About the Team
Business Operations guides some of our largest investment areas and solves mission critical business problems with a direct impact on research, product, and the success of OpenAI. This small, fast-moving team structures ambiguity, sets strategy, aligns stakeholders, drives operational execution, builds external partnerships, and ensures highly ambitious goals are achieved.
About the Role
Data is a key lever for OpenAI. We are committed to building a healthy ecosystem of mutually beneficial relationships with content and data partners. As the Business Operations Lead focusing on data, you will be responsible for shaping and executing data strategy in a given area, sourcing and building external data partnerships, often with high-profile organizations and senior executives, and running operations. This is a highly cross-functional role, working directly with research, engineering, product, go-to-market, legal, finance and others. This role requires a genuine empathy for and rapid understanding of our partners’ businesses and an ability to communicate how our products create value for them.
In this role, you will own:
Strategy & Analysis: Understand our research and product teams’ needs, conduct analyses, and shape the strategy for a given area
Alignment & Execution: Synthesize recommendations, align with leadership, set ambitious but achievable goals, and own end-to-end execution
Partnerships: Drive the entire partnership lifecycle, from sourcing key partners, to leading negotiations, and nurturing these partnerships after closing, continually fostering trust with high-profile partners and executives
Investment Modeling & Recommendations: Financially assess investments, build models, and make thoughtful recommendations
Influence business direction: Collaborate directly with research, product and leadership on key issues related to data and our partner ecosystem
You might thrive in this role if you have:
7+ years of experience across business operations, venture capital, private / growth equity, private credit, investment banking, consulting, strategic finance, corporate development, strategy & operations, and/or business development
Experience winning over business partners and building thriving relationships
Demonstrated track record of thoughtful investment decisions
Experience driving operational outcomes under ambitious deadlines
Exceptionally strong relationship building, business judgment, and communication skills
Understanding of OpenAI’s technology and how it creates value for partners
Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience
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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 do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, veteran status, disability or any other legally protected status.
For US Based Candidates: Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.
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