Scaled Programs Lead, SMB Ads

San Francisco, CA (Hybrid)

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

Posted 3 days ago

Job Summary

You will own the global SMB agency and partner program, shaping strategy, recruitment, education, and scalable co‑marketing initiatives to drive advertiser growth.

  • Own program strategy, audience segmentation, incentives, and benefits.
  • Lead cross‑functional delivery and scale programs across markets.

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Set the global program strategy for SMB-focused agencies and scaled partners, defining priority audiences, growth goals, and investment choices.
  • Build awareness and recruit qualified participants through campaigns and outreach that demonstrate the value of OpenAI’s advertising solutions.
  • Segment agencies and partners by capabilities, needs, and growth potential. Design program tiers, incentives, and benefits that support their success.
  • Develop education, training, webinars, certification, badging, and content that help participants serve SMB advertisers effectively.
  • Launch repeatable co-marketing programs, joint campaigns, events, and reusable toolkits that reach SMB audiences through participating agencies and partners.
  • Pilot programs and measure participation, activation, advertiser growth, and economics. Scale effective approaches and refine or retire underperforming programs.
  • Lead cross-functional delivery and adapt programs across markets. Build the team and operating capabilities needed for global scale.

Requirements

  • Demonstrate success building and scaling programs for SMB-focused agencies or other partners serving small businesses.
  • Set program strategy using audience segmentation, customer insight, and commercial analysis.
  • Bring experience developing participant recruitment, education, enablement, or co-marketing programs.
  • Translate program goals into pilots, measurable outcomes, and repeatable approaches that scale.
  • Lead cross-functional initiatives with marketing, sales, partnerships, product, and operations teams.
  • Adapt programs across markets while balancing global consistency with local needs.
  • Combine hands-on program building with the ability to hire, develop, and lead a team.

Preferred

  • Experience building agency or partner programs for digital advertising platforms serving SMBs.
  • Track record launching programs that drive advertiser acquisition, activation, retention, or investment.
  • Experience designing partner tiers, certifications, incentives, and benefits.
  • Success developing scalable co-marketing campaigns, education programs, and partner toolkits.
  • Experience using program economics and experimentation to guide investment and growth.
  • Experience expanding partner programs globally and adapting them to local markets.
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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.

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San Francisco, California, USA
9.9K employees (629 in marketing)
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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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