Product Partnerships Lead, India job opportunity at OpenAI.



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OpenAI Product Partnerships Lead, India
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degreeBachelor's (B.Sc.)
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About the Team We are a small and fast-moving partnerships team that shapes and executes OpenAI’s most strategic collaborations in India. We work at the intersection of product, growth, and market expansion to build impactful relationships that accelerate adoption and unlock new use cases for OpenAI’s technologies. The team partners closely with product, engineering, research, marketing, finance, legal, and operations to design and deliver partnerships that scale OpenAI’s presence and relevance across diverse markets. Our focus is on establishing long-term strategic partners and driving sustainable growth through integrated, high-impact product experiences across consumer and B2B offerings in the region. About the Role As India Product Partnerships Lead, you will lead and scale strategic partnerships primarily in India. You will be responsible for initiating, structuring, and growing partnerships that expand OpenAI’s distribution, deepen user engagement, and accelerate product adoption across the region. This role requires strong commercial judgment, regional market fluency, and the ability to work closely with product teams to translate strategic opportunities into scalable partnership models. You will operate at both strategic and execution levels — shaping partnership strategy while driving concrete outcomes that contribute to OpenAI’s growth. This role is based in Bangalore or New Delhi. You’ll be responsible for: Initiating and scaling strategic partnerships in India that drive user growth, distribution, and adoption for OpenAI’s consumer and B2B offerings. Establishing and managing long-term strategic partners in India, serving as the primary relationship owner and strategic lead. Identifying and executing market-specific growth opportunities such as bundled offerings, embedded distribution, platform integrations, and co-developed product experiences. Shaping joint product strategy with partners by aligning roadmaps, defining shared priorities, and unlocking new use cases tailored to regional needs. Structuring, negotiating, and managing complex partnership agreements from inception through launch and scale, ensuring commercial and strategic alignment. Creating and operating governance models with partners through regular strategic reviews, executive syncs, and performance check-ins. Defining success metrics and tracking impact across growth, adoption, engagement, and partner performance, communicating results to senior leadership. We’re looking for someone with: 8+ years of experience in product partnerships, strategic partnerships, or business development within the technology or digital ecosystem. Proven experience driving growth and distribution partnerships in India. Demonstrated ability to initiate and scale partnerships that unlock measurable growth and adoption. Strong experience negotiating and structuring complex agreements that span product integration, commercial strategy, and joint go-to-market efforts. Deep understanding of India market dynamics and the ability to tailor partnership strategies to local contexts. Excellent stakeholder management skills with the ability to collaborate cross-functionally and influence at senior levels. A self-directed, highly adaptable mindset with comfort operating in fast-changing and ambiguous environments. Strong communication skills and a collaborative, solutions-oriented approach. 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. 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