Cyber AI Partner Director

OpenAI · New York City

Posted Nov 3, 2026 · full time

Est. total comp~$191K–$295K

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About the Role

You’ll help shape how OpenAI cybersecurity partners bring frontier AI to defenders across the Americas. Working with partner executives and security practitioners, you’ll turn customer needs into joint opportunities, successful deployments, and repeatable offerings. This role combines executive partnership leadership with direct responsibility for growing the business in a rapidly developing market.

This is a hands-on partner sales role spanning global system integrators (GSIs), managed security service providers (MSSPs), hyperscalers, security independent software vendors (ISVs), and value-added resellers (VARs). You’ll develop partner capabilities for your assigned territory or portfolio and work alongside partner sellers and OpenAI account teams to sell joint solutions and expand customer adoption.

In this role, you will:

- Own commercial results. Grow revenue through partner relationships. Build qualified pipeline, progress opportunities, and support sustained customer use and expansion. Maintain accurate opportunity records and a disciplined forecast.

- Build partner plans and practices. Work with partner executives and technical teams to turn customer demand into joint business plans and commercially viable cybersecurity offerings. Help partners establish the service economics, practitioner capacity, and delivery quality needed to build a repeatable business.

- Lead joint customer sales. …

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