About the Team
The Corporate Development team at OpenAI leads initiatives across M&A and other strategic initiatives. We’re looking for our first integration hire — a unique opportunity to build a new function from the ground up. In this role, you’ll partner closely with senior executives and cross-functional teams to help shape and accelerate OpenAI’s growth trajectory.
This role is based in San Francisco, CA. We use a hybrid work model of 3 days in the office per week and offer relocation assistance to new employees.
In this role, you will:
Develop the foundational playbooks and processes for M&A integration at OpenAI
Engage in deal diligence, providing guidance on transaction structure, GTM alignment, and strategic business considerations
Lead and manage cross-functional workstreams throughout the integration lifecycle
Track and communicate integration progress to executive stakeholders
Establish and scale a high-performing M&A integration function
You might thrive in this role if you:
Experience in M&A, business operations, consulting, or related strategic roles
Hands-on experience leading M&A integrations
Strong cross-functional project management skills and a bias toward ownership
Excellent communication abilities — both written and verbal
A self-starter mentality with a track record of driving initiatives from concept to completion
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.
Qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment in accordance with applicable law, including the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers, and the California Fair Chance Act. 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 technology systems and related data security obligations.
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