Strategic Operations Lead, Marketing

About the Team

OpenAIs Marketing team helps translate complex technology research and product moments into work that can be understood by audiences around the world. The team brings together creative direction design writing production strategy marketing and regional partners to deliver campaigns launches films events brand systems social digital OOH experiential and emerging formats across global markets.

This role sits close to creative production Brand Marketing Resource Management agencies and cross-functional partners. It is designed for someone who can turn approved strategic direction into a clear program path and keep that path movingfrom goals and operating model through creative development production launch readiness and closeout.

The role will work closely with Resource Managers to anticipate resource needs maintain accurate allocations and identify gaps early enough to address them before they become delivery risks.

About the Role

As a Strategic Operations Lead Marketing you will help design and run the leadership operating model for OpenAIs Marketing organization. This is a senior role for someone who has built 0-1 operating systems in high-growth marketing environments and can move fluidly between strategy planning executive communication and hands-on execution.

Were looking for someone who can bring structure to ambiguity without adding unnecessary process: a strategic chief of staff who can stand up planning cycles QBRs headcount prioritization resourcing asks investment governance rhythms leadership cadences while partnering with strategy & operations managers on budget forecasting spend execution variance analysis and reporting.

This role is based in San Francisco CA. We use a hybrid work model with in-office collaboration Monday through Wednesday and offer relocation assistance to new employees.

In this role you will:

• Build and run the core Marketing planning system including annual and half-year planning QBRs roadmap inputs operating reviews and executive-ready decision forums.

• Own the leadership decision process for Marketings headcount PID and resourcing asks partnering with Finance Recruiting People finance-ops owners and functional leaders to make asks explicit track decisions and surface tradeoffs.

• Set the leadership-level budget governance rhythm and use the full Marketing budget tracker as a decision tool partnering with the finance-ops owner on forecasting spend execution variance analysis and reporting.

• Design and operate the Marketing leadership operating system including staff agendas follow-through internal communications decision logs and cross-functional alignment mechanisms.

• Lead strategic projects that help the Marketing organization scale from 0-1 including operating-model design role clarity launch operations planning architecture and executive communication.

• Create crisp written narratives recommendations and operating materials that help senior leaders make decisions quickly and stay aligned across fast-moving workstreams.

You might thrive in this role if you:

• Have 14 years of relevant experience across strategy and operations business operations Chief of Staff marketing operations or related leadership roles in a 0-1 or high-growth environments.

• Bring top-tier management consulting experience or equivalent strategic operating experience with strong structured problem solving and executive communication skills.

• Have deep experience with planning cycles QBRs budget governance headcount planning operating cadences agency/RFP workflows and cross-functional program leadership with clear judgment about when to own a system versus partner with specialist operators.

• Can translate ambiguous priorities into clear plans owners decisions and follow-through without creating unnecessary process.

• Are comfortable working with senior leaders Finance Recruiting People Communications Product Marketing Growth Creative Media and external agency partners.

• Write clearly and operate with high judgment especially when distilling complex inputs into concise updates decision memos and leadership communications.

• Have strong analytical fluency and can use data trackers and operating artifacts to reveal tradeoffs unblock decisions and improve execution quality.

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.

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