What are the responsibilities and job description for the Senior Recruiter, Growth Marketing position at OpenAI?
About The Team
At OpenAI, we are dedicated to building safe artificial general intelligence (AGI) to benefit all of humanity. Our mission attracts the world’s top talent in science, engineering, product, and business to address one of the most ambitious challenges of our time.
The Recruiting team plays a critical role in this mission by identifying and hiring exceptional people who align with OpenAI’s values and cultural ambitions. We aim to set the standard for excellence and innovation in recruiting—connecting outstanding candidates with opportunities to shape the future of AI.
About The Role
OpenAI is scaling rapidly, and our Growth organization is central to bringing our technology to millions of users and customers around the world. We’re looking for a Senior Recruiter to lead hiring for Growth Marketing, partnering closely with leaders across marketing, product growth, partnerships, and go-to-market teams.
In this role, you’ll own and drive recruiting for high-impact growth marketing talent—from performance marketing and lifecycle marketing to product-led growth, analytics, and creative strategy. You’ll work closely with senior hiring leaders to shape hiring strategy, map competitive talent markets, and deliver exceptional candidate experiences.
You’ll collaborate with a world-class recruiting team—including recruiters, sourcers, and recruiting coordinators—while acting as a trusted advisor to hiring managers and senior stakeholders across the Growth organization.
Your Responsibilities
This role is based in San Francisco or Seattle. We are not considering remote applications for this position. Relocation assistance is available.
We operate on a hybrid schedule with three days per week in the office, with optional work-from-home on Thursdays and Fridays.
Our open-plan offices feature height-adjustable desks, conference rooms, phone booths, well-stocked kitchens with snacks and drinks, and comfortable spaces for collaboration and socializing.
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.
To notify OpenAI that you believe this job posting is non-compliant, please submit a report through this form. No response will be provided to inquiries unrelated to job posting compliance.
We are committed to providing reasonable accommodations to applicants with disabilities, and requests can be made via this link.
OpenAI Global Applicant Privacy Policy
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.
Compensation Range: $240K
At OpenAI, we are dedicated to building safe artificial general intelligence (AGI) to benefit all of humanity. Our mission attracts the world’s top talent in science, engineering, product, and business to address one of the most ambitious challenges of our time.
The Recruiting team plays a critical role in this mission by identifying and hiring exceptional people who align with OpenAI’s values and cultural ambitions. We aim to set the standard for excellence and innovation in recruiting—connecting outstanding candidates with opportunities to shape the future of AI.
About The Role
OpenAI is scaling rapidly, and our Growth organization is central to bringing our technology to millions of users and customers around the world. We’re looking for a Senior Recruiter to lead hiring for Growth Marketing, partnering closely with leaders across marketing, product growth, partnerships, and go-to-market teams.
In this role, you’ll own and drive recruiting for high-impact growth marketing talent—from performance marketing and lifecycle marketing to product-led growth, analytics, and creative strategy. You’ll work closely with senior hiring leaders to shape hiring strategy, map competitive talent markets, and deliver exceptional candidate experiences.
You’ll collaborate with a world-class recruiting team—including recruiters, sourcers, and recruiting coordinators—while acting as a trusted advisor to hiring managers and senior stakeholders across the Growth organization.
Your Responsibilities
- Partner with Growth Marketing leaders to understand current and future hiring needs across areas such as performance marketing, lifecycle marketing, growth strategy, analytics, and product growth.
- Own end-to-end recruiting for growth marketing roles, from talent mapping and sourcing strategy through offer close.
- Develop strategic sourcing plans to identify and engage top growth marketing talent across leading technology companies and high-performing startups.
- Manage stakeholder expectations and advise hiring managers using talent market insights, funnel data, and best practices.
- Deliver an exceptional candidate experience from initial outreach through interview process and closing.
- Build and maintain strong relationships with senior leaders and cross-functional partners across Growth, Product, and Marketing.
- Drive creative outreach strategies, networking, and targeted campaigns to attract passive candidates in highly competitive talent markets.
- Partner with recruiting operations and employer brand teams to ensure growth marketing hiring is scalable, data-driven, and candidate-centric.
- 8 years of recruiting experience, with significant experience hiring for marketing, growth, or go-to-market roles in high-growth technology companies.
- Proven track record recruiting for competitive growth marketing talent, including performance marketing, lifecycle marketing, growth strategy, or product growth.
- Strong stakeholder management skills and the ability to build trusted partnerships with senior leaders.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
- Ability to operate in fast-paced environments with shifting priorities and evolving organizational needs.
- A strategic mindset paired with strong execution—comfortable both designing hiring strategies and delivering results.
This role is based in San Francisco or Seattle. We are not considering remote applications for this position. Relocation assistance is available.
We operate on a hybrid schedule with three days per week in the office, with optional work-from-home on Thursdays and Fridays.
Our open-plan offices feature height-adjustable desks, conference rooms, phone booths, well-stocked kitchens with snacks and drinks, and comfortable spaces for collaboration and socializing.
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.
To notify OpenAI that you believe this job posting is non-compliant, please submit a report through this form. No response will be provided to inquiries unrelated to job posting compliance.
We are committed to providing reasonable accommodations to applicants with disabilities, and requests can be made via this link.
OpenAI Global Applicant Privacy Policy
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.
Compensation Range: $240K
Salary : $240,000