The OpenAI Partnership Operations Lead will oversee the operational framework for the Microsoft-OpenAI partnership, ensuring effective collaboration across various teams and stakeholders. This principal-level role requires a strategic leader who can navigate complex priorities and drive accountability for commitments. The successful candidate will maintain a comprehensive view of partnership activities and facilitate communication between Microsoft and OpenAI. The focus is on creating structure, improving processes, and ensuring alignment with broader business objectives.

• Bachelor's Degree AND 6+ years experience in engineering, product/technical program management, data analysis, or product development OR equivalent experience.
• 8+ years of experience managing cross-functional and/or cross-team projects.
• 3+ years of experience managing cross-functional and/or cross-team projects.
• 1+ year(s) of experience reading and/or writing code.
• Extensive experience leading complex, cross-functional technical programs or company-wide initiatives.
• Strong strategic judgment and the ability to connect operational decisions to broader business and technology objectives.
• Exceptional organizational ability to maintain context across many concurrent workstreams.
• Proven ability to influence across organizational boundaries and drive accountability without direct authority.
• Outstanding written and verbal communication skills, including experience advising senior leaders.
• Familiarity with AI development, cloud platforms, or emerging technologies.

• Lead partnership operations and continuously improve the operating model for the Microsoft-OpenAI partnership.
• Create structure across a complex portfolio of priorities, workstreams, stakeholders, and dependencies.
• Establish effective operating rhythms, governance mechanisms, communication channels, and decision processes.
• Ensure the partnership operates as a coordinated system rather than as a collection of disconnected initiatives.
• Identify friction in team collaboration and drive improvements to increase speed and effectiveness.
• Develop and maintain a comprehensive view of Microsoft's priorities and activities across the partnership.
• Connect information across product, engineering, research, and business discussions.
• Translate partnership priorities into clear plans, owners, milestones, and expected outcomes.
• Hold stakeholders accountable for commitments while maintaining productive working relationships.
• Provide leadership visibility and decision support by synthesizing complex information into concise explanations.

• Employees at Microsoft are often offered comprehensive, “world-class” benefits—including health and mental-wellness programs, competitive pay with bonuses and stock awards, and retirement/savings options. Time-off and flexibility are common, with generous vacation and holidays, parental and caregiver leave, and flexible work schedules, alongside learning support, employee resource groups, product discounts, and matching-gifts/volunteering programs. Specific benefits can vary by region.