OpenAI

Senior Marketing Strategist, Paid & New Demand Channels

OpenAI$130K — $180K *
Business Services
8 - 10 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 10+ years of experience in B2B performance marketing, paid acquisition, demand generation, or growth, particularly with enterprise audiences.
  • Expertise in B2B audience strategy, paid search, paid social, and managing content syndication and partnerships.
  • Proven ability to manage significant budgets to enhance ROI, CAC efficiency, and qualified pipeline outcomes.
  • Strong quantitative skills in forecasting, experimentation, attribution, and funnel analysis.
  • Experience developing B2B strategy while collaborating with Performance Marketing teams to execute effectively.
  • Exceptional communication skills for influencing cross-functional teams and stakeholders.
  • Ability to navigate ambiguity and make data-driven decisions.

Responsibilities

  • Own the B2B paid and emerging-channel demand strategy across various mediums.
  • Translate pipeline goals into targeted audience and channel strategies.
  • Collaborate with Performance Marketing on audience, campaign, and measurement strategies.
  • Build and manage the strategy for content syndication and third-party demand partnerships.
  • Design full-funnel tests linking marketing efforts to revenue outcomes.
  • Make channel-mix and budget recommendations using performance data.
  • Identify and validate new demand channels through structured pilot tests.
  • Develop performance narratives for leadership on campaign effectiveness.

Benefits

  • Hybrid work model with 3 days in-office per week.
  • Relocation assistance for new employees.
  • Opportunities for occasional travel.
Full Job Description
About the Role

Within B2B Marketing, Demand Generation builds the integrated, full-funnel engine that connects audience insights, content, field and digital experiences, paid media, lifecycle, and sales follow-through to qualified pipeline. We partner closely with Sales, Partnerships, Product Marketing, Communications, Creative, Web, RevOps, Analytics, and regional teams to create a cohesive customer experience and scale what works.

We're looking for a Senior Marketing Strategist to lead paid and emerging demand-channel strategy for OpenAI's B2B business. You'll own the B2B audience, channel, offer, partner, and measurement strategy, translating pipeline goals into clear briefs and investment recommendations. You'll partner closely with Performance Marketing, which owns hands-on media execution, while informing audience strategy, campaign priorities, experimentation, and downstream performance decisions. You'll also build our approach to content syndication and third-party demand media partnerships.
In this role, you will:
  • Owning the B2B paid and emerging-channel demand strategy across paid search, paid social, display and retargeting, content syndication, third-party demand media partnerships, sponsorships, review platforms, and selected emerging channels.
  • Translating pipeline goals into audience and channel strategies, including ICP and segment priorities, buying groups, intent signals, channel roles, forecast assumptions, budget recommendations, campaign architecture, and a rolling experimentation roadmap.
  • Partnering closely with Performance Marketing to define B2B audience, campaign, offer, creative, landing-page, conversion, and measurement requirements, while Performance Marketing owns media activation, platform operations, optimization, and day-to-day execution.
  • Building the strategy and partner portfolio for content syndication and third-party demand media, including partner selection, audience and content fit, lead-validation standards, commercial terms, follow-up paths, and pipeline measurement.
  • Designing full-funnel tests with Performance Marketing, RevOps, and Analytics that connect media exposure and engagement to qualified leads, meetings, opportunities, pipeline, and revenue-not platform metrics alone.
  • Owning B2B channel-mix and budget recommendations in partnership with Finance, Performance Marketing, and Marketing leadership, using downstream performance to determine where investment should shift.
  • Identifying and validating new demand channels through structured pilots with clear hypotheses, guardrails, success thresholds, and scale-or-stop decisions.
  • Developing clear performance narratives and recommendations for leaders and cross-functional partners, including what's working, what isn't, and what should change next.
You might thrive in this role if you:
  • 10+ years of experience across B2B performance marketing, paid acquisition, demand generation, or growth, ideally supporting enterprise and multi-segment audiences.
  • Deep expertise in B2B audience strategy, paid search, and paid social, with practical experience across content syndication, third-party demand media partnerships, audience platforms, conversion tracking, and vendor management.
  • A track record of managing meaningful budgets and improving qualified pipeline, ROI, CAC efficiency, conversion, or revenue outcomes.
  • Strong quantitative judgment across forecasting, experimentation, incrementality, attribution, funnel analysis, and budget optimization.
  • The ability to set B2B strategy and provide clear execution direction while partnering effectively with a Performance Marketing team that owns channel activation, optimization, and day-to-day media operations.
  • Excellent communication and influence across Finance, Sales, RevOps, Analytics, Creative, Product Marketing, Web, and executive stakeholders.
  • Comfort operating in ambiguity, learning quickly, and making disciplined decisions when data is incomplete.
  • Genuine curiosity about emerging AI-native marketing workflows and a commitment to responsible experimentation and rigorous quality control.
Workplace & Location

This role is based in San Francisco, CA. We use a hybrid work model of 3 days in the office per week and offer relocation assistance to new employees. Occasional travel will be required.

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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2015

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