will: Partner closely with the leader of Strategic Futures to translate the team’s strategic direction into clear prio

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 are looking for an Account Executive to join our dynamic team. This role is a great fit for those with sales experience looking to grow within a high-growth startup environment. As an Account Executive, you will prospect and close new business alongside our founders and Marketing team. You’ll consult with our existing customer base and prospective customers to build meaningful relationships and shape our product and go-to-market roadmaps. RESPONSIBILITIES Help build the foundation and processes for customer-facing teams at Baseten Lead, negotiate, and execute new sales opportunities for Baseten In partnership with the marketing and BDR team, develop a strong sales pipeline to support quarterly and annual sales targets Establish and maintain relationships with key stakeholders within sales accounts Work cross-functionally to improve the customer experience and ensure sales effectiveness REQUIREMENTS 5+ years of sales experience in a SaaS business Experience in selling to technical audiences Experience with developer/machine-learning tooling preferred, but not required Proven ability to close complex sales cycles Proficiency with sales and marketing automation tools Interest in working at an early-stage, fast-paced startup BENEFITS Competitive compensation, including meaningful equity. 100% coverage of medical, dental, and vision insurance for employee and dependents Flexible PTO policy including company wide

About the Role As Head of Finance - Data Centers, you will be the finance leader for OpenAI’s self-built data center efforts. You will partner with teams across infrastructure, real estate, energy, construction, procurement, and finance to turn proposed sites into sound investment decisions and funded projects. This role spans the full development lifecycle: evaluating opportunities, building investment cases, forecasting capital needs, managing construction budgets, and helping determine how projects should be financed. You will give leadership a clear view of project economics, funding requirements, and risks as we build data center capacity at scale. In this role, you will: Lead financial evaluation of proposed data center and related power infrastructure projects, including site economics, development costs, capacity phasing, lifecycle costs, and key risks. Build and own project-level models and capital expenditure forecasts that connect construction schedules, power delivery, equipment procurement, contingencies, and funding needs. Establish capital budgets and financial controls for active builds. Track commitments, actual spending, change orders, and forecasts to completion; identify cost or schedule risks early. Partner with development, engineering, energy, construction, and procurement leaders on decisions that affect cost, timing, and long-term performance. Work with Treasury, Corporate Finance, Tax, and Legal to evaluate financing options, including project or construction debt, leases, joint ventures, and other partnership structures where appropriate. Prepare investment recommendations and capital approval materials for senior leadership, translating complex project details into clear choices and tradeoffs. Build a consistent portfolio view of project costs, cash requirements, milestones, and financial performance. Partner with Accounting and operations teams through project completion and handoff. You might thrive in this role if you have: Prior exper

About the Team OpenAI’s API Multicloud team is responsible for extending OpenAI’s API platform into strategic cloud environments, starting with AWS . The team’s mission is to distribute OpenAI’s API broadly and safely by enabling key API technologies in cloud-native environments, in close partnership with Amazon and internal teams across Codex, Research, Safety Systems, and Applied. The team is focused on bringing core developer and enterprise capabilities into cloud-native environments, including cloud-hosted Codex, model customization / post-training as a service, and new stateful runtime environments for agentic workloads. This work sits at the intersection of production ML systems, developer platforms, model behavior, and large-scale infrastructure. About the Role We’re looking for a backend engineer who can quickly understand OpenAI’s models, products, and systems, then adapt first-party deployments for other cloud platforms. You’ll build backend services, APIs, SDK integrations, authentication flows, and cloud service infrastructure that let developers use OpenAI capabilities in the cloud environments where they already build. This role involves working across teams, sometimes embedded with partner product groups, to ship products quickly and across multiple platforms at the same time. It’s a strong fit for engineers who have built developer tools, especially AI-powered tools, communicate clearly across technical boundaries, and can shape architectures that support different deployment models; experience building cloud services is a strong plus. In this role, you will: Build backend and infrastructure systems that extend OpenAI’s API platform into cloud-native environments, like AWS. Design and ship cloud-contained products that allow customers to use OpenAI capabilities while keeping workloads and data within cloud environments. Help stand up cloud-hosted Codex experiences powered by the OpenAI Responses API. Build the infrastructure and runtime abstractions

About the Team OpenAI’s API Multicloud team is responsible for extending OpenAI’s API platform into strategic cloud environments, starting with AWS . The team’s mission is to distribute OpenAI’s API broadly and safely by enabling key API technologies in AWS-native environments, in close partnership with Amazon and internal teams across Codex, Research, Safety Systems, and Applied. The team is focused on bringing core developer and enterprise capabilities into cloud-native environments, including AWS-hosted Codex, model customization / post-training as a service, and new stateful runtime environments for agentic workloads. This work sits at the intersection of production ML systems, developer platforms, model behavior, and large-scale infrastructure. About the Role We’re hiring Machine Learning Engineers to build and improve the AI systems that help strategic partners adapt OpenAI models to important use cases in cloud-native environments. This role spans post-training workflows, evaluation, data pipelines, model behavior, and API/infrastructure integration. You’ll work at the boundary between partner needs and core ML systems: helping teams understand what is and isn’t working, diagnosing issues in training and evaluation workflows, and turning those learnings into improvements to the underlying platform. You should enjoy working with external technical partners, extracting the real goal from messy requests, and pushing back or reframing when the requested experiment is not the highest-leverage path. You’ll collaborate closely with Research, Applied, Safety Systems, infrastructure teams, and external technical partners to solve ambiguous model-performance problems. When you succeed, strategic partners and internal teams will be able to improve model behavior with confidence, driving measurable product improvements while the systems behind that work become more reliable, scalable, and effective over time. In this role, you will Partner with strategic customers and in

