B2B Ecosystem Lead, Partner Growth

Job description

About the Team We are a small and fast-moving B2B partnerships team that shapes and executes OpenAI’s most important collaborations. We work across the B2B ecosystem, including software vendors, technology platforms, and services partners, to help them bring useful AI offerings to market and reach more business customers. Working closely with Sales, Product, and partner programs, we build channels and repeatable go-to-market approaches that expand customer choice and adoption of OpenAI’s models and products. About the Role As a B2B Ecosystem Partnerships Lead focused on Partner Growth, you will own the onboarding, activation, and growth of a partner portfolio across OpenAI’s expanding ecosystem programs, including marketplace and Sign in with ChatGPT. This is a hands-on individual contributor role centered on partner management, joint go-to-market execution, and commercial growth. Your portfolio may span ISVs, technology platforms,, and other B2B partners as opportunities evolve. You bring a generalist’s range across relationships, business analysis, deal execution, and operational problem solving. You will build repeatable ways to support a growing partner base and take on selected strategic partnerships. In this role, you will: Identify and recruit partners across B2B segments for ecosystem programs and joint go-to-market opportunities, prioritizing customer needs, product fit, commercial potential, and readiness to participate and grow. Own day-to-day relationships across your partner portfolio, tailoring engagement to partner needs and opportunity while using repeatable approaches to support a growing partner base. Develop practical business and account plans with partners and Sales, with clear use cases, target customers, owners, milestones, and adoption and commercial goals. Negotiate product and commercial agreements with Legal, Finance, and Product, and lead selected high-touch strategic opportunities in coordination with other partnership owners. Guide partners through program onboarding, technical evaluation, integration, and activation; coordinate enablement and resolve barriers to launch, sustained usage, and expansion. Execute co-selling, joint marketing, and marketplace opportunities with account teams; coordinate with cloud and other ecosystem partners where they help customers buy and deploy solutions. Run regular partner reviews, identify i…