Executive Innovation Lead, AI Transformation

OpenAI

Executive Innovation Lead guiding innovation engagements for AI transformation with CEOs and senior leaders. Leading workshops and identifying opportunities for product and service enhancements in AI.

Posted 7/22/2026full-timeSan Francisco • California • 🇺🇸 United StatesSenior💰 $374,000 - $436,000 per yearWebsite

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Core Competencies

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Demonstrates expertise in leading innovation and strategy engagements with senior executives, facilitating workshops, and transforming complex ideas into actionable insights. Proficient in visual storytelling and prototyping to test concepts and drive decision-making.

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Innovation LeadershipWorkshop Design and FacilitationStrategic ThinkingVisual StorytellingCross-Functional Team Collaboration

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Hard Skills

Innovation StrategyPrototypingDesign ThinkingMarket AnalysisCustomer AdvisoryDecision-Making FrameworksOpportunity Portfolio DevelopmentNarrative BuildingAmbiguity ManagementResearch Methodologies

Soft Skills

CuriosityTrust BuildingImaginationRigorCollaboration

Industry Keywords

Executive EngagementBusiness Model InnovationEmerging BehaviorsCustomer ValueOperating Model Change

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Lead innovation engagements with CEOs, executive sponsors, and senior functional leaders.
Help customers identify where AI could create new products, services, experiences, capabilities, or business models.
Challenge conventional assumptions and help leaders consider possibilities beyond today’s processes and constraints.
Design and facilitate executive workshops that move from exploration to clear choices and action.
Turn broad ambitions into focused innovation questions and opportunities.
Partner with researchers to uncover unmet needs, emerging behaviors, and signals of change.
Guide designers and prototypers in making future concepts tangible through experiences, narratives, demos, and prototypes.
Connect new ideas to customer value, business impact, operating-model change, governance, and technical feasibility.
Lead multidisciplinary pods while maintaining clear roles, decisions, and handoffs.
Build compelling executive narratives, opportunity portfolios, roadmaps, and near-term experiments.
Create the conditions for productive disagreement, bold thinking, and practical decision-making.
Turn lessons from individual engagements into reusable innovation methods, tools, and playbooks.

Requirements

What you’ll need

Have led innovation, strategy, transformation, design, or customer advisory work with CEOs and senior executives.
Can help leaders rethink a familiar business problem rather than simply improve an existing process.
Are an exceptional workshop designer and facilitator who can move a group from possibility to decision.
Balance imagination with rigor and know how to distinguish a promising idea from innovation theater.
Can bring structure to ambiguous problems without narrowing the opportunity too quickly.
Ask incisive questions and can challenge senior leaders while maintaining trust.
Can identify patterns across interviews, observations, market shifts, and emerging behaviors.
Turn complex or incomplete information into a clear point of view and a compelling story.
Have led teams spanning strategy, research, design, prototyping, technology, and customer-facing functions.
Understand how to use prototypes and visual storytelling to test an idea, not simply present it.
Are curious about unfamiliar industries and energized by problems without obvious answers.
Can collaborate fluently with technical teams without needing to be an engineer.

Benefits

Comp & perks

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 (parking and transit)
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 (up to 8 weeks)
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 for focus and recharge, plus paid sick or safe time (1 hour per 30 hours worked, or more, as required by applicable state or local law)
Mental health and wellness support
Employer-paid basic life and disability coverage
Annual learning and development stipend to fuel your professional growth
Daily meals in our offices, and meal delivery credits as eligible
Relocation support for eligible employees
Additional taxable fringe benefits, such as charitable donation matching and wellness stipends, may also be provided.