Program Manager, Local Community Impact

Job description

About the team Our Community team builds direct relationships with people who use OpenAI’s technology, helps others learn from their experiences, and brings their insights back to product and research teams. Our programs connect communities with trusted partners who help organizations adopt AI effectively. About the role We’re hiring a Program Manager to build and run our partner network. You will turn an early program into a reliable operation: recruit and onboard partners, coordinate agreements and payments, manage external service providers, support local events and marketing, review service quality, and improve the program as we learn. This partner network will be on the ground in communities helping people–from small businesses, non-profits, and community organizations–experience concrete benefits from our technology. They will set up useful workflows, learn OpenAI tools and become more confident, independent users. You should be as comfortable helping a partner resolve an onboarding issue as you are designing the systems that prevent it from happening again. You will work with local operators and internal teams to make sure commitments are clear, work gets done, and the people we serve receive useful, high-quality support. What you will do Build the partner operating model, from sourcing and selection of partners through onboarding, ongoing support, renewal and exit. Establish clear expectations, owners, timelines and escalation paths. Create a scalable operating model that supports program growth and evolving partner needs. Run partner onboarding with Legal, Finance and Procurement: track agreements, required information, vendor setup, readiness and start dates so partners can begin work and receive payments through approved processes. Manage partner payments, reporting and related operational processes. Plan and support local workshops, deployments and events with partners. Coordinate audiences, venues, budgets, materials, staffing and follow-up while preserving local ownership. Coordinate program marketing and communications with Community, Marketing and content partners. Develop clear partner guidance, route brand and messaging approvals, and help useful stories and practices reach the right audiences. Build trusted relationships with local operators and the organizations they serve. Coach partners, answer questions, address service-quality concer…