Strategic Partnerships Manager, Korea

The role

The Strategic Partnerships Manager will grow the impact of OpenAI's strategic partnerships in Korea. You will own a portfolio of partnerships from onboarding and launch through ongoing performance, renewal and expansion.

What you will do

• Own joint plans and ongoing execution for strategic partnerships in Korea.
• Identify and negotiate opportunities to expand partnerships.
• Build trusted relationships with partner executives and operating teams.
• 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.
• Measure acquisition, activation, repeat usage and paid conversion.

Required qualifications

• 8+ years of experience in partner management, product partnerships, strategic partnerships or business development in technology.
• Ownership of complex partnerships through launch, ongoing growth, expansion and renewal.
• 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.
• 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.

About the company

OpenAI is an AI research and deployment company dedicated to ensuring that general-purpose artificial intelligence benefits all of humanity.