Lead, Ads Prospecting & Customer Intelligence

San Francisco, CA (Hybrid)

$287K/yr – $318K/yrSenior LevelFull time

Posted 3 days ago

Job Summary

Own the end-to-end data, product, and operating framework that links data, decisions, and workflows to measurable business outcomes, driving audience-building, targeting, and lifecycle optimization across sales, marketing, and product.

  • Lead strategy, data model design, and governance for unified advertiser data
  • Own scoring, next-best-action, and orchestration across marketing and sales

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Lead the function’s strategy, roadmap, operating model, and adoption. Connect platform investments to measurable advertiser and business outcomes.
  • Define a unified prospect, account, contact, and advertiser data model. Establish standards for identity, data quality, provenance, freshness, confidence, and consent.
  • Combine market, intent, behavioral, product, CRM, campaign, and customer-success signals to improve targeting and customer engagement.
  • Design enrichment and verification workflows. Evaluate in-house capabilities, platforms, vendors, APIs, AI, and human review to select effective solutions.
  • Develop scoring and next-best-action models using customer fit, intent, activity, reachability, lifecycle stage, and growth potential.
  • Connect intelligence to action across sales, marketing, product, paid media, partners, and lifecycle journeys through coordinated routing and activation.
  • Enable marketers to create audiences, configure triggered journeys, run experiments, and execute campaigns through intuitive systems with quality checks and approvals.
  • Build feedback loops that use outreach, engagement, conversion, spend, retention, churn, and customer-success outcomes to improve targeting and lifecycle decisions.
  • Measure data quality, coverage, targeting accuracy, deliverability, conversion, and incremental value. Establish permissions, suppression, auditability, and provider-performance standards.

Requirements

  • Bring substantial experience building go-to-market systems, customer-data products, growth platforms, lifecycle infrastructure, revenue systems, or marketing technology.
  • Demonstrate ownership of platforms that connect data, decisions, and workflows to measurable commercial outcomes.
  • Apply strong product judgment to prioritize opportunities, define useful solutions, and sequence delivery.
  • Translate identity resolution, enrichment, scoring, segmentation, routing, experimentation, and feedback loops into clear system requirements.
  • Design practical solutions with marketers and sales teams, grounded in their campaign and customer workflows.
  • Explore data and test ideas with tools such as analytics platforms, SQL, APIs, automation, or AI-assisted prototyping. Production engineering experience is not required.
  • Evaluate build, buy, and integration choices across CRM, marketing automation, customer data platforms, and campaign-execution systems.
  • Lead a small team and build alignment with senior cross-functional partners.
  • Apply sound judgment to privacy, consent, deliverability, data rights, governance, and customer trust.
  • Bring relevant experience in advertising, SMB or self-serve businesses, product-led SaaS, marketplaces, commerce, fintech, enterprise go-to-market, or other multi-segment customer journeys.

Preferred

  • Experience building prospecting or customer intelligence platforms for advertising, SMB, or self-serve businesses.
  • Track record combining customer and intent data to improve targeting and conversion.
  • Experience deploying enrichment, scoring, and next-best-action models across marketing and sales.
  • Experience integrating data vendors, CRM, marketing automation, and customer data platforms.
  • Hands-on experience using SQL, APIs, automation, or AI to validate growth solutions.
  • Experience building feedback loops and governance practices that improve performance, data quality, and trust.
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OpenAI

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OpenAI is an AI research and deployment company dedicated to ensuring that general-purpose artificial intelligence benefits all of humanity. AI is an extremely powerful tool that must be created with safety and human needs at its core. OpenAI is dedicated to putting that alignment of interests first — ahead of profit.To achieve our mission, we must encompass and value the many different perspectives, voices, and experiences that form the full spectrum of humanity. Our investment in diversity, equity, and inclusion is ongoing, executed through a wide range of initiatives, and championed and supported by leadership.At OpenAI, we believe artificial intelligence has the potential to help people solve immense global challenges, and we want the upside of AI to be widely shared. Join us in shaping the future of technology.

Founded in 2015
San Francisco, California, USA
9.9K employees (629 in marketing)
91% recommend to a friend
100% CEO approval

Salaries

Posted range

$287K/yr – $318K/yr

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Funding

Total Funding
$189B
Last Raise
$110B
Corporate Round, 17 days ago

Funding History

  • Feb 2026
    Corporate Round • $110B
  • Dec 2025
    Corporate Round • $1B
  • Oct 2025
    Secondary Market • $6.6B

Traffic Signals

Monthly Visitors
266.3M
Monthly Google Ads Budget
$2M
Traffic Source Mix
Search
52.5%
Direct
37.3%
Referral
9.4%
Social
0.5%
Paid
0.3%

Headcount Trend

Current headcount: ~9.9K

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