OpenAI · 1 month ago
Launch Manager, Certifications
San Francisco
Full-time
Onsite
Mid, Senior Level
$240K/yr - $240K/yrOpenAI is an AI research and deployment company dedicated to ensuring that general-purpose artificial intelligence benefits all of humanity. As a Launch Manager, you will own the relationships and operational execution needed to deliver world-class certification launches, ensuring a smooth and impactful certification journey for enterprise partners.
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Responsibilities
Serve as the primary strategic and operational lead for certification launch partners
Drive partner vision, alignment, and success criteria with leaders across L&D, HR, technical teams, and executive sponsors at our top customers
Build trust quickly, anticipate needs, and influence partner decisions that ensure successful certification rollout and adoption
Design and run partner pilots end-to-end: scoping, milestone setting, readiness, communications, logistics, and measurement
Build repeatable playbooks that reduce friction and raise quality across partners as the program scales
Proactively identify risks and unblock cross-functional dependencies before they become issues
Collaborate deeply with the Certification/Jobs team to align partner needs with product, assessment, and content roadmaps
Coordinate with Certification/Jobs to ensure certification platform capabilities meet enterprise requirements (assessment delivery, scoring, reporting, badging)
Partner with Customer Education to ensure curriculum and assessment quality meets OpenAI’s rigor
Synthesize structured partner insights and influence product decisions and program evolution
Establish clear partner and launch metrics (activation, engagement, completion, pass rates)
Build and maintain transparent reporting for internal stakeholders
Turn partner data and feedback into actionable recommendations that shape the certification strategy and OpenAI’s broader learning ecosystem
Contribute to the partner strategy for distribution—employers, platforms, training providers, and ecosystem integrators
Identify new partnership opportunities that accelerate adoption and expand the reach of OpenAI certifications
Qualification
Required
Have deep experience owning strategic partnerships or complex enterprise programs end-to-end
Thrive in ambiguous, fast-moving environments and can independently establish structure, clarity, and momentum
Influence senior stakeholders with ease and drive alignment across multiple organizations
Operate with strong product intuition and can translate partner needs into concrete requirements for Product and Engineering
Communicate with exceptional clarity and can navigate technical and non-technical environments confidently
Build processes that scale while staying lightweight and focused on impact
Care about responsible AI education and building certifications that are defensible, rigorous, and globally meaningful
Preferred
Experience launching education or certification programs with enterprise partners or platforms
Familiarity with assessment design, psychometrics, or workforce development ecosystems
Prior exposure to AI/ML concepts or strong aptitude for technical learning
Experience working with global or multi-region partners
Company
OpenAI
OpenAI is an AI research and deployment company that develops advanced AI models, including ChatGPT. It is a sub-organization of OpenAI Foundation.
Founded in 2015
201-500 employees
H1B Sponsorship
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2025 (1)
2024 (1)
2023 (1)
2022 (18)
2021 (10)
2020 (6)
Funding
Current Stage
Growth StageTotal Funding
$79BKey Investors
The Walt Disney CompanySoftBankThrive Capital
2025-12-11Corporate Round· $1B
2025-10-02Secondary Market· $6.6B
2025-03-31Series Unknown· $40B
Leadership Team
Sam Altman
CEO & Co-Founder
Greg Brockman
President, Chairman, & Co-Founder
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