About this role
ABOUT THE TEAM
OpenAI’s GTM Partnerships team builds a strategic, global partner ecosystem that accelerates customer success, enables enterprise AI adoption, and drives durable growth in support of OpenAI’s mission.
Cloud partners are central to how customers discover, purchase, deploy, and scale OpenAI solutions. We work across cloud providers and their field, product, marketplace, technical, and partner organizations to reduce friction for customers and create repeatable paths from initial interest to production impact.
The team collaborates closely with Sales, Technical Success, Product, Engineering, Finance, Legal, Security, Marketing, Operations, and Customer Success to turn strategic cloud relationships into measurable customer and commercial outcomes.
ABOUT THE ROLE
We are hiring a Partner Director, GTM Cloud Partnerships to shape and execute OpenAI’s go-to-market strategy with strategic cloud partners.
You will own senior relationships across a portfolio of cloud providers and develop joint business plans that expand customer access to OpenAI’s products, generate partner-sourced opportunities, and accelerate enterprise adoption. You will translate company-level partnerships into practical field motions spanning account planning, co-selling, cloud marketplaces, customer procurement, technical enablement, solution development, and executive engagement.
This is a highly strategic and hands-on role. Success requires executive presence, strong commercial judgment, cloud ecosystem expertise, and the operating discipline to coordinate complex initiatives across multiple partners, regions, and internal teams. The ideal candidate can move fluidly between long-term strategy and the detailed execution required to deliver measurable results.
This role is based in San Francisco. We use a hybrid work model of three days in the office per week.
IN THIS ROLE, YOU WILL:
- Own the strategic and commercial relationships with a top global cloud partner, establishing strong alignment with their executive, sales, product, marketplace, technical, and partner organizations.
- Develop and execute joint business plans that increase customer adoption, partner-sourced pipeline, marketplace transactions, and revenue.
- Translate strategic agreements into repeatable go-to-market programs, clear field engagement models, and measurable operating priorities.
- Build scalable co-sell motions with OpenAI and partner sales teams, including account mapping, joint account planning, opportunity identification, executive engagement, and deal progression.
- Create pathways that allow customers to purchase and deploy OpenAI solutions through their existing cloud relationships, commitments, procurement processes, and governance frameworks.
- Work with cloud partners and internal teams to develop joint customer propositions, sales plays, reference architectures, technical patterns, and industry-specific solutions.
- Establish operating cadences for prio