
Private Equity Partnerships Manager
OpenAI
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Hybrid
Location: New York City • New York • United States
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Salary
💰 $0 - $350,000 per year
Tech Stack
About the role
- Build and manage senior sponsor relationships
- Serve as a trusted point of contact for private equity firms and senior operating leaders
- Support executive-level conversations around AI strategy, value creation, and transformation
- Represent OpenAI in meetings, events, and industry forums
- Support portfolio-level AI adoption
- Help portfolio companies identify high-impact AI use cases aligned with business priorities
- Coordinate enablement activities such as executive briefings, workshops, and learning sessions
- Partner with internal teams to ensure customers receive the right technical and deployment support
- Drive successful customer outcomes
- Work with sales and technical teams to support complex customer engagements
- Contribute to business case development, stakeholder alignment, and adoption planning
- Help ensure smooth transitions from initial engagement through deployment and expansion; define, measure and achieve shared KPIs with private equity firms
- Collaborate cross-functionally
- Partner with internal stakeholders across sales, engineering, customer success, marketing, and operations
- Share insights and feedback from customers to help inform product and go-to-market improvements
- Contribute to internal best practices for working with investment firms and their portfolios
Requirements
- Significant experience working with private equity firms, portfolio companies, or complex enterprise customers
- Background in strategic partnerships, enterprise sales, consulting, or go-to-market leadership
- Experience engaging with C-suite and senior executives as a trusted advisor
- Strong ability to translate technical capabilities into clear business outcomes
- Excellent stakeholder management skills and a track record of driving complex programs to execution
- Outstanding verbal communication and facilitation skills, including delivering engaging presentations, workshops, or webinars to large senior and executive audiences
- High attention to detail and operational rigor, with the ability to drive clarity and execution through precise written communication and effective cross-functional collaboration
- Experience with cloud, software, or AI platforms (Preferred)
- Exposure to large-scale enablement programs or ecosystem-based GTM models (Preferred)
- Familiarity working across sales, technical, and customer success organizations (Preferred)
- Experience as an operator, advisor, or investor is a plus (Preferred)
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Hard Skills & Tools
AI strategyvalue creationtransformationbusiness case developmentstakeholder alignmentadoption planningKPI measurementcloud platformssoftware platformsAI platforms
Soft Skills
stakeholder managementverbal communicationfacilitation skillspresentation skillsattention to detailoperational rigorcross-functional collaborationtrusted advisorengagement with C-suitedriving complex programs