OpenAI

Partnerships Staff - Cyber

OpenAI$130K — $160K *
Enterprise Technology
8 - 10 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 8+ years of experience in partnerships, business development, or ecosystem roles
  • Background in cybersecurity, enterprise software, cloud platforms, or developer technologies
  • Proven ability to manage external relationships and execute cross-functional projects
  • Technical curiosity with knowledge of APIs, AI models, and security architecture
  • Strong communication skills and experience in building stakeholder trust
  • Demonstrated operational discipline and urgency in multi-stream environments
  • Comfortable managing a diverse portfolio in a fast-evolving market

Responsibilities

  • Source, close, and manage cybersecurity technology partner portfolio
  • Identify high-value use cases in security operations and compliance
  • Develop comprehensive partner plans for integration and growth
  • Support partnership structuring across technical and legal workstreams
  • Facilitate partners from concept to production launch
  • Conduct regular partner reviews and track commitments
  • Measure partner performance and customer outcomes

Benefits

  • Opportunity to impact the future of artificial intelligence
  • Collaborative and innovative work environment
  • Support for professional development and career growth
  • Access to cutting-edge technologies and resources
  • Engagement in meaningful global challenges through technology
Full Job Description
About the Role

You are an experienced partnerships operator who combines business development, partner management, technical curiosity, and strong execution. You can manage external relationships while driving detailed cross-functional work across product, engineering, technical success, sales, marketing, legal, security, and operations. You move with urgency, follow through consistently, and are comfortable managing a portfolio in a fast-changing market.

In this role, you will:
  • Source, close and manage a portfolio of cybersecurity technology partners.
  • Identify high-value use cases across security operations, identity, cloud security, application security, threat intelligence, governance, risk, and compliance.
  • Develop partner plans covering integration, launch, enablement, co-marketing, co-sell, and growth.
  • Support partnership structuring and coordinate product, technical, commercial, legal, and security workstreams.
  • Help partners move from concept and technical validation to production launch and scaled customer adoption.
  • Run regular partner reviews, track commitments, resolve blockers, and identify expansion opportunities.
  • Coordinate closely with product, engineering, technical success, sales, marketing, legal, security, and operations.
  • Measure partner pipeline, launches, model adoption, consumption, customer outcomes, and partner health.

You might thrive in this role if you have:
  • 8+ years of experience in partnerships, business development, alliances, partner success, or ecosystem roles.
  • Experience in cybersecurity, enterprise software, cloud platforms, or developer technologies.
  • Proven ability to manage external relationships while independently driving detailed cross-functional execution.
  • Technical curiosity and the ability to discuss APIs, AI models, integrations, security architecture, and enterprise requirements.
  • Clear, effective communication and a track record of building trust with partner and internal stakeholders.
  • Strong operating discipline, urgency, and consistent follow-through across multiple workstreams.
  • Comfort managing a portfolio and making sound tradeoffs in a fast-changing market.


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

OpenAI is an artificial intelligence research laboratory consisting of the for-profit corporation OpenAI LP and its parent company, the non-profit OpenAI Inc. The company was founded in 2015 by a group of technology leaders, including Elon Musk, Sam Altman, Greg Brockman, Ilya Sutskever, and John Schulman. OpenAI's mission is to develop and promote friendly AI for the betterment of humanity. The company has developed a number of cutting-edge AI technologies, including GPT-3, a language processing system that can generate human-like text. OpenAI has received funding from a number of high-profile investors, including LinkedIn co-founder Reid Hoffman and venture capitalist Peter Thiel.
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