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About The TeamOpenAI's Go-To-Market (GTM) team partners with customers to deploy frontier AI systems into production. We work with startups, scale-ups, and global companies across industries to build new capabilities with our models. We turn our models and products into durable solutions that solve complex real-world problems.

About The TeamOpenAI's Go-To-Market (GTM) team partners with customers to deploy frontier AI systems into production. We work with startups, scale-ups, and global companies across industries to build new capabilities with our models. We turn our models and products into durable solutions that solve complex real-world problems.About The RoleSpecial Projects is where we take on work that moves OpenAI's business forward but doesn't come with instructions. Some projects are strategic and externally visible. Others are hands-on and operational. Together, they create the foundation for how our GTM system scales.You'll own projects end to end with real autonomy and visibility to senior leaders. One month, you might launch a new startup program or accelerate technical recruiting. Next, you might design and operate a growth initiative that becomes a repeatable motion. This is varied, hands-on work for someone who learns quickly, moves initiatives to the finish line, and builds lightweight, flexible systems.This role is based in San Francisco. We use a hybrid work model of 3 days in the office per week and offer relocation assistance to new employees.In This Role, You Will

• Own critical projects from first question to measurable result, driving execution with clear workstreams and follow-through
• Build and run programs that create growth and operational leverage
• Bring clarity to ambiguous, high-leverage work and turn it into actionable plans
• Design systems and playbooks that compound impact beyond a single project

You'll Thrive In This Role If You

• Have 2-4 years in product or similar roles that required independent judgment and end-to-end ownership
• Take initiative, move projects forward, and finish what you start without drift
• Learn quickly, switch contexts fluidly, and thrive on solving new problems
• Know when to bring in others for speed or judgment and never get stuck alone
• Communicate simply and clearly, even when the work is complex

About OpenAIOpenAI 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.Qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment in accordance with applicable law, including the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers, and the California Fair Chance Act. 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.To notify OpenAI that you believe this job posting is non-compliant, please submit a report through this form. No response will be provided to inquiries unrelated to job posting compliance.We are committed to providing reasonable accommodations to applicants with disabilities, and requests can be made via this link.OpenAI Global Applicant Privacy PolicyAt OpenAI, we believe artificial intelligence has the potential to help people solve immense global challenges, and we want the upside of AI to be widely shared. Join us in shaping the future of technology.Compensation Range: $160K

Seniority level

• Seniority levelMid-Senior level

Employment type

• Employment typeFull-time

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• IndustriesResearch Services

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