Workforce Partnerships Manager, Global Affairs

OpenAI, Inc.

Job Overview

Location

San Francisco

Job Type

Full-time

Full Job Description

📋 Description

• Build and manage strategic partnerships with workforce development organizations, community colleges, nonprofits, employers, governments, and other institutions focused on preparing individuals for an AI-enabled economy.
• Serve as the primary point of contact for OpenAI’s Global Affairs Certifications partnerships, overseeing relationship lifecycle from onboarding to renewal and expansion.
• Collaborate with Academy, Certifications, Go-to-Market, and Product teams to align workforce initiatives with organizational goals and resource availability.
• Design, launch, and execute workforce programs centered on AI literacy, upskilling, and expanding economic opportunity through technology access.
• Develop implementation playbooks and guidance materials to support partners in delivering OpenAI’s workforce programs effectively and consistently.
• Establish clear goals, success metrics, and reporting structures with each partnership to ensure accountability and measurable impact.
• Represent OpenAI at industry conferences, workshops, stakeholder roundtables, and training sessions to promote workforce initiatives and gather external insights.
• Facilitate trainings and discussions with diverse stakeholders to advance public understanding of AI’s role in workforce transformation.
• Monitor program outcomes, synthesize learnings, and translate findings into actionable recommendations to inform future programming and strategy.
• Identify emerging trends in workforce development, credentialing, and adult learning to uncover new opportunities for OpenAI’s global impact.
• Contribute to briefing materials, presentations, and thought leadership content that communicates OpenAI’s workforce vision to internal and external audiences.
• Navigate complex public-private partnership dynamics to align incentives and drive collaborative outcomes across institutional boundaries.
• Operate effectively in fast-paced, ambiguous environments with shifting priorities and evolving stakeholder needs.
• Translate OpenAI’s mission of ensuring AGI benefits all of humanity into practical, scalable workforce programs that reduce inequality and expand opportunity.
• Maintain deep alignment with OpenAI’s values of safety, inclusivity, and responsible AI deployment across all partnership activities.
• Coordinate cross-functionally with Legal, Communications, and Global Affairs teams to ensure compliance, messaging consistency, and strategic coherence.

🎯 Requirements

• Experience managing partnerships and programs within workforce development, education, nonprofit, or public-sector environments.
• Strong relationship-management and stakeholder-engagement skills.
• Experience executing multi-stakeholder initiatives from concept through implementation.
• Excellent communication and project management abilities.
• Passion for expanding access to opportunity through technology and education.
• Experience working with workforce boards, community colleges, labor organizations, or economic development entities.

🏖️ Benefits

• Opportunity to shape the future of AI and its impact on global workforce equity.
• Collaborative, mission-driven culture centered on safety, inclusivity, and responsible innovation.
• Access to cutting-edge AI research and tools to inform program design and impact.
• Support for professional growth through cross-functional exposure and leadership in global initiatives.
• Competitive compensation and comprehensive benefits package aligned with OpenAI’s standards.
• Commitment to equal opportunity and inclusive workplace practices.

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About OpenAI, Inc.

OpenAI is a San Francisco-based artificial intelligence research and deployment company founded in 2015. It develops large-scale AI models such as GPT, DALL-E, and Codex, providing cloud APIs and consumer applications like ChatGPT. Originally established as a non-profit, it later created a capped-profit subsidiary to attract capital while maintaining its mission to ensure artificial general intelligence benefits all of humanity.

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