OpenAI

Strategy & Operations Lead, B2B Marketing

OpenAI$302K — $335K *
Business Services
11 - 15 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 14+ years of experience in strategy, business operations, or marketing within tech environments.
  • Familiarity with B2B marketing and go-to-market strategies.
  • Strong analytical skills, particularly with financial documents and metrics.
  • Effective communicator, skilled at summarizing complex information for executives.
  • Proven ability to identify and address operational challenges independently.
  • Excellent cross-functional relationship-building skills, able to influence without authority.
  • High attention to detail in project execution.

Responsibilities

  • Own integrated resource planning for budget and hiring priorities.
  • Design and enhance B2B Marketing's operating system for efficiency.
  • Define metrics and reporting for tracking marketing progress.
  • Act as a surge capacity for launching new marketing initiatives.
  • Identify and address operational gaps to improve team effectiveness.

Benefits

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

As a Strategy & Operations Lead on the B2B Marketing team, you will help shape the operating system for one of OpenAI's fastest-moving and highest-priority marketing functions. You will serve as a trusted partner to B2B Marketing leadership, helping steer strategy, define operating priorities, manage budgets and headcount planning, and build the structures, processes, and communication mechanisms the team needs to scale.

This is a lead role for someone who can own ambiguous, high-impact scopes end to end: setting direction, building the plan, aligning stakeholders, driving execution, and shaping how operations works across the B2B Marketing team. You will work closely with Strategic Finance, Recruiting, Marketing leaders, and cross-functional partners to bring clarity to complex problems and keep leadership informed on progress, risks, and tradeoffs.

We're looking for someone who is analytical, operationally rigorous, deeply familiar with how marketing teams operate, and comfortable influencing senior stakeholders without formal authority.

You'll be responsible for:
  • Own integrated resource planning across budget, headcount, and hiring priorities, developing clear investment and tradeoff recommendations for B2B Marketing leadership.
  • Design and improve the operating system for B2B Marketing, including priority-setting, weekly business reviews, update intake, decision forums, project tracking, and executive communications.
  • Define the metrics, reporting cadences, and leadership narratives that show how B2B Marketing is progressing against business goals.
  • Serve as strategic surge capacity for new or high-priority B2B Marketing initiatives, stepping in to define the plan, stand up the operating model, and program-manage execution from 0 to 1.
  • Identify operational gaps across planning, resourcing, reporting, and execution, then design practical systems that improve clarity, accountability, and decision-making as the team scales.


We're looking for someone with:
  • 14+ years of experience in strategy, business operations, strategic finance, consulting, marketing operations, or a marketing role in a fast-moving technology environment.
  • Experience working on or closely with a marketing team, with an understanding of B2B marketing and GTM motions including campaigns, events, customer storytelling, launch planning, lifecycle and growth programs, sales partnership, and pipeline-oriented measurement.
  • Strong analytical skills and comfort working with budgets, forecasts, headcount plans, operating metrics, and executive-facing reporting.
  • Clear, crisp communication, especially when synthesizing complex or messy inputs for senior audiences.
  • Ability to independently identify the highest-leverage operational problems, define the scope, align stakeholders, and drive a path from ambiguous need to durable system.
  • Strong cross-functional instincts, with the ability to build trust quickly, make tradeoffs, and influence teams without relying on formal authority.
  • Very strong attention to detail


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.

Compensation Range: $302K - $335K USD

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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100 employees
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Founded
2015

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