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OpenAIOpenAISan Francisco, CA

Partnerships Lead - Cyber

Leads the sourcing, structuring, launch, and growth of cybersecurity technology partnerships, coordinating technical and commercial workstreams through scaled customer adoption. Requires 8+ years in partnerships or related ecosystem roles plus cybersecurity, enterprise software, cloud, or developer technology experience.

266k – 370k/yr
Hybrid8+ YOEPartnerships

About the role

Responsibilities

  • Source, close, and manage a portfolio of cybersecurity technology partners.
  • Identify high-value use cases across security operations, identity, cloud security, application security, threat intelligence, governance, risk, and compliance.
  • Develop partner plans covering integration, launch, enablement, co-marketing, co-selling, and growth.
  • Support partnership structuring and coordinate product, technical, commercial, legal, and security workstreams.
  • Help partners move from concept and technical validation to production launch and scaled customer adoption.
  • Run regular partner reviews, track commitments, resolve blockers, and identify expansion opportunities.
  • Coordinate closely with product, engineering, technical success, sales, marketing, legal, security, and operations.
  • Measure partner pipeline, launches, model adoption, consumption, customer outcomes, and partner health.

Requirements

  • 8+ years of experience in partnerships, business development, alliances, partner success, or ecosystem roles.
  • Experience in cybersecurity, enterprise software, cloud platforms, or developer technologies.
  • Proven ability to manage external relationships while independently driving detailed cross-functional execution.
  • Technical curiosity and the ability to discuss APIs, AI models, integrations, security architecture, and enterprise requirements.
  • Clear, effective communication and a track record of building trust with partner and internal stakeholders.
  • Strong operating discipline, urgency, and consistent follow-through across multiple workstreams.
  • Comfort managing a portfolio and making sound tradeoffs in a fast-changing market.

Skills

CybersecurityBusiness DevelopmentPartner Managementcloud platformsEnterprise SoftwareAPIsai modelssecurity architectureIntegrationsthreat intelligencecross-functional execution

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