{"schemaVersion":"jobsearcher.job.v1","id":"8c73a888f9dbea21ff99ebf0","url":"https://jobsearcher.com/jobs/8c73a888f9dbea21ff99ebf0","canonicalUrl":"https://jobsearcher.com/jobs/8c73a888f9dbea21ff99ebf0","title":"Executive Programs Lead, Americas","description":"Marketing - San Francisco\n\nAbout the Team\n\nEnterprise Marketing helps the world’s largest organizations understand, adopt, and scale AI. Our Executive Engagement programs bring OpenAI’s products, research, and perspective into the room with senior leaders as they consider how intelligence can be put to work against their most important priorities.\n\nThese engagements are more than briefings or events. At their best, they help a leadership team understand what is changing, distinguish what is possible now from what is still emerging, and leave with greater clarity about what to do next.\n\nAbout the Role\n\nWe are looking for an Executive Programs Lead, Americas to build and lead the portfolio through which OpenAI engages its most important customers and executives across the region.\n\nYou will own the regional strategyats ready to scale. Your mandate is to turn high-stakes customer moments into a durable business capability, one that consistently advances important relationships while preserving the judgment and customization that exceptional executive experiences require.\n\nThis is a senior people-leadership role for a builder who can set direction, make disciplined portfolio choices, and create the systems and team required to deliver at scale. You will partner closely with Sales, Product Marketing, Product, Research, Solutions, Customer Success, Events, and OpenAI executives, moving comfortably between long-term design and the critical details of a live engagement.\n\nThis role is based in San Francisco. We use a hybrid model of three days in the office each week and offer relocation assistance. Given the customer-facing nature of the role, regular in-person participation in executive briefings and related preparation is expected and may require additional time onsite. Travel across the Americas and occasional global travel are also expected.\n\nIn this role, you will:\n\nOwn the Americas portfolio of recurring executive-engagement programs and the regional capability that supports them, setting its strategy, priorities, investments, and measures of success.\n\nLead and develop the regional team responsible for program strategy, operations, and delivery, creating clear ownership and an unusually high standard of execution.\n\nTranslate enterprise and regional priorities into a focused portfolio, including where executive engagement can materially advance an important customer relationship or business outcome.\n\nBuild an operating model that enables consistent quality and responsible scale while preserving the judgment required to determine what should be repeatable and what should remain bespoke.\n\nEnsure priority programs bring together the right customer context, narrative, speakers, demos, experience, and follow-through.\n\nPartner with Sales leadership and customer-facing teams to connect each engagement to meaningful customer objectives, decisions, and next steps.\n\nEstablish measures that connect customer insight, relationship progress, business results, experience quality, and operational health.\n\nManage regional resources, budget, vendors, and capacity with discipline, making clear tradeoffs and surfacing risks early.\n\nRepresent the Americas in global planning and help successful approaches travel across regions while preserving what needs to remain locally owned.\n\nYou might thrive in this role if you:\n\nHave 10+ years of experience building or leading executive programs, customer engagement, enterprise marketing, experience centers, field marketing, or a comparable enterprise capability.\n\nHave led and developed a high-performing team with accountability for a visible portfolio, not only individual programs.\n\nHave built or transformed a high-touch customer capability, moving it from reactive or heavily bespoke delivery toward a more strategic and scalable model.\n\nBring strong commercial judgment and credibility with senior Sales leaders, customers, and internal executives.\n\nUnderstand the difference between an exceptional executive experience and a polished event—and can connect that experience to meaningful customer and business progress.\n\nKnow how to prioritize rigorously, say no constructively, and make difficult resource decisions without losing stakeholder trust.\n\nCan translate strategy into a working system with clear ownership, strong standards, and reliable execution.\n\nCan operate credibly in a fast-moving technical environment and build effective partnerships across Product, Research, Marketing, Sales, and customer-facing teams.\n\nMove comfortably between setting direction, developing leaders, reviewing the system, and personally stepping into a critical moment.\n\nAbout OpenAI\n\nOpenAI 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 the full spectrum of humanity.\n\nWe are an equal opportunity employeration, or other applicable legally protected characteristic.\n\nBackground checks for applicants will be administered in accordance with applicable lawation technology systems and related data security obligations.\n\nTo notify OpenAI that you believe this job posting is non-compliant. No response will be provided to inquiries unrelated to job posting compliance.\n\nWe are committed to providing reasonable accommodations to applicants with disabilities.\n\nAt 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.