Executive Business Partner, B2B Ads Solutions

About the Team

Our Executive Operations team includes Executive Business Partners and Administrative Business Partners, who serve as trusted advisors and collaborators to OpenAI's executives and leaders, focused on strong communication and operational excellence across teams. With a focus on elevating the impact and efficiency of leadership, we anticipate needs, streamline processes, and provide comprehensive support to ensure our executives can focus on high-impact initiatives. We play a pivotal role in driving success and achieving key milestones by cultivating strong relationships and leveraging our deep understanding of business objectives. With a commitment to excellence and a proactive approach, we are dedicated to empowering our leaders and contributing to the overall growth and success of the company.

Our leadership team reflects OpenAI's culture and core values and is a mission-driven, kind, and thoughtful group. We take pride in creating a work environment that fosters collaboration, open communication, and authenticity, making OpenAI an excellent place to work for highly accomplished professionals.

About the Role:

We're looking for an Executive Business Partner to support the VP of Global Ad Solutions as OpenAI builds its first advertising business.

The Executive Business Partner will be a proactive and adaptable partner to executives, managing complex scheduling, coordinating projects, and optimizing workflows. This role requires independence, task-level ownership, and a deep understanding of OpenAI's mission to foster AGI that benefits humanity. The ideal candidate is comfortable with ambiguity, rapidly-evolving business priorities, and can drive best practices to help scale exec and team operations.

This role is based in New York. We use a hybrid work model of 3 days in the office per week and offer relocation assistance to new employees.

In this role, you will:

• Build strong connections within the immediate team and across other departments, becoming a trusted partner to leaders. This includes an understanding of team dynamics, priorities, and stakeholders, facilitating seamless coordination on high-stakes projects

• Excel in sharing information clearly and efficiently, adapting communication styles for a broad range of audiences

• Manage a highly dynamic executive calendar, making thoughtful trade-offs across internal priorities, customer and agency engagements, travel, and high-visibility industry moments.

• Coordinate closely across Product, Engineering, Marketing, Legal, Policy, and GTM partners to keep high-stakes workstreams, meetings, and follow-through moving smoothly.

• Operate with discretion and independence, proactively optimizing processes and flagging risks, while ensuring sensitive information is handled with care

You might thrive in this role if you have / are:

• 6-14 years of experience in an executive support role

• Supported multiple leaders with complex and highly cross-functional teams

• Worked directly with customer facing teams (Sales or Marketing) in a high-growth startup, or similar environment

• Managed and optimized extremely busy calendars

• Extreme attention to detail - it's not a personality trait but an exercised functional skill e.g. mastery of project-based tools; tracking near-/long-term deliverables

• Exceptional communication skills - being able to tailor a message appropriate to a specific audience (writing an email to a customer vs. an exec)

• Professionalism and discretion - you understand the balance between transparency and confidentiality

• Independent task level operator

• One-team mindset - Partnership and collaboration is a cornerstone in how you operate

• Extremely fluent in Slack, Google Calendar, Docs, Sheets, Gmail, and other modern productivity software, and are excited to learn and use new tools.

• Genuine interest in the technology we're building and the transformative potential of AI

• Capable and comfortable working in a rapidly changing and often ambiguous environment

About OpenAI

OpenAI 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, and to achieve our mission, we must encompass and value the many different perspectives, voices, and experiences that form the full spectrum of humanity.

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