Client Partner, Ads Solutions

About the Position

Client Partner, Ads Solutions

Join our team at OpenAI as a Client Partner, Ads Solutions to drive new advertising revenue and ensure successful business results for advertisers. This role is focused on owning the full sales cycle, from prospecting to deal closure, and developing long-term commercial partnerships.

Locations

• San Francisco, California, United States
• New York City, New York, United States

Employment Type

Full-time

Compensation

• Estimated Base Salary: $239K – $273K
• Offers Equity
• Offers Commission

The base pay offered may vary depending on multiple individualized factors, including market location, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. In addition to the salary range listed above, total compensation also includes generous equity, performance-related bonus(es) for eligible employees, and the following benefits:

• Medical, dental, and vision insurance for you and your family, with employer contributions to Health Savings Accounts
• Pre-tax accounts for Health FSA, Dependent Care FSA, and commuter expenses (parking and transit)
• 401(k) retirement plan with employer match
• Paid parental leave (up to 24 weeks for birth parents and 20 weeks for non-birthing parents), plus paid medical and caregiver leave (up to 8 weeks)
• Paid time off: flexible PTO for exempt employees and up to 15 days annually for non-exempt employees
• 13+ paid company holidays, and multiple paid coordinated company office closures throughout the year for focus and recharge, plus paid sick or safe time (1 hour per 30 hours worked, or more, as required by applicable state or local law)
• Mental health and wellness support
• Employer-paid basic life and disability coverage
• Annual learning and development stipend to fuel your professional growth
• Daily meals in our offices, and meal delivery credits as eligible
• Relocation support for eligible employees
• Additional taxable fringe benefits, such as charitable donation matching and wellness stipends, may also be provided.

Responsibilities

In this role you will:

• Prospect, qualify, and close new advertising opportunities, leading the full sales cycle from initial engagement through contract execution.
• Own and achieve a defined revenue target within an assigned territory or vertical.
• Develop and execute structured account plans to drive advertiser ROI and long-term revenue growth.
• Build and maintain relationships with senior-level advertising decision-makers, delivering strategic guidance and actively gathering their feedback.
• Structure and negotiate complex commercial agreements.
• Quantify opportunities through clear, data-driven business cases aligned to advertiser objectives.
• Lead cross-functional collaboration across Product, Engineering, Marketing, Policy, and Operations to support complex deals.
• Partner with Account Managers to ensure seamless post-sale transitions and coordinated expansion strategies.
• Maintain rigorous pipeline management and accurate revenue forecasting.

Requirements

You might thrive in this role if you:

• Have 10+ years of experience in performance marketing, digital marketing, or client-facing strategy and consulting roles.
• Have 3+ years of experience as a proven advisor influencing executives and clients.
• Have experience owning revenue targets and closing complex deals.
• Can build structured business cases and influence senior stakeholders (internally and externally).
• Have strong verbal and written communication skills.
• Can operate in ambiguous, fast-changing environments.
• Understand the client’s business and priorities to define success metrics and align on partnership goals.

About the Company

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.

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