OpenAI

Platform Product Partnerships Lead

OpenAI πŸ“ California, USA πŸ”€ Hybrid Posted Sep 1, 2026 via OpenAI careers
full-time πŸ“‚ Sales & Business Development πŸ”€ Hybrid 🏭 Technology

✨ Job Highlights

  • β˜…Pay: $266,000 to $370,000 a year
  • β˜…Hybrid: California or New York
  • β˜…Full-time role in sales & business development
  • β˜…Experience asked for: 10+ years
  • β˜…Apply directly on OpenAI's careers site
  • β˜…Posted September 1, 2026

Full Job Description

Platform Product Partnerships Lead job at OpenAI in California

OpenAI is hiring a Platform Product Partnerships Lead in California or New York. It is a hybrid full-time role, so plan on splitting your week between home and the office. Pay for this role is set at $266,000 to $370,000 a year, according to the posting.

The description below comes from OpenAI's own job posting.

About the Role

As a member of the Platform Partnerships team, you will lead some of the most important integrations connecting the world into OpenAI’s flagship products, including Codex and ChatGPT.

This role has enormous impact, as OpenAI users and their agents increasingly interact with third-party services. You will set partnership strategy, craft mutually beneficial commercial and technical agreements, and work closely with product and engineering teams to bring new platform capabilities to market. You will help decide what gets built, which partners to prioritize and how a new generation of AI-native services come to life.

This role sits at the intersection of product, engineering, partnerships, and ecosystem strategy. The right person is someone who can run deals end-to-end, navigate ambiguity, push product thinking when needed, and move fast with partners and internal teams.

In this role, you will

  • Lead full lifecycle partnerships, from identifying and prioritizing partners to negotiating terms, closing complex agreements, and driving partner success.

  • Work directly with Product and Engineering to shape how connectors, agents, and third-party workflows function inside ChatGPT and Codex.

  • Develop ecosystem relationships to drive deeper engagement across distribution, co-marketing, and product innovation.

  • Translate partner commercial needs, technical constraints, and market dynamics into program and product recommendations, prioritization calls, and go-to-market plans

  • Bring structure to ambiguous opportunities and help the team decide where to go deep, move fast, or say no.

  • Drive aggressive timelines by clearing blockers and aligning internal and external workstreams.

  • You might thrive in this role if you

  • 10+ years of experience in product partnerships, product management, or developer relations.

  • Demonstrated success structuring and negotiating complex commercial and technical deals, with strong negotiation skills with a focus on creative solutions.

  • Excellent product and technical judgement, and experience building ecosystems or integrations for emerging products.

  • Self-driven, relationship-oriented, and adept at operating in a fast-changing environment.

  • Exceptional communication, structured thinking, and program management skills.

  • Ability to thrive in fast-paced ambiguous environments.

  • Creativity, adaptability, and a willingness to challenge assumptions.

  • Strong ability to collaborate with product and engineering leaders and build trust with external partners.

  • 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 .

    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.

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    Questions about this job

    What is the salary for the Platform Product Partnerships Lead role at OpenAI?

    OpenAI advertises $266,000 to $370,000 a year for this role.

    Is the Platform Product Partnerships Lead position remote?

    It is hybrid. You would work partly from home and partly from the office in California or New York.

    What experience do I need for this Platform Product Partnerships Lead job?

    The posting mentions at least 10 years of relevant experience and skills such as Negotiation. Read the full description above for the complete list.

    How do I apply for the Platform Product Partnerships Lead job?

    Use the apply button on this page. It takes you to OpenAI's own application form, so your CV goes directly to their hiring team.

    When was this job posted?

    OpenAI published the role on September 1, 2026. We check the employer's job board every day and take this page down when the role closes, so if you can read it, the job was still listed at our last check.

    Source: OpenAI careers page (jobs.ashbyhq.com). Applications go straight to the employer. We check the listing daily and remove it once it closes.

    Required Skills

    Negotiation

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    🏒 Company OpenAI
    πŸ“ Location California, USA
    πŸ’Ό Job Type full-time
    🌐 Work Mode πŸ”€ Hybrid
    🏭 Industry Technology
    πŸ—“ Posted Date Sep 1, 2026
    πŸ”— Via OpenAI careers
    🎯 Experience 10+ years
    πŸ“… Deadline Dec 16, 2034

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