About the Role We’re looking for a senior individual contributor to lead GTM Strategy & Operations for Security & Safety, in close partnership with the Policy team. This role will help translate policy, security, and safety considerations into clear GTM strategies, operating models, launch plans, and scalable execution mechanisms. You’ll work across Product, Policy, Safety, Security, Legal, Data, Sales, Customer Success, Marketing, and Revenue Operations to understand customer and field needs, shape business recommendations, and support the successful adoption of security- and safety-critical products and capabilities. This role is ideal for someone who combines strong strategic and operational judgment with the ability to work effectively on complex policy-adjacent topics. You’ll help ensure that GTM plans reflect relevant policy requirements and that recurring customer and field insights inform future policy and product decisions. In this role, you will: Define the GTM operating model for the Security & Safety program, including ownership, decision forums, planning cadences, and escalation paths. Partner with Policy, Product, Security, Safety, Legal, and Data to translate policy considerations into actionable GTM guidance and operating processes. Develop go-to-market strategy for cybersecurity models, including target customers, use cases, commercialization approach, launch readiness, success metrics, and field enablement. Build mechanisms to capture recurring customer and field needs related to security, safety, application security, and policy implementation. Translate customer feedback and field requirements into recommendations for product roadmaps, policy development, enablement, and operational priorities. Support the operationalization of data-retention policies and related customer or deployment requirements across GTM. Track customer demand, implementation blockers, and market signals to refine GTM strategy and inform Policy and Product partne

About the Team OpenAI's Industrial Compute organization is building the world's most advanced AI infrastructure ecosystem. In partnership with leading cloud providers, hardware manufacturers, utilities, construction partners, and internal engineering organizations, we are delivering hyperscale AI campuses that power the next generation of frontier AI models. Infrastructure Delivery Operations sits at the center of this effort. Our team develops the operating model that connects infrastructure strategy, supply planning, manufacturing operations, and delivery into a single, integrated system that enables OpenAI to deploy AI infrastructure predictably at scale. We partner across Hardware Engineering, Network Engineering, Capacity Delivery, Hardware Operations, Security, Finance, Strategic Sourcing, and external infrastructure partners to create a single, integrated view of program health. Through governance, operational analytics, executive reporting, and scalable operating mechanisms, we enable leaders to proactively manage risk, optimize capacity, and deliver infrastructure predictably at Industrial Compute speed. About the Role We are seeking a Technical Program Manager, Infrastructure Delivery Operations to drive integrated strategy and delivery across OpenAI's rapidly expanding AI infrastructure portfolio. This role sits at the intersection of infrastructure strategy, New Product Introduction (NPI), supply planning, manufacturing operations, and infrastructure delivery. You will lead highly cross-functional programs spanning engineering, supply planning, manufacturing, logistics, construction, commissioning, and operations, ensuring technical and operational dependencies remain synchronized from planning through production readiness. Beyond driving program execution, you will leverage operational insights to improve capacity planning, infrastructure strategy, and deployment readiness. You will also help operationalize new technologies and suppliers by partnering w

About the Team OpenAI Finance is responsible for ensuring the organization is set up for success in pursuit of its mission. The Technical Accounting team plays a crucial role in helping OpenAI navigate complex, judgmental, and rapidly evolving accounting matters with rigor and clarity. We aim to bring both technical excellence and strong business partnership to some of the most novel accounting questions in the industry. About the Role As Senior Manager, Technical Accounting, Compute Infrastructure, you will lead the evaluation, documentation, and operationalization of complex accounting matters related to OpenAI's compute infrastructure, strategic investments, and other non-routine business activities.. This role sits at the intersection of U.S. GAAP technical accounting, infrastructure strategy, financial reporting, controls, and cross-functional execution. Key areas may include cloud compute arrangements, data center and colocation arrangements, lease accounting under ASC 842, power purchase agreements, strategic investments, consolidation evaluations under ASC 810, financial instruments, and other emerging or non-standard arrangements. 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 technical accounting analysis for complex, judgmental, and non-routine transactions under U.S. GAAP. Evaluate accounting implications for compute infrastructure arrangements, including cloud compute, data center, colocation, lease, PPA, infrastructure procurement, and related commercial arrangements. Partner with Controllership, Tax, Legal, FP&A, Procurement, Infrastructure, and other cross-functional teams to assess the accounting implications of new products, commercial arrangements, strategic transactions, and business initiatives. Prepare and review technical accounting memoranda, position papers, and other auditor-ready documentation. Translate

