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Program Manager, Business Marketing

OpenAI


Job Location:

San Francisco, CA - USA

Yearly Salary: USD 234000 - 260000
Posted: 29 September 2026 (2 days ago)
Application Deadline: 29 December 2026
Vacancies: 1 Vacancy

Job Summary

About the Team

OpenAIs mission is to ensure that general-purpose artificial intelligence benefits all of humanity.

The Business Marketing team contributes to our broader mission of ensuring responsible and widespread adoption of artificial intelligence by developing and executing strategies that drive awareness engagement and usage for OpenAIs products and platform amongst core business audiences.

The Strategy & Operations function supports Business Marketing with operating models and cadences; strategic planning; portfolio resource and investment management; measurement and organizational learning that empower our teams to move at pace with clarity and confidence.

About the Role

Were looking for a resourceful systems-minded program manager to help Business Marketing turn a constant flow of ideas requests and priorities into world-class performant marketing campaigns. Youll manage our marketing portfolio lead selected cross-functional projects and build AI workflows and systems that make it easier for marketers to get their work done.

Youll partner with marketing leaders to shape their programs establish clear ownership and make sure teams have the context and structure they need to move quickly.

This role combines an integrated marketing mindset with hands-on project management and a builders instinct. You should enjoy being the person everyone reaches out to making sense of ambiguity seeing how a small ask might become a much bigger thing (or seeing when a big ask is actually something quite small). This role makes everyones life a little easier: a better understanding of whats happening across the entire department high-touch support for our most intense projects and useful systems that take friction out of everyones day.

This is a hybrid role based on our San Francisco office three days a week.

In this role you will:

  • Lead selected cross-functional projects. Build the model by program managing some of our biggest most complex initiatives. Take projects from initial definition through delivery coordinating dependencies resolving blockers managing scope changes and keeping stakeholders aligned as priorities evolve. Use the learnings to inform the process.

  • Manage the ongoing marketing portfolio. Maintain a clear view of active and upcoming work. Use your deep knowledge of the portfolio (including team members responsibilities and availability) to push for single-threaded named leadership when there are multiple contributors.

  • Kick off new projects . Determine whether a request belongs within an existing campaign needs integrated marketing involvement warrants a standalone project or can be handled through self-service. Clarify the audience business objective scope and readiness of new requests. Turn incomplete requests into actionable briefs through quick conversations rather than cumbersome processes or forms. Find a path to yes we can for most requests and feel comfortable telling a stakeholder why not if thats truly the best answer.

  • Set projects up for effective collaboration across humans and AI. Create clarity by naming accountable owners clarifying who has decision authority codifying working teams and workspaces milestones and the right information structure. Be at the forefront of using OAI products to enable effective portfolio program and project management.

  • Partner closely with Creative Operations. Ensure Creative Operations has what they need to assign creative staffing estimate capacity scope agency agreements and create production timelines.

  • Make the operating model easier as the business becomes more complex. Use team feedback and delivery patterns to simplify processes strengthen self-service and reduce repetitive coordination. Build systems that remain useful as the team and volume of work grow.

You might thrive in this role if you have:

  • 7 years of experience in marketing program and project management integrated marketing management or marketing portfolio management across multiple teams and concurrent priorities.

  • A track record of personally leading cross-functional projects establishing ownership managing dependencies and driving work through to completion.

  • An integrated marketing mindset: you see beyond an individual deliverable to understand its audience purpose campaign context and relationship to other work.

  • Strong judgment in ambiguous situations including the ability to distinguish urgency from importance ask the right questions and make practical recommendations with incomplete information.

  • Experience designing intake processes project structures and portfolio systems that people adopt and prefer to use because they make their life easier.

  • Hands-on experience building AI-enabled tools automations or workflows with concrete examples of how they improved work. You can move from identifying a problem to testing and implementing a useful solution.

  • The ability to build trust with marketers creatives and operational partners including when you need to challenge an ask reset expectations or recommend a different path.

  • A consulting-like approach to problem-solving: curiosity structured thinking comfort with unfamiliar problems and a willingness to do the hands-on work.

  • A bias toward simplicity and sustainable execution. You create clarity and momentum without adding meetings process or maintenance that outweigh their value.

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.

For additional information please see OpenAIs Affirmative Action and Equal Employment Opportunity Policy Statement.

Background checks for applicants will be administered in accordance with applicable law and qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment consistent with those laws including the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers and the California Fair Chance Act for US-based candidates. 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 addition job duties require access to secure and protected information technology systems and related data security obligations.

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