Business Lead, Special Situations

OpenAI
San Francisco, New York
Workplace: HybridFull timeUSD 333,000 - 370,000 annuallyFunction: Business Development & PartnershipsSkills: ["Program leadership","Organizational skills","Relationship leadership","Conflict resolution","Executive communication"]

Own and advance a strategically important partnership as the day-to-day DRI and operating leader. Drive integrated partnership strategy, operating cadence, and high-priority initiatives from problem definition through decisions, implementation, and measurable outcomes. Stand up a joint go-to-market motion, land the first cohort of joint customers, and execute enterprise deployments—while shaping defensible integration plans across product, engineering, legal, finance, and deployment teams.

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Business Lead, Special Situations

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Job Summary

Own and advance a strategically important partnership as the day-to-day DRI and operating leader. Drive integrated partnership strategy, operating cadence, and high-priority initiatives from problem definition through decisions, implementation, and measurable outcomes. Stand up a joint go-to-market motion, land the first cohort of joint customers, and execute enterprise deployments—while shaping defensible integration plans across product, engineering, legal, finance, and deployment teams.
Location: San Francisco, New York
Workplace: Hybrid
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: Business Development & Partnerships
Seniority: Sr. Manager level

Key Responsibilities

  • •Own the integrated partnership strategy and operating plan, including priorities, outcomes, owners, dependencies, and decision points.
  • •Drive the highest-priority initiatives from problem definition through decision, implementation, and measurable outcome.
  • •Build and run an internal and external operating cadence to create decision velocity, accountability, and early visibility into risk.
  • •Develop trusted, high-accountability relationships across executive, commercial, product, technical, legal, finance, and deployment stakeholders.
  • •Stand up a joint go-to-market motion and deliver the first cohort of joint customers, including preparation of executive decisions and escalations for material commitments.

Pay and Benefits

Salary: USD 333,000 - 370,000 annually
Equity and Bonus:Equity

Key Requirements

  • •Substantial experience leading high-stakes business operations, strategic partnerships, product operations, or complex cross-functional programs.
  • •A track record as the accountable operator for consequential outcomes, not only as an advisor or coordinator.
  • •Excellent program leadership and organizational skills, with a bias toward simple mechanisms that improve decisions and execution.
  • •Exceptional internal and external relationship leadership, including candid communication, conflict resolution, and expectation management.
  • •Strong product judgment with sufficient technical fluency to form a defensible integration thesis and collaborate credibly with technical counterparts.
Experience:Strategic partnershipsBusiness operationsProduct operationsCross-functional programsEnterprise deployment
Skills:Program leadershipOrganizational skillsRelationship leadershipConflict resolutionExecutive communication

Company Brief

OpenAI
Develops and deploys advanced generative AI models (including ChatGPT and DALL·E) and AI infrastructure, providing APIs and consumer products to accelerate safe AGI for broad benefit.
Industry: AI & Machine Learning
Company Size: Enterprise (1,001+ employees)
Revenue: USD 1B+
Growth: Scaleup
Valuation: Hectocorn (USD 100B+)
Funding: Series E+
Headquarters: San Francisco, United States
Founded: 2015
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