OpenAI
Technology
PartnerManager,CloudServiceProviderPartnerships
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“Partner Manager, Cloud Service Provider Partnerships at OpenAI. Skills: Cloud partnerships, Strategic partnerships, GTM leadership. Lead OpenAI's work with major cloud providers. Inform product priorities”
What You'll Achieve.
Turn agreements into reliable launches; Turn agreements into user experiences; Turn agreements into sustained impact; Scale model availability; Scale model use
Industry & Context.
Context-switch; Decision making
What They're Looking For.
Must Have
12+ years experience business development, 12+ years experience partnerships, 12+ years experience product strategy, Experience owning major cloud provider relationships, Technical fluency for product/engineering, Cross-functional translation ability, Commercial judgment, Comfort making decisions incomplete information, Excellent communication skills, Excellent relationship-building skills
Nice to Have
Experience working with major cloud provider, Experience working with AI infrastructure company, Experience working with developer platform, Experience working with high-growth enterprise technology company
What You'll Do.
Lead OpenAI's work with major cloud providers
Inform product priorities
Inform engineering priorities
Inform launch priorities
Drive work to measurable results
Shape partnership operating plan
Align product priorities
Align launch milestones
Manage partner dependencies
Manage customer feedback loops
Manage measures of adoption
Manage measures of impact
Partner with GTM leadership
Support business targets
Make it easier for customers
Coordinate work across APIs
Coordinate work across model serving
Coordinate work across security
Coordinate work across compliance
Coordinate work across identity
Coordinate work across billing
Coordinate work across reliability
Coordinate work across support
Drive launch readiness
Ensure cross-functional execution
Ensure engagement across Product
Ensure engagement across Eng
Ensure engagement across GTM
Bring customer feedback to OpenAI
Bring partner feedback to OpenAI
Run senior partner meetings
Run operating reviews
Run launch readiness reviews
Follow through on decisions
Build simple playbooks
Build metrics for cloud partnerships
How You'll Work.
Team & Collaboration
Cross-functional partners; GTM leadership; Product teams; Engineering teams; Internal executives; External executives
Communication Scope
Executive presentations; Relationship building
Process & Methodology
Roadmap alignment, Launch milestones
Full Job Description
About the Team We are a small and fast-moving partnerships team that shapes and executes all aspects of collaboration with the largest partners. Your mission is to build, scale, and manage strategic partnerships to help advance OpenAI’s priorities. You will help manage and execute partnerships that accelerate adoption, unlock new capabilities, and extend OpenAI’s platform across key industries and use cases. About the Role In this role, you will manage OpenAI’s relationships with major cloud service providers (CSPs) to help scale our models' availability and use. These partnerships have huge customer and business impact: broader model access, faster launches, clearer buying paths, and stronger adoption by enterprises and developers. You’ll build and lead the partnerships day to day: ensuring strong delivery with Research, Product, and Engineering, and coordinating with GTM and Marketing where needed for launch readiness; aligning internal executives and cross-functional leaders; and owning prominent external relationships. Success in this role means contributing to important business outcomes by turning agreements into reliable launches, strong user experiences, and sustained impact. You are a product-focused, high judgment senior operator with a record of getting complex partnerships over the line. You understand how cloud providers work, including the product, marketplace, procurement, and launch paths that shape customer adoption. You move fast, can context-switch easily, and can motivate both external executives and internal teams. You set clear priorities, run tight execution, and deliver results. Key Responsibilities: - Alongside GTM and Product, lead OpenAI’s work with major cloud providers, helping inform product, engineering, and launch priorities with cross-functional partners and driving the work to measurable results. - Shape the partnership operating plan for assigned cloud provider relationship: product priorities, roadmap alignment, launch milestones,
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