# Strategy and Operations Lead, Creative Partnerships

**Company**: OpenAI
**Location**: San Francisco, California
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $333K - $370K
**Category**: Operations
**Industry**: Technology
**Wikidata**: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q124605186

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## Description

The Creative Partnerships function builds trusted relationships with influential people, brands and institutions across entertainment, sports, fashion, music, media, publishing, and the creator economy.

We are looking for a highly strategic, analytical, and collaborative Strategy and Operations Lead to partner with the Creative Partnerships leadership team.

In this role, you will:

- Serve as a strategic and operational partner to the Creative Partnerships leadership team, helping translate priorities into clear plans, decisions, and follow-through.

- Design and run the team’s core operating rhythms, including planning cycles, business reviews, leadership meetings, decision forums, offsites, and cross-functional communications.

- Maintain a clear and trusted view of the team’s active and upcoming work, organizational commitments, dependencies, capacity, and risks.

- Help leadership prioritize opportunities against Creative Partnerships’ goals, evaluate competing requests, and determine where to invest, reduce, defer, or redirect resources.

- Lead annual and half-year planning, goal setting, roadmap development, and progress reviews, connecting strategic priorities to the people, budget, and operating support required to deliver them.

- Own the leadership process for headcount, organizational planning, and resource requests.

- Partner with Resource Management and Production to anticipate staffing and capacity needs, evaluate internal and external options, and identify delivery risks early.

- Establish the team’s partnership with Finance and program owners to maintain visibility into allocations, forecasts, commitments, actuals, and material risks.

- Develop scenarios and analyses that clarify the costs, expected value, resource requirements, and operational implications of proposed programs and partnerships.

- Lead strategic and cross-functional initiatives that help Creative Partnerships scale, including operating-model design, portfolio management, role clarity, partner strategy, and new programs built from zero to one.

- Organize working teams around complex priorities by establishing owners, decision rights, milestones, dependencies, and effective working rhythms.

- Create concise executive communications, recommendations, decision memos, and operating materials that help leaders understand complex issues and align quickly.

You might thrive in this role if you:

- Bring 10+ years of experience in Strategy and Operations, Business Operations, Chief of Staff, management consulting, or a related strategic operating role in a fast-moving organization.

- Have served as a trusted partner to senior leaders, helping them set priorities, evaluate tradeoffs, communicate decisions, and maintain organizational alignment.

- Have experience building planning processes, leadership cadences, portfolio systems, and operating models from zero to one.

- Can translate ambiguous or incomplete inputs into structured recommendations, practical plans, and clear ownership.

- Have led complex cross-functional initiatives from initial definition through implementation and sustained operations.

- Bring strong financial and analytical fluency, including experience with budgets, forecasts, investment scenarios, resource allocation, and organizational planning.

- Can distill complex information into concise, executive-ready narratives.

- Can build trust across creative, operational, financial, and business teams and influence decisions without relying on formal authority.

- Understand the people, partners, budgets, and production considerations behind ambitious creative work without needing to be the person setting the creative vision.

- Bring an AI-native builder mindset and look for practical ways to make planning, reporting, decision-making, and coordination simpler and more useful.

## Skills

### Required
- Strategy and Operations
- Business Operations
- Management Consulting
- Financial Analysis
- Planning and Budgeting
- Leadership
- Communication
- Collaboration

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