About OpenAI

The Industrial Compute team is responsible for building and scaling the infrastructure foundation that powers OpenAI’s research and products. The team works across compute strategy, infrastructure planning, hardware partnerships, and capacity management to ensure OpenAI can meet rapidly growing training and inference demands with resilient, efficient, and future-looking infrastructure systems.

Excerpted from one of OpenAI's open partner manager postings.

Compensation Context

This company's median disclosed compensation for manager partner roles is $282K. The national median for manager partner manager roles in our dataset is $266K, meaning OpenAI posts roughly 6 percent above the national median for this seniority.

For the full seniority-by-seniority comparison, see our state of partner manager compensation analysis.

Seniority Mix

Open partner roles at OpenAI span the mid, senior, director, manager and head bands (mid (6), senior (4), director (2), manager (8), head (1)). The seniority breakdown shapes whether the company is building a partner org (more director-and-above hiring) or staffing it out (more mid-level hiring).

Partner Program Signals

Structural signals extracted from this company's open partner job descriptions:

  • Build Team: Building out a partner team from scratch or scaling an existing one. Expect higher operational ownership.
  • Enterprise: Enterprise segment focus, typical deal size in the $100K+ range.
  • Apac: APAC regional focus.
  • Player Coach: Player-coach role: individual contribution plus team management.
  • Equity: Equity compensation is part of the package.

Tool Stack Mentioned in Postings

Named tools and platforms that appear in this company's partner manager job descriptions, weighted by mention count.

Openai Api (20)Golang (7)Aws (2)Python (2)Openai (1)Jira (1)Sql (1)Javascript (1)Rust (1)

Where They Hire

Open partner postings appear in the following locations:

  • San Francisco (14)
  • Washington, DC (2)
  • San Francisco, CA, US (1)
  • San Francisco; Seattle; Washington, DC; New York City (1)
  • San Francisco; New York City (1)
  • Remote - US (1)
  • Remote - US; New York City (1)

Open Partner Manager Roles at OpenAI

Title Location Salary Range Seniority
AI Deployment Engineer- ChatGPT Ecosystem Remote - US; New York City $200K - $345K Mid
AI Deployment Manager - Core Ecosystem, EDU San Francisco; New York City $162K - $230K manager
Account Director, Federal Partnerships Washington, DC $178K - $301K Director
Commercial Compute & Ecosystem Strategy San Francisco $347K - $405K Mid
Director of Finance, Strategic Partnerships San Francisco $293K - $325K Director
Full Stack Software Engineer, ChatGPT Partnerships San Francisco $185K - $385K Mid
Full-Stack Engineer, ChatGPT Ecosystem (Apps Platform & SDK) San Francisco $185K - $490K Mid
GTM Partnerships Enablement Lead San Francisco $270K - $300K Senior
Head of Growth Partnerships San Francisco; Seattle; Washington, DC; New York City $370K - $445K head
Infrastructure Partnership Delivery Lead , Stargate Remote - US $230K - $335K Senior
Partner Director, AWS SI Partnership San Francisco, CA, US $266K - $380K Mid
Partner Manager - Search, Commerce San Francisco $266K - $295K manager
Partner Manager, Cloud Service Provider Partnerships San Francisco $333K - $370K manager
Partner Manager, Growth (Mandarin Speaking) San Francisco $266K - $295K manager
Partner Manager, OpenAI for Government Washington, DC $239K - $295K manager
Partnerships Deal Lead - Search, Commerce San Francisco $266K - $295K Senior
Platform Product Partnerships Lead San Francisco $266K - $295K Senior
Product Manager, ChatGPT and Codex App Ecosystem San Francisco $293K - $325K manager
Program Manager, Partner Operations San Francisco $162K - $240K manager
Software Engineer, Codex Ecosystem & Enterprise San Francisco $230K - $385K Mid
Technical Program Manager, Partnership Site Deployment - Stargate San Francisco $125K - $228K manager

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