\n\nCompensation\n\n$287K – $318K + Offers Equity","company":"OpenAI","rawCompany":"openai","city":"Millbrae","state":"CA","isRemote":false,"isActive":false,"createdAt":"2026-09-06T07:48:58.527Z","occupations":[{"code":"13-1082.00","title":"Project Management Specialists","slug":"project-management-specialists"},{"code":"11-2021.00","title":"Marketing Managers","slug":"marketing-managers"},{"code":"11-1021.00","title":"General and Operations Managers","slug":"general-and-operations-managers"}],"industries":[{"code":"513210","title":"Software Publishers","slug":"software-publishers"},{"code":"541511","title":"Custom Computer Programming Services","slug":"custom-computer-programming-services"},{"code":"541512","title":"Computer Systems Design Services","slug":"computer-systems-design-services"}],"jobPosting":{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"JobPosting","title":"Executive Programs Lead, Americas","description":"Marketing - San Francisco\n\nAbout the Team\n\nEnterprise Marketing helps the world’s largest organizations understand, adopt, and scale AI. Our Executive Engagement programs bring OpenAI’s products, research, and perspective into the room with senior leaders as they consider how intelligence can be put to work against their most important priorities.\n\nThese engagements are more than briefings or events. At their best, they help a leadership team understand what is changing, distinguish what is possible now from what is still emerging, and leave with greater clarity about what to do next.\n\nAbout the Role\n\nWe are looking for an Executive Programs Lead, Americas to build and lead the portfolio through which OpenAI engages its most important customers and executives across the region.\n\nYou will own the regional strategyats ready to scale. Your mandate is to turn high-stakes customer moments into a durable business capability, one that consistently advances important relationships while preserving the judgment and customization that exceptional executive experiences require.\n\nThis is a senior people-leadership role for a builder who can set direction, make disciplined portfolio choices, and create the systems and team required to deliver at scale. You will partner closely with Sales, Product Marketing, Product, Research, Solutions, Customer Success, Events, and OpenAI executives, moving comfortably between long-term design and the critical details of a live engagement.\n\nThis role is based in San Francisco. We use a hybrid model of three days in the office each week and offer relocation assistance. Given the customer-facing nature of the role, regular in-person participation in executive briefings and related preparation is expected and may require additional time onsite. Travel across the Americas and occasional global travel are also expected.\n\nIn this role, you will:\n\nOwn the Americas portfolio of recurring executive-engagement programs and the regional capability that supports them, setting its strategy, priorities, investments, and measures of success.\n\nLead and develop the regional team responsible for program strategy, operations, and delivery, creating clear ownership and an unusually high standard of execution.\n\nTranslate enterprise and regional priorities into a focused portfolio, including where executive engagement can materially advance an important customer relationship or business outcome.\n\nBuild an operating model that enables consistent quality and responsible scale while preserving the judgment required to determine what should be repeatable and what should remain bespoke.\n\nEnsure priority programs bring together the right customer context, narrative, speakers, demos, experience, and follow-through.\n\nPartner with Sales leadership and customer-facing teams to connect each engagement to meaningful customer objectives, decisions, and next steps.\n\nEstablish measures that connect customer insight, relationship progress, business results, experience quality, and operational health.\n\nManage regional resources, budget, vendors, and capacity with discipline, making clear tradeoffs and surfacing risks early.\n\nRepresent the Americas in global planning and help successful approaches travel across regions while preserving what needs to remain locally owned.\n\nYou might thrive in this role if you:\n\nHave 10+ years of experience building or leading executive programs, customer engagement, enterprise marketing, experience centers, field marketing, or a comparable enterprise capability.\n\nHave led and developed a high-performing team with accountability for a visible portfolio, not only individual programs.\n\nHave built or transformed a high-touch customer capability, moving it from reactive or heavily bespoke delivery toward a more strategic and scalable model.\n\nBring strong commercial judgment and credibility with senior Sales leaders, customers, and internal executives.\n\nUnderstand the difference between an exceptional executive experience and a polished event—and can connect that experience to meaningful customer and business progress.\n\nKnow how to prioritize rigorously, say no constructively, and make difficult resource decisions without losing stakeholder trust.\n\nCan translate strategy into a working system with clear ownership, strong standards, and reliable execution.\n\nCan operate credibly in a fast-moving technical environment and build effective partnerships across Product, Research, Marketing, Sales, and customer-facing teams.\n\nMove comfortably between setting direction, developing leaders, reviewing the system, and personally stepping into a critical moment.\n\nAbout OpenAI\n\nOpenAI 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 the full spectrum of humanity.\n\nWe are an equal opportunity employeration, or other applicable legally protected characteristic.\n\nBackground checks for applicants will be administered in accordance with applicable lawation technology systems and related data security obligations.\n\nTo notify OpenAI that you believe this job posting is non-compliant. No response will be provided to inquiries unrelated to job posting compliance.\n\nWe are committed to providing reasonable accommodations to applicants with disabilities.\n\nAt 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.\n\nCompensation\n\n$287K – $318K + Offers Equity","datePosted":"2026-09-06T07:48:58.527Z","dateModified":"2026-09-06T07:48:58.527Z","hiringOrganization":{"@type":"Organization","name":"OpenAI","sameAs":"https://jobsearcher.com"},"jobLocation":{"@type":"Place","address":{"@type":"PostalAddress","addressLocality":"Millbrae","addressRegion":"CA","addressCountry":"US"}},"identifier":{"@type":"PropertyValue","name":"JobSearcher","value":"8c73a888f9dbea21ff99ebf0"},"url":"https://jobsearcher.com/jobs/8c73a888f9dbea21ff99ebf0"}}