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# Partner Marketing Manager, Ads at OpenAI

- **Company:** [OpenAI](https://feeny.ai/companies/openai)
- **Location:** San Francisco, CA
- **Compensation:** $227k–$252k
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** hybrid
- **Posted:** 2026-09-02
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-11-05
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/openai/66fa2750-ca23-4a3e-8970-dfe7bac97d01

## Job description

## About the Team

OpenAI's Marketing team helps customers understand, adopt, and get value from OpenAI's products and platform. Within Ads Marketing, Partner Marketing is responsible for building the ecosystem that helps advertisers access, activate, measure, and grow on ChatGPT through the partners they already work with. Our team brings that ecosystem to life by meeting advertisers where they already work, while also helping them discover new platforms and capabilities that can strengthen their advertising strategy. We partner with technology, measurement, agency, and other strategic partners to make it easier for advertisers to access ChatGPT Ads, launch and optimize campaigns, measure performance, and grow their investment over time.

## About the Role

ChatGPT Ads is creating a new environment for how people discover products, evaluate options, and make decisions. As advertising in ChatGPT grows, our partner ecosystem will play a critical role in helping advertisers access, measure, and get more value from this new channel. We’re looking for an experienced individual to focus on ads partner marketing to help build and scale the partner marketing function for ChatGPT Ads. In this role, you will develop the strategy, programs, and go-to-market frameworks that activate our ecosystem of technology, measurement, and other strategic partners. You will work closely with partners ranging from global advertising platforms and measurement companies and emerging technology providers. Your goal will be to turn partnerships into meaningful business impact by helping partners bring advertisers onto ChatGPT Ads, accelerate adoption, increase investment, and demonstrate the value of advertising in a conversational environment. This is a highly cross-functional role at the intersection of partnerships, product marketing, sales, communications, and growth. You will help define how we bring partners to market, where we invest, and how we scale successful programs as the ecosystem grows. In this role, you will:

- Support our overall ecosystem strategy in identifying partners, programs, and investments that can drive advertiser adoption, revenue, and ecosystem growth.
- Develop differentiated go-to-market strategies across technology, measurement, and other strategic partner segments.
- Build and scale partner marketing frameworks that prioritize resources based on partner potential, advertiser impact, and business opportunity.
- Design and execute integrated co-marketing programs across launches, campaigns, events, content, webinars, customer stories, and other demand-generation channels.
- Partner with product and our partnerships teams to translate strategic relationships and product integrations into compelling advertiser-facing value propositions.
- Drive advertiser acquisition and activation through partners, including programs designed to onboard new advertisers, grow spend, and accelerate adoption of new capabilities.
- Create scalable partner enablement programs and marketing materials that help partner sales and customer teams confidently position and sell ChatGPT Ads.
- Develop joint messaging, positioning, launch narratives, and marketing assets in close partnership with Product Marketing, Communications, Product, Legal, and Brand.
- Identify and develop customer and partner stories that demonstrate how advertisers are using ChatGPT Ads and the impact of conversational advertising across the customer journey.
- Establish measurement frameworks for partner marketing, connecting programs to advertiser activation, pipeline, revenue, product adoption, and other business outcomes.
- Build repeatable processes for partner launches and co-marketing so the organization can support a rapidly expanding ecosystem without sacrificing quality or impact.
- Serve as a strategic marketing advisor to priority partners, helping them identify opportunities to bring ChatGPT Ads into their broader customer and go-to-market strategies.

You might thrive in this role if you:

- Have 8+ years experience in partner marketing, platform marketing, product marketing, ecosystem marketing, or a related role in advertising or technology.
- Understand the digital advertising ecosystem and how advertisers work across buying platforms, agencies, measurement providers, and marketing technology.
- Have experience building partner programs from the ground up and turning one-off partnerships into scalable go-to-market motions.
- Can move comfortably between strategy and execution, from defining an ecosystem framework to launching a campaign with a partner.
- Are highly cross-functional and know how to align teams with different incentives, priorities, and ways of working.
- Have strong positioning and storytelling instincts and can translate technical integrations into simple, compelling customer value.
- Have experience developing and executing external-facing programs, including events, webinars, partner activations, and other customer-facing initiatives.
- Use data to determine where to invest, which programs to scale, and whether marketing activity is translating into meaningful business outcomes.
- Are comfortable operating in an emerging category where the playbook is still being written.
- Have experience working with senior executives and external partners and can represent the business with credibility in high-visibility situations.
- Are excited by the opportunity to help define how advertising evolves as conversational AI becomes a more important part of the customer journey.

## 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. [OpenAI Homepage](https://openai.com/)

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