Vc Partnerships

About the team
OpenAI’s mission is to build safe artificial general intelligence (AGI) which benefits all of humanity. This long-term undertaking brings the world’s best scientists, engineers, and business professionals into one lab together to accomplish this.
In pursuit of this mission, our Go To Market (GTM) team is responsible for helping customers learn how to leverage and deploy our highly capable AI products across their business. The team is made of Sales, Solutions, Support, Marketing, and Partnership professionals that work together to create valuable solutions that will help bring AI to as many users as possible.
About the role
OpenAI is seeking a highly motivated and experienced VC Partnerships Manager to join our Startups Go To Market team. You will play a critical role in managing relationships with top venture capital funds and startup accelerators, with the goal of providing exceptional support to the portfolio companies of these funds.
This role is a mixture of technical understanding, vision, partnership, and strategy. You’ll be responsible for forming and managing partnerships with top venture investors, accelerators, and other partners in the startup ecosystem, as well as working across the OpenAI organization to help startups accelerate their progress and be successful using our models. You’ll work cross-functionality with product, research, engineering, marketing, support, and solutions architecture to help customers get the most out of our models.
**In this role, you'll**:
Manage and develop a set of partner-level relationships with top venture capital funds, startup accelerator programs, and other external partners in the startup ecosystem
Develop strategies to drive adoption of OpenAI’s models among thousands of startups and ensure companies have the resources they need to build quickly and effectively using OpenAI’s models
**Identify opportunities for 1**:many engagements and events for founders, and execute in collaboration with VC firm and internal teams
Provide technical guidance to startups in 1:1 engagements, in partnership with internal technical teams
Represent OpenAI at startup ecosystem events and speaking engagements
Analyze key metrics within startup portfolios and create reports and provide insights to internal and external stakeholders
Contribute to the development of programs and strategic initiatives focused on startup customers
Serve as an advocate for improving the startup experience building with OpenAI, synthesizing product feedback from insights captured from our work with startups
Closely monitor the industry landscape and startup landscape to contribute to product roadmap and other corporate strategies
Collaborate with solutions, marketing, communications, business operations, people operations, finance, product management, and engineering
Support the recruitment and onboarding of other teammates
Support the development of company culture
**We're seeking someone with experience including**:
Passion for the startup ecosystem and supporting the growth of fast-growing companies
Experience as a founder of a venture-backed startup (preferably a technical founder), a venture capital investor, or early employee at a fast-growing startup
Technical understanding of AI technologies and AI product landscape
10+ years experience managing high-value external relationships (e.g., customers, partners, investors, Board of Directors) and working directly with founders and C-level executives
Communicating technical concepts to customers and internal stakeholders
Leading high-visibility customer engagements (e.g., conferences, 1:many events, product launches, etc.)
Gathering, distilling, and processing complex market (industry, competitor, customer, prospect) intelligence
Public speaking ability
**You might thrive in this role if you**:
Are customer-centric.
You are motivated to deeply understand your customer’s priorities and help them achieve their vision for using our models to improve their products and services. You build strong relationships with executives and professionals across functions and serve as a trusted advisor.
Have a passion or deep curiosity in artificial intelligence.
You embrace the opportunity to help deploy our technology in a way that benefits humanity. You’re excited to educate our customers on AI and how to plan for the future.
Are a builder.
You are excited to impact how our company operates and scales. Your passion is building strong systems and processes from the ground up and executing them with precision.
Are excited by new challenges.
You don’t have the answers to every question up front, but the process of solving them invigorates you. Bespoke issues requiring multidimensional knowledge excite you. You’re willing to experiment with new solutions.
Are a strategist.
You deeply understand go to market best practices and raise the bar for our organization. You think and plan forward on the order of years and bring internal and external stakeholders