Partner Manager, OpenAI for Government

We are seeking a Partner Manager to join OpenAI for Government's Partnerships team to help lead and scale OpenAI's most important partner relationships. This role sits at the center of partner management, cross-functional execution, and internal governance. You will help shape how OpenAI works with major platform, cloud, systems integration, and go-to-market partners to unlock durable commercial outcomes, strengthen delivery readiness, and improve coordination across internal and external teams.

In this role, you'll:

• Own day-to-day management of a portfolio of key strategic partners, including Amazon Web Services (AWS) and other high-priority AI ecosystem relationships.
• Serve as a central point of coordination for joint planning, governance, escalation management, and cross-functional execution.
• Build and run partner operating cadences across leadership reviews, working teams, business development, technical alignment, and delivery stakeholders.
• Help drive commercial outcomes by supporting co-sell motions, opportunity coordination, and execution against shared objectives.
• Track partnership performance, milestones, dependencies, and risks across multiple workstreams and internal teams.
• Coordinate internal resources across Go-to-Market, partnerships, product, legal, security, communications, policy, finance, and operations to support partner success.
• Support implementation and operationalization of partnership agreements, statements of work, enablement plans, and governance structures.
• Identify and resolve blockers across joint initiatives, including issues related to prioritization, delivery readiness, technical engagement, or executive alignment.
• Help define the model for how OpenAI engages with partners such as cloud providers, strategic platforms, and other major partners over time.
• Develop clear internal reporting on partner health, strategic priorities, and progress against business goals.
• Drive consistency in how OpenAI manages partner communications, commitments, and cross-functional follow-through.
• Contribute to long-term expansion strategies for strategic relationships, including identifying new areas for product, Go-to-Market, or delivery collaboration.