Product Marketing Lead, API Models & Research

San Francisco, CA (Hybrid)

$374K/yr – $415K/yrSenior Level12+ years exp

Posted 3 weeks ago

Job Summary

Own the product marketing strategy for OpenAI models, research advances, and API offerings, guiding cross-functional workstreams from strategy to adoption.

  • Own strategy and execution across launches, positioning, and customer enablement.
  • Coordinate with Research, Product, Engineering, Sales, and Marketing to align messaging and drive adoption.

Job Description

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.

Requirements

  • 12+ years of experience in product marketing across AIs, enterprise technology, cloud, or other complex technical products.
  • You love the craft of product marketing and storytelling, and bring the curiosity, conviction, and passion to thrive in a deeply immersive role.
  • Have built and led product marketing teams or functions.
  • Can understand sophisticated technical systems and explain them clearly without losing nuance.
  • Have worked closely with research, engineering, or advanced product development teams.
  • Have led major launches and sustained adoption strategies across a product portfolio.
  • Bring strong judgment in positioning, technical storytelling, and executive communication.
  • Understand how developers and enterprises evaluate APIs, model capabilities, security, and privacy.
  • Can operate effectively across senior stakeholders and move between strategic leadership and hands-on execution.
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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

$374K/yr – $415K/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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