Product Marketing Lead, API Models & Research

About the Team

The Product Marketing team shapes how OpenAI brings its research, models, and products to market. We work across Research, Product, Engineering, Sales, Communications, and Marketing to translate technical advances into clear customer value, compelling market narratives, and go-to-market strategies that drive meaningful adoption.

You might thrive in this role if you:

• Have 12+ years of experience in product marketing across AI, developer platforms, enterprise technology, cloud, or other complex technical products.
• You love the craft of product marketing and storytelling, and bring the curiosity, conviction, and passion to thrive in a deeply immersive role.
• Have built and led product marketing teams or functions.
• Can understand sophisticated technical systems and explain them clearly without losing nuance.
• Have worked closely with research, engineering, or advanced product development teams.
• Have led major launches and sustained adoption strategies across a product portfolio.
• Bring strong judgment in positioning, technical storytelling, and executive communication.
• Understand how developers and enterprises evaluate APIs, model capabilities, security, and privacy.
• Can operate effectively across senior stakeholders and move between strategic leadership and hands-on execution.

Workplace & Location

This role is based in San Francisco, CA. We use a hybrid work model of 3 days in the office per week and offer relocation assistance to new employees. Occasional travel will be required.

About OpenAI

OpenAI 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.

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