This is an opportunity to be a foundational member of the recruiting team, helping to build these technical teams from the ground up!

Responsibilities: Partner with technical teams, managing the full-cycle recruiting process from end to end Define and execute talent acquisition strategies across a broad spectrum of technical roles Identify and attract world-class technical talent Analyse performance and processes to improve top-of-funnel, pipeline efficiency, funnel conversion and offer accept rate Introduce novel approaches to recruiting that up-level the recruiting team and the organization as a whole

About you: 5+ years of full-cycle technical recruiting experience Strong sourcing skills with the ability to build top-of-funnel independently Versatile with the ability to work on a variety of different technical roles at once Execution-oriented with a strong track record of hiring world-class technical talent An equally strong partner to both hiring managers and candidates Determined, creative and curious

Compensation: The base salary range for this role is $180,000 to $190,000 + bonus, equity and US benefits.

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The base pay offered may vary depending on multiple individualized factors, including market location, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. If the role is non-exempt, overtime pay will be provided consistent with applicable laws. 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.

About the team

The Business, Life Sciences team at OpenAI tackles domains where frontier AI can transform science and industry, requiring new approaches that cut across GTM, Research, and Product. Our charter is to prove out high-leverage applications, build the right partnerships, and turn early experiments into sustainable operating models. In life sciences, we work with Research to extend scaling laws into biology and chemistry, aligning scientific progress with real-world deployment.

About the role

We are hiring a Business Lead to own account and market strategy for a portfolio of strategic life sciences organizations and research institutions. You will translate their highest-leverage priorities and constraints into a multi-year partnership strategy, a joint roadmap, and clear governance.

You will orchestrate the internal deal and deployment team to deliver outcomes in regulated environments. We measure success through delivery of customer outcomes, closed-won revenue, and long-term expansion.

This role is based in San Francisco, New York, or London. We use a hybrid work model of 3 days in the office per week and offer relocation assistance to new employees. Travel up to 30% is required.

In this role, you will:

• Own account and market strategy for a portfolio of life sciences partners, including segmentation, account plans, executive mapping, multi-threading, and a clear plan to expand usage over time.

• Build and maintain credibility with customers by translating scientific priorities and risk constraints into joint roadmaps, success metrics, and delivery plans teams can champion and execute.

• Drive revenue by leading complex deal cycles from positioning through close, including commercial structuring, pricing, and contracting in close partnership with Research, FDE, Legal, Security/GRC, and Finance.

• Run partnership governance that sustains outcomes and expansion, including exec steering, QBRs, escalation paths, and crisp renewal and expansion plans.

• Orchestrate cross-functional teams across Product, Engineering, Research, Security/GRC, and GTM to remove blockers, align decision-makers, and deliver partner outcomes on schedule.

• Identify and prioritize opportunities where scientific impact and partner value align, and manage trade-offs when priorities conflict across near-term delivery and longer-term platform bets.

• Set and defend launch expectations in regulated contexts, ensuring inspection readiness, evidence standards, and reviewer trust under delivery pressure.

You might thrive in this role if you:

• Bring 8+ years of experience leading enterprise GTM, strategic partnerships, or commercialization for technical products in regulated life sciences (biotech, pharma, CROs, clinical research, or scientific software), with a track record of closing and expanding multi-year deals, including executive-level buyer mapping and multi-threaded deals.

• Have led commercialization of technical products where adoption, governance, and executive trust determined expansion, and can translate deployment evidence into a clear business case for R&D leadership.

• Build trust with clinical, regulatory, privacy, and safety stakeholders by aligning contract terms, controls, and delivery plans to risk posture and inspection readiness.

• Communicate clearly across scientific, technical, and executive audiences, adapting language to drive alignment, decisions, and delivery.

• Build alignment across researchers, builders, and commercial teams, internally and with partners across industry, startups, and academia.

• Apply systems thinking with high execution standards, turning failures or escalations in regulated environments into improved operating standards and stronger partner governance.

• Hold a strong thesis on AI x Science and place credible market bets on which biology and chemistry problems to pursue, then turn them into focused account plans and repeatable motions.

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](https://cdn.openai.com/policies/eeo-policy-statement.pdf).

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. In addition, job duties require access to secure and protected information techno

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