AI Partner Director

OpenAI, Inc.; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 297,000 - 420,000; Full time

Job summary

OpenAI, Inc. is seeking a senior partnerships leader in San Francisco to drive revenue and growth through enterprise partner relationships across the Americas.

You will blend executive relationship management withHands-on sales execution to build joint, repeatable cybersecurity offerings. You will lead partner plans, coordinate with technical and GTM teams, and help customers move from discovery to deployment.

Qualifications

• You have delivered revenue through enterprise partner sales, alliances, or business development in cybersecurity, cloud, or AI.

Responsibilities

• Own commercial results. Grow revenue through partner relationships. Build qualified pipeline, progress opportunities, and support sustained customer use and expansion.
• Build partner plans and practices. Work with partner executives and technical teams to turn customer demand into joint business plans and commercially viable cybersecurity offerings.
• Lead joint customer sales. Work with partner sellers and OpenAI account teams from discovery through evaluation, procurement, and close.
• Develop partner champions. Build trusted relationships with executive sponsors, security practice leaders, technical champions, and field sellers.
• Turn cyber and AI use cases into credible offers. Explore how AI can support customer needs in areas such as vulnerability assessment, application security, and remediation.
• Improve execution with evidence. Bring recurring needs and practical lessons to product, technical, and go-to-market teams.

Skills

Enterprise partner sales

Partner business acumen

Security buyers credibility

Product adoption experience

Trust with partners

Account planning

Forecasting skills

Model deployment familiarity

Job description

About The Role

You'll help shape how OpenAI cybersecurity partners bring frontier AI to defenders across the Americas. Working with partner executives and security practitioners, you’ll turn customer needs into joint opportunities, successful deployments, and repeatable offerings. This role combines executive partnership leadership with direct responsibility for growing the business in a rapidly developing market.

About The Role

You'll help shape how OpenAI cybersecurity partners bring frontier AI to defenders across the Americas. Working with partner executives and security practitioners, you’ll turn customer needs into joint opportunities, successful deployments, and repeatable offerings. This role combines executive partnership leadership with direct responsibility for growing the business in a rapidly developing market.

In This Role, You Will

• Own commercial results. Grow revenue through partner relationships. Build qualified pipeline, progress opportunities, and support sustained customer use and expansion. Maintain accurate opportunity records and a disciplined forecast.
• Build partner plans and practices. Work with partner executives and technical teams to turn customer demand into joint business plans and commercially viable cybersecurity offerings. Help partners establish the service economics, practitioner capacity, and delivery quality needed to build a repeatable business.
• Lead joint customer sales. Work with partner sellers and OpenAI account teams from discovery and customer business cases through evaluation, procurement, and close. Coordinate co-sell, marketplace, and channel activity, address buying and delivery barriers, and help customers move into deployment.
• Develop partner champions. Build trusted relationships with executive sponsors, security practice leaders, technical champions, and field sellers. Equip them to explain the customer value, identify opportunities, and sell and deliver supported AI-enabled security solutions.
• Turn cyber and AI use cases into credible offers. Explore how AI can support customer needs in areas such as vulnerability assessment, application security, and remediation. Work with specialists to validate capabilities, security outcomes, and delivery readiness before making commitments.
• Improve execution with evidence. Use what you learn from customer evaluations and deployments to improve offerings. Bring recurring needs and practical lessons to OpenAI’s product, technical, and go‑to‑market teams.

You Might Thrive In This Role If You Have

• A record of delivering revenue through enterprise partner sales, alliances, or business development in cybersecurity, cloud, or AI, including personally progressing complex customer opportunities.
• Strong partner business acumen and experience building repeatable offerings. You understand how services firms, managed security providers, cloud providers, security software companies, and resellers invest, make money, and mobilize their sellers and practitioners.
• Credibility with enterprise security buyers and practitioners. You can explain how AI capabilities fit into security workflows, recognize the importance of tools, context, and permissions, and involve technical specialists to validate customer commitments.
• Experience helping enterprise customers adopt a new product while its market was still forming.
• The ability to earn trust with partner executives and champions while working effectively with account teams, alliance leaders, technical teams, Product, and Marketing.
• Strong account planning, opportunity management, and forecasting skills, with the judgment and persistence to build a business in a developing market.
• Deeper familiarity with how a model and its harness work together, including how the surrounding software supplies tools and context and enforces permissions.

What Success Looks Like

• Revenue growth supported by qualified pipeline, healthy conversion, and accurate forecasting.
• Active partner champions and commercially viable practices and offerings that generate repeatable customer opportunities.
• Customer deployments that progress to sustained use, expansion, and demonstrable security outcomes.

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, and to achieve our mission, we must encompass and value the many different perspectives, voices, and experiences that form the full spectrum of humanity.

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Compensation Range: $297K - $420K