B2B Ecosystem Lead, Business Development

Partnerships - San Francisco and New York City

About the Team:

We are a small and fast-moving B2B partnerships team that shapes and executes OpenAI’s most important collaborations. We develop strategic and product partnerships across the B2B ecosystem, bringing together OpenAI’s capabilities and partners’ technology, expertise, data, workflows, and customer relationships. Working closely with Product, Engineering, and Sales, we turn these opportunities into useful offerings and new ways for businesses to adopt and benefit from OpenAI.

About the Role:

As a B2B Ecosystem Lead, you will identify, develop, and execute strategic and product partnerships across B2B segments. This is a hands-on individual contributor role spanning opportunity assessment, partnership design, commercial negotiation, and execution. You will own the partner work behind product initiatives, from defining partner needs through launch and sustained adoption at scale. These may include Sign in with ChatGPT and industry-specific offerings. You bring a generalist’s ability to connect product priorities with partner capabilities, build a business case, and align teams around a practical path forward. You will remain accountable after signing and launch, including for selected high-touch strategic partnerships.

Key Responsibilities:

• Identify strategic and product partnership opportunities across B2B segments; translate product priorities and customer needs into partner plans, joint value propositions, and a focused set of prospective partners.
• Own the partner work stream for assigned product initiatives, aligning requirements, commitments, milestones, and ongoing responsibilities with Product, Engineering, and partner teams.
• Develop business cases and negotiate product and commercial partnerships with Legal, Finance, and Product, including selected high-touch strategic deals in coordination with other partnership owners.
• Take partner initiatives from pilot through launch and scale, defining readiness criteria, coordinating integrations, and expanding successful offerings to more partners and business customers.
• Work with Sales and partner teams on target accounts, referrals, joint selling, and customer introductions, with clear responsibilities for follow-up and opportunity tracking.
• Coordinate Product, Engineering, Sales, Marketing, Legal, Finance, Security, Policy, and Operations to resolve launch and adoption barriers, with clear ownership and handoffs into ongoing partner programs.
• Maintain partner relationships after launch and bring customer feedback, integration gaps, and adoption barriers back to Product and Engineering; help turn early implementations into repeatable offerings.
• Define success measures with product and go-to-market teams, track activation, sustained usage, customer outcomes, and commercial impact, and drive follow-up when an initiative falls short.

Qualifications:

• 8+ years of experience in business development, strategic or product partnerships, or related roles developing commercial opportunities in technology or other B2B businesses.
• Experience developing B2B partnerships and taking a product, integration, or partner initiative from concept or pilot through launch and sustained adoption, working closely with product and technical teams.
• A broad business perspective and the ability to learn unfamiliar industries, evaluate partner capabilities and strategic fit, and turn an ambiguous opportunity into a clear business case and partnership plan.
• Understanding of how businesses use software, data, and services, and how product integrations, distribution, and complementary capabilities create value. Experience across B2B sectors and business models is a plus.
• Strong commercial and analytical judgmentance data to guide decisions.
• Ability to build relationships with partner practitioners and leadersal authority.
• Clear writing and communication, curiosity about AI, and a willingness to do the detailed work of growing partnerships. You combine initiative and adaptability with disciplined follow-through.

About OpenAI

OpenAI is an AI research and deployment company dedicated to ensuring that general-purpose artificial intelligence benefits all of humanity. We push the boundaries of the capabilities of AI systems and seek to safely deploy them to the world through our products. AI is an extremely powerful tool that must be created with safety and human needs at its core the full spectrum of humanity.

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At OpenAI, we believe artificial intelligence has the potential to help people solve immense global challenges, and we want the upside of AI to be widely shared. Join us in shaping the future of technology.

Compensation

$333K – $445K + Offers Equity

The base pay offered may vary depending on multiple individualized factorsance-related bonus(es) for eligible employees, and the following benefits.

• Medical, dental, and vision insurance for you and your family, with employer contributions to Health Savings Accounts
• Pre-tax accounts for Health FSA, Dependent Care FSA, and commuter expenses (parking and transit)
• 401(k) retirement plan with employer match
• Paid parental leave (up to 24 weeks for birth parents and 20 weeks for non-birthing parents), plus paid medical and caregiver leave (up to 8 weeks)
• Paid time off: flexible PTO for exempt employees and up to 15 days annually for non-exempt employees
• 13+ paid company holidays, and multiple paid coordinated company office closures throughout the year for focus and recharge, plus paid sick or safe time (1 hour per 30 hours worked, or more, as required by applicable state or local law)
• Mental health and wellness support
• Employer-paid basic life and disability coverage
• Annual learning and development stipend to fuel your professional growth
• Daily meals in our offices, and meal delivery credits as eligible
• Relocation support for eligible employees
• Additional taxable fringe benefits, such as charitable donation matching and wellness stipends, may also be provided.

More details about our benefits are available to candidates during the hiring process.

This role is at-will and OpenAI reserves the right to modify base pay and other compensation components at any time based on individual performance, team or company results, or market conditions.