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OpenAI

Growth Programs Lead, Startups

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hybrid senior Full time $239K - $342K San Francisco

First indexed 25 Aug 2026

Description

Compensation

The base pay for this role ranges from $239K to $342K, with equity offered. The actual salary may vary based on factors such as market location, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience.

Benefits include:

  • Medical, dental, and vision insurance for you and your family, with employer contributions to Health Savings Accounts
  • Pre-tax accounts for Health FSA, Dependent Care FSA, and commuter expenses
  • 401(k) retirement plan with employer match
  • Paid parental leave (up to 24 weeks for birth parents and 20 weeks for non-birthing parents), plus paid medical and caregiver leave
  • Paid time off: flexible PTO for exempt employees and up to 15 days annually for non-exempt employees
  • 13+ paid company holidays, and multiple paid coordinated company office closures throughout the year
  • Mental health and wellness support
  • Employer-paid basic life and disability coverage
  • Annual learning and development stipend
  • Daily meals in our offices, and meal delivery credits as eligible
  • Relocation support for eligible employees

About the Team

The Startup Growth team builds systems, programs, and automation to enable OpenAI to win startups at scale. The goal is to make it faster and easier to turn high-potential growth ideas into repeatable, measurable GTM motions.

About the Role

As the GTM Growth Programs Lead, you will own the shared capabilities that enable Startup GTM to incubate, launch, measure, and scale growth programs. You will initially focus on credit and commercial programs, using this work to build reusable infrastructure for a broader portfolio of GTM motions.

Responsibilities

  • Build the GTM program platform for Startups: Develop shared infrastructure, tooling, and agentic systems that turn growth opportunities into scalable programs
  • Own credit and commercial programs: Drive credit/commercial strategy and evolution while turning capabilities into reusable building blocks
  • Create a repeatable path from idea to scaled motion: Turn growth objectives into targeted, operationalized, measurable GTM motions
  • Build leverage throughout the team: Enable teams to incubate and own programs independently
  • Develop shared measurement and experimentation frameworks: Establish common approaches to sizing, economics, attribution, experimentation, and optimization
  • Establish durable cross-functional ownership: Drive dependencies across teams and establish clear accountability

Requirements

  • Can turn a priority growth objective into a targeted, measurable GTM motion quickly
  • Experience with credit and commercial programs
  • Ability to build and grow high-impact commercial structures
  • Understanding of program economics, experimentation, attribution, and performance measurement

About OpenAI

OpenAI is committed to providing reasonable accommodations to applicants with disabilities.

This listing is enriched and indexed by YubHub. To apply, use the employer's original posting: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/openai/da5947ec-1048-45c6-9fc2-1290df804e16