OpenAI
Tech / AI / Software
PartnershipsLead,Healthcare
“Partnerships Lead, Healthcare at OpenAI. Skills: Strategic partnerships, Healthcare, Life Sciences, AI. Identify and evaluate strategic partnership opportunities across healthcare, biotech, pharma, life sciences, and research ecosystems. Assess datasets, benchmarks, workflows, and collaborations for their potential to improve OpenAI’s models, evaluations, products, or strategic position”
What You'll Achieve.
Scale high-impact partnerships that strengthen OpenAI’s models, products, and long-term position in these sectors; Help OpenAI determine where partnerships can create differentiated advantage—through unique datasets, benchmarks, workflows, expert feedback loops, research collaborations, and scaled product deployment opportunities; Track outcomes from partnerships and help determine where OpenAI should double down, iterate, or stop
Industry & Context.
Reason across technical, scientific, operational, legal, and business dimensions simultaneously
Willing to travel as needed for strategic partner engagement
What They're Looking For.
Must Have
7+ years of experience in partnerships, business development, strategy, product, investing, or operating roles within healthcare, life sciences, biotech, medtech, or other complex technical industries, Commercial and strategic judgment, with the ability to distinguish interesting ideas from truly high-leverage opportunities, Ability to reason across technical, scientific, operational, legal, and business dimensions simultaneously, Comfort engaging with senior executives, researchers, product leaders, and external stakeholders alike, Clear and persuasive communication in both written and verbal settings, especially with executive audiences, High ownership and ability to move complex workstreams forward without heavy structure, Ability to learn quickly and ramp into unfamiliar technical or scientific domains with humility and speed, Comfort with ambiguity and excitement to build in a rapidly evolving space, Deep care about how AI can improve health outcomes, accelerate science, and expand human capability, Willingness to travel as needed for strategic partner engagement
What You'll Do.
Identify and evaluate strategic partnership opportunities across healthcare
and research ecosystems
and collaborations for their potential to improve OpenAI’s models
or strategic position
Structure and negotiate partnerships spanning data access
research collaborations
commercial deployments
and ecosystem alliances
Translate ambiguous external opportunities into clear internal recommendations
Partner closely with Research
and GTM teams to diligence and launch partnerships
Build senior relationships with health systems
life sciences companies
academic institutions
and ecosystem leaders
Develop executive-facing memos
and strategic recommendations
Track outcomes from partnerships and help determine where OpenAI should double down
Represent OpenAI externally in high-stakes meetings
and strategic industry forums
How You'll Work.
Team & Collaboration
Partner closely with Research, Applied, Product, Legal, Policy, Safety, and GTM teams to diligence and launch partnerships
Communication Scope
Communicate clearly and persuasively in both written and verbal settings, especially with executive audiences
Process & Methodology
Move complex workstreams forward without heavy structure
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