Partnerships Deal Lead Search, Commerce

About the team
We are a small and fast-moving partnerships team that shapes and executes across high-impact collaborations and product partnerships. Your mission in this role is to identify structure and close strategic partnerships spanning products within search and commerce. You will help define where partnerships can create outsized product and business value shape the right deal structures lead cross-functional workstreams and advance OpenAIs mission by helping programmatically scale this work.

About the role
We are seeking a skilled generalist who can rapidly context switch but have a background working closely with product leaders and expertise in strategic deal-making. Youre able to drive work at high velocity and can motivate external and internal stakeholders including product engineering finance legal and operations. You operate with independence and focus finding creative solutions to unlock growth get partnerships signed and turn agreements into durable outcomes.

In this role you will:

• Drive Search and Commerce deals: Identify prioritize and advance partnership opportunities across distribution content commerce and data partners working closely with product engineering research sales finance legal and marketing.

• Lead complex commercial structures: Structure and negotiate partnership agreements spanning product integrations distribution content access commerce enablement and customized commercial frameworks managing the full lifecycle from sourcing and diligence through signing.

• Drive end-to-end deal execution: Own partner coordination internal approvals open items and decision-making workstreams to move partnerships efficiently from thesis through close and launch.

• Shape joint product and go-to-market strategy: Collaborate closely with internal stakeholders to define scope align incentives navigate tradeoffs and translate partnership ideas into executable launches.

• Operate as a cross-functional driver: Coordinate internal teams and external partners to launch priority partnerships end-to-end unblock dependencies and ensure strong execution post-signature.

• Track and communicate impact: Define success metrics evaluate tradeoffs and clearly communicate progress risks and expansion opportunities to internal stakeholders.

• Build senior partner relationships: Serve as a primary point of contact for partner counterparts build trust with decision-makers and create momentum through ambiguity and complex negotiations.

You might thrive in this role if you:

• 6 years of experience in business development product partnerships corporate development consulting investment banking or product within the technology industry.

• Strong experience structuring and negotiating complex deals that span product integrations distribution partnerships commercial frameworks and long-term expansion paths.

• Strong cross-functional operator with experience working closely with product engineering legal finance and sales teams to execute complex initiatives.

• Experience working on or alongside search commerce marketplace content or large-scale consumer platforms with a strong understanding of ecosystem user and monetization dynamics.

• Skilled relationship builder with strong strategic judgment and clear effective communication across senior internal and partner organizations.

• Self-directed and adaptable comfortable operating in fast-moving environments with evolving priorities and partial ambiguity.

• Past experience working at high growth companies preferred.

About OpenAI

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