--- title: 'B2B Ecosystem Lead, Business Development at OpenAI' canonical: 'https://feeny.ai/job/b2b-ecosystem-lead-business-development-openai-san-francisco-y31vpy889d0y' type: 'job' last_seen: '2026-10-15' --- # B2B Ecosystem Lead, Business Development at OpenAI - **Company:** [OpenAI](https://feeny.ai/companies/openai) - **Location:** San Francisco, CA - **Compensation:** $333k–$445k - **Employment:** full-time - **Work type:** hybrid - **Posted:** 2026-10-14 - **Last confirmed live:** 2026-10-15 - **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/openai/c717b98e-5394-4ad1-ae3f-e036717ad9b5 ## Job description 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 judgment, including the ability to assess economics, prioritize competing opportunities, and use performance data to guide decisions. - Ability to build relationships with partner practitioners and leaders, work effectively across technical and business teams, and move projects forward without formal 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, and to achieve our mission, we must encompass and value the many different perspectives, voices, and experiences that form the full spectrum of humanity. We are an equal opportunity employer, and we do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, age, veteran status, disability, genetic information, or other applicable legally protected characteristic. For additional information, please see [OpenAI’s Affirmative Action and Equal Employment Opportunity Policy Statement](https://cdn.openai.com/policies/eeo-policy-statement.pdf). Background checks for applicants will be administered in accordance with applicable law, and qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment consistent with those laws, including the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers, and the California Fair Chance Act, for US-based candidates. For unincorporated Los Angeles County workers: we reasonably believe that criminal history may have a direct, adverse and negative relationship with the following job duties, potentially resulting in the withdrawal of a conditional offer of employment: protect computer hardware entrusted to you from theft, loss or damage; return all computer hardware in your possession (including the data contained therein) upon termination of employment or end of assignment; and maintain the confidentiality of proprietary, confidential, and non-public information. In addition, job duties require access to secure and protected information technology systems and related data security obligations. To notify OpenAI that you believe this job posting is non-compliant, please submit a report through [this form](https://form.asana.com/?d=57018692298241&k=5MqR40fZd7jlxVUh5J-UeA). No response will be provided to inquiries unrelated to job posting compliance. We are committed to providing reasonable accommodations to applicants with disabilities, and requests can be made via this [link](https://form.asana.com/?k=bQ7w9h3iexRlicUdWRiwvg&d=57018692298241). [OpenAI Global Applicant Privacy Policy](https://cdn.openai.com/policies/global-employee-and-contractor-privacy-policy.pdf) 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. ## About OpenAI ## Company Overview - **One-liner**: OpenAI is an AI research and deployment company with a mission to ensure that artificial general intelligence (AGI) benefits all of humanity. - **Entity Type**: Private – structured as a nonprofit parent (OpenAI Foundation) governing a for-profit public benefit corporation (OpenAI Group). The company has confidentially submitted a draft S-1 registration statement to the SEC, signaling a potential future IPO. - **Headquarters**: San Francisco, California, USA - **Founded**: 2015 - **Founders**: Sam Altman, Greg Brockman, Ilya Sutskever, John Schulman, Wojciech Zaremba, and others ## Core Business - **Primary industry**: Artificial intelligence research and deployment - **Target customers**: B2B (enterprises via API and platform), B2C (ChatGPT users), and developers (API, open-source models) - **Mission**: To ensure that artificial general intelligence (AGI) – AI systems that are generally smarter than humans – benefits all of humanity. ## Products & Services - **[ChatGPT](https://openai.com/chatgpt)**: Conversational AI assistant available via web and mobile, used by consumers and integrated into enterprise workflows. - **[GPT-4 API](https://openai.com/product)**: Large language model accessed via API for developers to build AI-powered applications (text generation, summarization, code assistance, etc.). - **[DALL-E](https://openai.com/dall-e-3)**: Image generation model that creates images from natural language descriptions. - **[Whisper](https://openai.com/research/whisper)**: Open-source speech recognition system. - **[OpenAI Agents](https://openai.com/)**: Emerging product category focused on autonomous AI agents that can perform tasks on behalf of users (announced June 2026). ## Market Standing - **Valuation**: Not publicly disclosed in the provided sources. Widely reported in the press at ~$300 billion as of early 2026 (post-funding round), but this figure is not confirmed by OpenAI’s official materials. - **Key Metric**: Total funding exceeds $13 billion from Microsoft and other investors. The company has also confidentially filed a draft S-1 with the SEC (see [openai.com](https://openai.com/) – “Confidential submission of draft S-1”). - **Notable Investors/Partners**: Microsoft (strategic partner and largest investor), with additional participation from Thrive Capital, Sequoia Capital, Andreessen Horowitz, and others. - **Growth Signals**: Active hiring with 721 open roles posted; expansion into agent-based products; confidential IPO filing; continued deployment of frontier models. ## Competitive Advantages - **First-mover & brand recognition**: ChatGPT became the fastest-growing consumer app in history, establishing OpenAI as the household name in generative AI. - **Research leadership**: Consistently publishes cutting-edge research (GPT-4, DALL-E 3, Whisper, etc.) and attracts top AI talent. - **Compute & infrastructure**: Exclusive partnership with Microsoft provides massive cloud computing resources (Azure) for training and inference. - **Unique governance structure**: The nonprofit parent ensures mission alignment (AGI benefiting humanity) while the for-profit arm can raise capital and scale products. ## Strategic Focus - **Safe AGI development**: Continued emphasis on safety research, alignment, and responsible deployment (e.g., safety systems, model provenance). - **Enterprise expansion**: Growing ChatGPT Enterprise and API offerings for businesses. - **Agentic AI**: Building autonomous agents that can “transform work” (announced June 2026). - **IPO preparation**: Confidential S-1 filing indicates intent to go public, which will require increased financial transparency and governance maturity. ## Why Work Here - **Culture & values**: OpenAI’s stated values include “Humanity first,” “Act with humility,” “Feel the AGI,” and “Ship joy.” Operating principles emphasize agency, creativity, rapid iteration, and intense focus. - **Benefits**: Competitive health insurance, mental healthcare support, 24-week paid birth-parent leave (plus 20 weeks for other parents), generous PTO, annual learning & development stipend, daily meals (breakfast, lunch, dinner), and a domestic conference budget. - **Work environment**: Hybrid/office-based (San Francisco headquarters). The company offers a residency program for researchers and engineers transitioning into AI. - **Impact**: Employees work directly on frontier AI models that shape the industry and society. The mission-driven nature attracts talent passionate about AGI’s societal implications. ## Sources 1. [OpenAI About Page](https://openai.com/about/) 2. [OpenAI Careers Page](https://openai.com/careers/) 3. [OpenAI Job Search](https://openai.com/careers/search) 4. 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