Partner Manager, News

OpenAI's Media Partnerships team collaborates with the world's leading media companies to explore innovative AI strategies and OpenAI product opportunities. We focus on delivering sustainable value through close partnerships and internal collaboration. Our mission is to foster strong relationships within the media industry and effectively communicate OpenAI's vision, values, and innovations.

As a Partner Manager, you'll build and nurture relationships with our news publishing partners through 1:1 interactions, industry programs, and other partnerships. You'll focus on building trust around OpenAI's mission, defining product collaboration opportunities, and educating on OpenAI's technology.

You'll spend time with media organizations and understand their process, their motivations, the challenges they face, and their professional landscape. You will facilitate a feedback loop between OpenAI and the news industry, effectively communicating our mission, vision, and goals while seeking feedback and sharing insights to inform product development and policy decisions. You'll be responsible for building and executing strategies that cross an evolving number of industries.

This role is based in London, England. We use a hybrid work model of 3 days in the office per week and offer relocation assistance to new employees.

• Build and nurture high-value relationships with news organizations
• Represent OpenAI in external partner meetings and public engagements
• Create and support programs that enable OpenAI to connect with the media industry at scale
• Build a communication loop between OpenAI and media partners related to our latest product developments and partner feedback
• Help news organizations activate and adopt OpenAI products by leading hands on enablement sessions, including ChatGPT Enterprise trainings
• Codify best practices and playbooks that enable the broader news industry to adopt and benefit from OpenAI technologies
• Work closely with the product, design, legal, and communications teams and other key internal stakeholders to share partner perspectives

• Have 8 10+ years experience managing relationships with media partners in one or several industries; experience at or partnering with news publishers is critical
• Are deeply empathetic to our partners' challenges and can translate these to actionable feedback for our internal teams
• Are deeply curious about how the media industry is thinking about AI tools
• Have exceptional communication skills and can distill complex technical concepts into conversations that are meaningful for media partners
• Thrive in a collaborative environment and enjoy working across teams of different background backgrounds and domain expertise
• Are comfortable working in a fast paced environment and can adapt to changing priorities and technologies
• Are resourceful and can find creative solutions to challenges
• Believe in the importance of transparency and authenticity in communication
• Are mission aligned with the goals of OpenAI

OpenAI is an AI research and deployment company dedicated to ensuring that general purpose artificial intelligence benefits all of humanity. We push the boundaries of the capabilities of AI systems and seek to safely deploy them to the world through our products. AI is an extremely powerful tool that must be created with safety and human needs at its core, and to achieve our mission, we must encompass and value the many different perspectives, voices, and experiences that form the full spectrum of humanity.

We are an equal opportunity employer, and we do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, age, veteran status, disability, genetic information, or other applicable legally protected characteristic.

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