Partner Director, GTM Cloud Partnerships

ABOUT THE TEAM

OpenAI’s GTM Partnerships team builds a strategic, global partner ecosystem that accelerates customer success, enables enterprise AI adoption, and drives durable growth in support of OpenAI’s mission.

Cloud partners are central to how customers discover, purchase, deploy, and scale OpenAI solutions. We work across cloud providers and their field, product, marketplace, technical, and partner organizations to reduce friction for customers and create repeatable paths from initial interest to production impact.

The team collaborates closely with Sales, Technical Success, Product, Engineering, Finance, Legal, Security, Marketing, Operations, and Customer Success to turn strategic cloud relationships into measurable customer and commercial outcomes.

ABOUT THE ROLE

We are hiring a Partner Director, GTM Cloud Partnerships to shape and execute OpenAI’s go-to-market strategy with strategic cloud partners.

You will own senior relationships across a portfolio of cloud providers and develop joint business plans that expand customer access to OpenAI’s products, generate partner-sourced opportunities, and accelerate enterprise adoption. You will translate company-level partnerships into practical field motions spanning account planning, co-selling, cloud marketplaces, customer procurement, technical enablement, solution development, and executive engagement.

This is a highly strategic and hands-on role. Success requires executive presence, strong commercial judgment, cloud ecosystem expertise, and the operating discipline to coordinate complex initiatives across multiple partners, regions, and internal teams. The ideal candidate can move fluidly between long-term strategy and the detailed execution required to deliver measurable results.

This role is based in San Francisco, Seattle, or New York. We use a hybrid work model of three days in the office per week.

RESPONSIBILITIES

• Own the commercial engagement with a top global cloud partner in specific industry and customer segments, establishing strong alignment with their executive, sales, product, marketplace, technical, and partner organizations.

• Build and run the partnership governance model for assigned customer segments, including pipeline reviews, forecasting, executive business reviews, milestone tracking, performance reporting, and escalation management.

• Establish operating cadences for priority partnerships, including executive business reviews, pipeline inspections, forecasting, milestone tracking, performance reporting, and escalation management.

• Identify, qualify, and accelerate partner-sourced and partner-influenced opportunities, working with OpenAI sellers to progress shared pursuits toward customer wins.

• Develop and drive joint sales plays with cloud provider field teams and OpenAI Sales, including account mapping, joint account planning, opportunity identification, executive engagement, and deal progression.

• Partner with Sales and Technical Success to identify, shape, and accelerate strategic enterprise opportunities involving cloud infrastructure, marketplaces, and AI transformation initiatives.

• Collaborate with Partner Marketing on launches, campaigns, customer stories, field communications, and market-facing events.

• Drive partner enablement across OpenAI products, use cases, technical capabilities, customer qualification, security, provisioning, and deployment best practices.

• Represent OpenAI in executive meetings, customer engagements, strategic planning sessions, and industry events, requiring regular travel in North America.

• Gather structured feedback from cloud partners and customers and translate it into recommendations for OpenAI’s product, commercial, and go-to-market teams.

REQUIREMENTS

• 10+ years of experience in cloud partnerships, strategic alliances, ecosystem sales, business development, or enterprise sales within cloud, SaaS, AI, or platform businesses.

• Significant experience developing go-to-market partnerships with major cloud providers and navigating their sales, product, marketplace, technical, and partner organizations.

• A demonstrated track record of producing measurable pipeline, revenue, customer adoption, or marketplace outcomes through strategic partnerships.

• Strong familiarity with cloud marketplaces, co-sell programs, committed-spend models, partner attribution, and cloud-based enterprise procurement.

• Experience supporting complex enterprise opportunities involving AI transformation, cloud modernization, data platforms, or large-scale technical deployments.

• The ability to build trusted relationships with senior executives while remaining close to the operational details that determine whether a partnership succeeds.

• Technical fluency sufficient to engage credibly with cloud architects, product leaders, engineering teams, and technical decision-makers.

• The ability to influence without formal authority, manage escalations constructively, and create urgency across internal and external teams.

• Experience operating in an early-stage or high-growth environment where strategies, processes, and playbooks are still being built.

• Excellent written, verbal, negotiation, and executive-presentation skills.