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Partner Solutions Architect

OpenAI
San Francisco, CA Full Time
POSTED ON 3/17/2026 CLOSED ON 4/17/2026

What are the responsibilities and job description for the Partner Solutions Architect position at OpenAI?

About The Team

The Solutions Architecture team ensures the safe and effective deployment of Generative AI applications for developers and enterprises. We act as trusted advisors and technical partners to our customers, helping them build and execute their AI adoption strategy post-sale. Our mission is to develop a strong backlog of GenAI use cases tailored to each customer’s industry and to drive these initiatives from prototype to production through hands-on technical guidance and partnership.

As a Partner Solutions Architect, you’ll support systems integrators and their most strategic customers transform their business through solutions such as customer service, automated content generation, and novel applications that make use of our newest, most exciting models.

About The Role

We are looking for a driven solutions leader with a product mindset as the founding Partner Solutions Architect to own the technical engagement with our systems integrators (including GSIs, RSIs, and boutique SIs) and ensure their customers achieve tangible business value with GenAI. You will help partners identify high-value use cases and provide technical enablement through the implementation of AI solutions. Your efforts will accelerate partners’ time to unlock distribution and adoption, ensuring they deliver exceptional results for our joint customers while maintaining high-quality standards. You will collaborate closely with Sales, Solutions Engineering, Applied Research, and Product teams, and you will report to the Head of Solutions Architecture.

This role is based in San Francisco, CA. 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

  • Deeply embed with GSIs, RSIs, and boutique SIs as the technical lead, serving as their technical thought partner to ideate and build novel applications on our API for their customers.
  • Work with senior SI and customer stakeholders to identify the best applications of GenAI in their industry and to build/qualify a comprehensive backlog to support their AI roadmap.
  • Intervene directly to accelerate customer time to value through building hands-on prototypes and/or by delivering impactful strategic guidance.
  • Forge and manage relationships with SI and customer stakeholders to ensure the successful deployment and scale of their applications.
  • Codify solution packages and architectural patterns to accelerate time to deployment for customers and partners.
  • Lead technical support during partners' initial projects to ensure successful implementations and mentor their technical teams towards self-sufficiency in delivering OpenAI-powered solutions.
  • Scale the Partner Solutions Architect function by sharing knowledge, codifying best practices, contributing resources to our open-source repositories, and publishing resources to internal and external knowledge bases.
  • Validate, synthesize, and deliver high-signal feedback to the Product and Research teams.

You’ll Thrive In This Role If You

  • Have 8 years of technical consulting (or equivalent) experience, managing C-level technical and business relationships with complex global organizations.
  • Have led complex technical projects and programs with many stakeholders, ideally within or through an SI.
  • Have industry experience in programming languages like Python or Javascript.
  • Have led complex implementations of Generative AI and/or traditional ML solutions.
  • Have built and/or delivered prototypes using the OpenAI API.
  • Are an effective presenter and communicator who can translate business and technical topics to all audiences, including senior leaders.
  • Own problems end-to-end and are willing to pick up whatever knowledge you're missing to get the job done.
  • Have a humble attitude, an eagerness to help your colleagues, and a desire to do whatever it takes to make the team succeed.

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.

We are an equal opportunity employer, and we do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, age, veteran status, disability, genetic information, or other applicable legally protected characteristic.

For additional information, please see OpenAI’s Affirmative Action and Equal Employment Opportunity Policy Statement.

Background checks for applicants will be administered in accordance with applicable law, and qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment consistent with those laws, including the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers, and the California Fair Chance Act, for US-based candidates. For unincorporated Los Angeles County workers: we reasonably believe that criminal history may have a direct, adverse and negative relationship with the following job duties, potentially resulting in the withdrawal of a conditional offer of employment: protect computer hardware entrusted to you from theft, loss or damage; return all computer hardware in your possession (including the data contained therein) upon termination of employment or end of assignment; and maintain the confidentiality of proprietary, confidential, and non-public information. In addition, job duties require access to secure and protected information technology systems and related data security obligations.

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