About the Team OpenAI Finance is responsible for ensuring the organization is set up for success in pursuit of its mission. The Technical Accounting team plays a crucial role in helping OpenAI navigate complex, judgmental, and rapidly evolving accounting matters with rigor and clarity. We aim to bring both technical excellence and strong business partnership to some of the most novel accounting questions in the industry. About the Role As Senior Manager, Technical Accounting, Compute Infrastructure, you will lead the evaluation, documentation, and operationalization of complex accounting matters related to OpenAI's compute infrastructure, strategic investments, and other non-routine business activities.. This role sits at the intersection of U.S. GAAP technical accounting, infrastructure strategy, financial reporting, controls, and cross-functional execution. Key areas may include cloud compute arrangements, data center and colocation arrangements, lease accounting under ASC 842, power purchase agreements, strategic investments, consolidation evaluations under ASC 810, financial instruments, and other emerging or non-standard arrangements. This role is based in San Francisco, CA or remote. 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 technical accounting analysis for complex, judgmental, and non-routine transactions under U.S. GAAP. Evaluate accounting implications for compute infrastructure arrangements, including cloud compute, data center, colocation, lease, PPA, infrastructure procurement, and related commercial arrangements. Partner with Controllership, Tax, Legal, FP&A, Procurement, Infrastructure, and other cross-functional teams to assess the accounting implications of new products, commercial arrangements, strategic transactions, and business initiatives. Prepare and review technical accounting memoranda, position papers, and other auditor-ready documentation.

About the Team The Integrated Marketing team sits at the center of product, brand, creative, media, research, and GTM work. We partner closely with PMM, Product, Developer Relations, Design, Comms, and agency teams to shape launches and campaigns that are clear, distinctive, and grounded in real audience insight. This is a growing function, so the team needs people who can both raise the quality of the work and build the operating model around it: bringing strong judgment, high agency, and trusted partnership to complex, visible moments. About the Role OpenAI business launches move quickly and often involve new products, model capabilities, or research that can change how businesses operate. We’re looking for an integrated marketing manager to help shape those launches from early strategy through execution. You’ll develop a point of view on the audience, positioning, creative direction, and channels, and help turn complex product and research advances into campaigns that connect with customers. You’ll partner across Product, Product Marketing, Research, Brand, Creative, Communications, Growth, and Sales, along with external agencies. The right person understands technology, has strong strategic and creative instincts, and knows how to bring together the right people and ideas to produce work that is clear, credible, and effective. This is a hybrid role based in San Francisco, with three days a week in the office. In this role, you will: Develop integrated marketing strategies for business product launches, new capabilities, model releases, and research moments. Partner with Product, Product Marketing, and Research to understand what’s changing, identify the right audiences, and shape positioning and launch narratives. Lead campaigns that bring launches to life across creative, communications, customer marketing, developer marketing, growth, sales, and paid, owned, and earned channels. Identify customer stories, product demonstrations, and creative concepts that make

About the Team OpenAI’s Hardware organization develops AI-native silicon and system-level solutions for the unique demands of advanced AI workloads. Building on efforts like Jalapeño, the team is developing future generations of AI-native silicon and tightly integrated systems to power the next generation of frontier models. By co-designing chips, systems, tools, and methodologies, the team helps deliver faster, more efficient, and production-ready hardware for OpenAI’s supercomputing platform. About the Role As an AI Accelerator Systems Software Technical Program manager at OpenAI, you will help bring our chips/system hardware roadmap to life, navigating an array of technical and partnership challenges. We’re looking for people excited to push the frontiers of computing by navigating technical explorations and are passionate about building. 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: Manage the end-to-end software development from design to implementation for our AI acceleration systems, working across technical, cross-functional and external stakeholders Lead planning and scheduling of AI system software designs with our strategic partners and vendors Coordinate and lead internal resources and communication for efficient interaction with partners and vendors. You might thrive in this role if you: Have experience as a software technical program manager for data center system products (server, GPU, TPU, networking, storage and so on) taking products from concept to volume in a data center environment ensuring the systems scale with high quality Know end-to-end software development program management techniques from concept, design, production, deployment into the data center Want to help design some of the world’s largest supercomputing systems, working at the edge of complex hardware challenges Enjoy working with and enabling world-clas

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 The Go To Market (GTM) team at OpenAI is dedicated to helping customers realize the transformative potential of AI technology. We are seeking a Revenue Operations Manager to support and optimize the operations within our Technical Success team, working closely with cross-functional teams to drive operational excellence and maximize customer impact. As a Revenue Operations Manager, you will focus on designing processes that enhance the customer experience, optimizing internal workflows, and delivering data-driven insights that support strategic decision-making across teams. In this role, you'll: Design and implement processes to support the OpenAI Technical Success team, ensuring seamless management of customer interactions throughout the lifecycle, from onboarding to ongoing technical support and services delivery. Work closely with technical teams to ensure that operational processes are scalable and efficiently integrated into customer success workflows. Define and track key performance indicators (KPIs) specific to technical success, developing and maintaining dashboards to provide actionable insights to stakeholders and leadership. Manage capacity and coverage strategy for the Technical Success team, working with leadership to ensure alignment with business objectives and offering data-driven recommendations for improvements. P