As a Managing Director, SEO, you will be responsible for managing the P&L and growing revenue across the NAMER SEO practice. You will align the organization around a single vision for delivering AI SEO visibility and organic traffic. You will also senior sponsor our largest SEO client relationships, working with Brainlabs SEO teams to develop strategy and communicating SEO strategy to client-side C-level stakeholders.

Key responsibilities include:

• Managing the P&L and growing revenue across the NAMER SEO practice
• Aligning the organization around a single vision for delivering AI SEO visibility and organic traffic
• Senior sponsoring our largest SEO client relationships, working with Brainlabs SEO teams to develop strategy and communicating SEO strategy to client-side C-level stakeholders
• Co-leading GTM for AI Visibility efforts with the Chief Product Officer, leading new business SEO opportunities
• Defining the partners and tech to best serve Brainlabs' clients
• Guiding measurement strategy for SEO and AI Visibility
• Delivering SEO thought leadership across social media, Brainlabs' blog and industry speaking engagements

The ideal candidate will have 12+ years of SEO experience, including leading SEO teams, developing and executing SEO strategy for enterprise clients, and participating in sales processes. They will have an opinion on how AI and LLMs have changed SEO and how brands need to adapt to drive increased AI visibility. They will be held in high regard by media partners and colleagues, comfortable in a QBR, on stage or in a pitch closing media business, and have a track record of hiring, developing and growing successful teams.

We are looking for someone who lives our culture code every day, can take a pragmatic, first-principles approach, balance quick wins versus long-term tactics, and grow our SEO Practice revenue via both new business and new buying assignments from existing clients.

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Location

San Francisco

Employment Type

Full time

Department

Marketing

Compensation

• $284K – $415K

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.

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

OpenAI’s mission is to ensure the responsible and widespread adoption of artificial intelligence. In support of that mission, the Marketing team helps deeply understand customer audiences and market dynamics, influence the development of the right products, build sustainable and customer-aligned monetization models, and drive awareness, adoption, and usage across OpenAI’s products and platform.

We take a data-driven approach to understand markets, develop monetization strategies, and uncover customer needs that shape product strategy and messaging. We partner closely with Sales, Partnerships, Product, Engineering, Research, Comms, and Design to deliver a cohesive end-to-end customer experience and lead go-to-market efforts for new product launches across channels.

About the role

We’re looking for a Monetization Product Marketer, Advertising to help shape and scale our advertising products and go-to-market strategy. You’ll combine strategy, market and customer insight with strong product intuition to guide roadmap priorities, mitigate product risks, and deliver launches and coordinate go-to-markets that drive adoption and measurable business impact. This role is ideal for someone who thrives in ambiguity, enjoys turning complex technical capabilities into clear customer value, and can lead cross-functional work in a fast-moving environment.

In this role you will:

• Lead market assessment and customer discovery to identify advertiser needs, market trends, and competitive dynamics

• Translate insights into clear product requirements, positioning, and go-to-market plans in close partnership with Product and Engineering

• Partner with Design, Data Science, and Analytics to define success metrics, measurement strategy, and experimentation plans

• Identify product risk areas (e.g., performance, safety, policy, trust) and drive cross-functional plans to mitigate them

• Own launch strategy and execution for new and improved advertising products, including messaging, enablement, and rollouts

• Build narratives and materials that explain value simply (e.g., positioning, sales decks, one-pagers, FAQs, internal comms)

• Lead the go-to-market strategy and coordination to drive product adoptions and sales in coordination with Sales, Partnerships and Product (Including client communications, product documentation, and positioning)

• Coordinate across stakeholders to keep workstreams aligned, remove blockers, and deliver outcomes on time

• Continuously evaluate and improve existing experiences to drive retention, performance, and advertiser satisfaction

You might be a great fit if you…

• Have strong structured problem solving skills - taking ambiguous problems, breaking them down into answerable parts and then designing and managing a process to answer these questions and driving implementation

• Can connect advertiser needs to product strategy, and influence prioritization across Product/Engineering/Design

• Understand the advertising ecosystem: measurement, targeting/relevance, creative, auctions, and performance tradeoffs

• Have experience marketing products—especially advertising, marketing tech, platforms, or data/AI products

• Communicate clearly and persuasively—turning technical concepts into crisp customer value and differentiated positioning

• Are fluent in both qualitative and quantitative research (customer interviews, surveys, funnel analysis, experimentation)

• Thrive in fast-paced, ambiguous environments and can manage multiple concurrent projects with strong judgment

• Are highly collaborative, proactive, and comfortable leading cross-functional efforts without direct authority

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 artificial intelligence while also ensuring that AI is developed in a way that is safe and beneficial to society.

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