About the Position

Growth Partnerships Manager, Korea

Seoul, South Korea

About the Team

OpenAI’s Partnerships team builds relationships that expand the reach of our products, make them more useful, and accelerate adoption around the world. The Growth Partnerships Manager will grow the impact of OpenAI’s strategic partnerships in Korea, expanding adoption, deepening engagement, and making our products more useful to local users. You will own a portfolio of partnerships from onboarding and launch through ongoing performance, renewal, and expansion, turning partner commitments into measurable results for OpenAI and its partners.

Responsibilities

Own joint plans and ongoing execution for strategic partnerships in Korea, with clear milestones, owners, and partner commitments.
Identify and negotiate opportunities to expand partnerships, aligning commercial terms, product scope, marketing support, and long-term value.
Build trusted relationships with partner executives and operating teams; resolve issues and maintain momentum after signing.
Coordinate Product, Engineering, Marketing, Analytics, and Korea GTM to deliver integrations, launches, and campaigns.
Translate Korean user needs and market insights into focused partnership opportunities that improve local relevance, utility, and distribution.
Measure acquisition, activation, repeat usage, and paid conversion; use performance reviews to prioritize improvements and surface risks.

Requirements

8+ years of experience in partner management, product partnerships, strategic partnerships, or business development in technology, including ownership of complex partnerships through launch, ongoing growth, expansion, and renewal.
A track record of improving partner performance and delivering measurable adoption or commercial outcomes after launch.
Strong understanding of Korea’s digital ecosystem, local user needs, and partner operating practices.
Product judgment and the ability to work credibly with technical stakeholders on integration scope and roadmap tradeoffs.
Strong communication, commercial negotiation, and relationship-management skills with senior external stakeholders.
Ability to use adoption and funnel data to assess partner performance and focus effort on measurable outcomes.
Ability to operate independently in ambiguity while coordinating distributed, cross-functional teams.
Experience adapting global partnership approaches to local market needs and building durable relationships in Korea.
Fluency in Korean and English, with the ability to lead partner meetings, commercial negotiations, and written communication in Korean and English.

We Offer

Opportunity to work with a leading AI research and deployment company.
Be part of a mission-driven team dedicated to ensuring that general-purpose artificial intelligence benefits all of humanity.
Competitive compensation package.
Comprehensive benefits including health, dental, and vision insurance.
Professional development opportunities.

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.

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Growth Partnerships Manager, Korea

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