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Product Marketing Lead, API Models & Research

OpenAI· Marketing
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Hybrid (San Francisco)$374k - $415kFull-timePosted 2mo ago

About the role

Senior product marketing leader responsible for shaping how OpenAI’s models, research, and API portfolio are understood, adopted, and deployed globally. Works with frontier research teams to translate capabilities into product strategies, market narratives, and customer experiences across APIs, cybersecurity, life sciences, and multimodal models.

Responsibilities

  • Define the product marketing strategy for OpenAI’s models, research advances, and API portfolio.
  • Embed with Research, Product, and Engineering to understand model capabilities, evaluations, limitations, and technical tradeoffs.
  • Shape how OpenAI explains advances in AI to developers, business leaders, and the broader market.
  • Lead positioning, launches, demonstrations, and adoption strategies across frontier, specialized, and multimodal models.
  • Help customers navigate model selection, API access, privacy, security, and responsible deployment.
  • Bring customer and market insights into research and product decisions.
  • Partner with Sales, Solutions, Partnerships, and regional teams to develop customer narratives, use cases, and enablement.
  • Work with Communications, Safety, Policy, and Legal to ensure technical claims are accurate and grounded.
  • Build and lead a high-performing product marketing team and define success across understanding, adoption, and API usage.

Qualifications

  • 12+ years of experience in product marketing across AI, developer platforms, enterprise technology, cloud, or other complex technical products.
  • Experience building and leading product marketing teams or functions.
  • Ability to understand sophisticated technical systems and explain them clearly without losing nuance.
  • Experience working closely with research, engineering, or advanced product development teams.
  • Led major launches and sustained adoption strategies across a product portfolio.
  • Strong judgment in positioning, technical storytelling, and executive communication.
  • Understanding of how developers and enterprises evaluate APIs, model capabilities, security, and privacy.
  • Ability to operate across senior stakeholders and navigate strategic leadership to hands-on execution.

Skills

Required:Product marketing strategyCross-functional leadershipTechnical storytelling

Benefits

  • 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 (up to 8 weeks)
  • Paid time off: flexible PTO and up to 15 days annually for non-exempt employees
  • 13+ paid company holidays and additional paid office closures
  • Mental health and wellness support
  • Employer-paid basic life and disability coverage
  • Annual learning and development stipend
  • Daily meals in offices and meal delivery credits
  • Relocation support for eligible employees
  • Additional taxable fringe benefits (e.g., charitable donation matching and wellness stipends)
Last updated Aug 20, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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