
Enterprise Relationship Manager, Customer Marketing
OpenAI · San Francisco, CA
- On site
- Full-time
- $280,500 / year
- San Francisco, CA
Job highlights
- Own enterprise customer relationships for advocacy.
- Identify and engage strategic Fortune 500 customers.
- Develop account-level advocacy and executive programs.
- Collaborate across multiple internal teams.
- Build repeatable processes for customer engagement.
About the role
About The Team
The Customer Marketing team showcases real-world customer outcomes through storytelling, proof, and structured advocacy programs. We partner closely with GTM, Product Marketing, Communications, Creative, Events, Legal, and regional teams to bring customer impact to life. Enterprise customer relationships are a core part of this motion. Strong relationship management helps OpenAI identify high-quality customer advocates, build trust with senior stakeholders, and turn customer outcomes into credible proof points across sales, events, campaigns, and executive moments.About The Role
As an Enterprise Relationship Manager on the Customer Marketing team, you will own and grow relationships with strategic enterprise and Fortune 500 customers who can participate in advocacy, references, storytelling, events, customer executive programs, and C-suite co-marketing. You will partner with Enterprise Marketing, Events, GTM, Product Marketing, Communications, Legal, Product, and executives to identify executive customer-program opportunities, prepare C-suite stakeholders, navigate sensitive approvals, and turn customer advisory and co-marketing moments into broader advocacy, proof, and business impact. This role is expected to be based in San Francisco, CA, and three days a week in office.In This Role, You Will
- Build and manage a prioritized portfolio of enterprise customer relationships for customer marketing and advocacy.
- Identify customers with strong outcomes, executive sponsorship, and readiness for references, events, storytelling, and co-marketing.
- Create account-level advocacy plans in partnership with GTM and Customer Success teams.
- Support and scale executive customer programs, including customer selection, stakeholder preparation, programming, follow-up, and feedback loops.
- Serve as a trusted point of coordination for customer stakeholders through advocacy, approval, and publication processes.
- Partner across Enterprise Marketing, Events, GTM, Product Marketing, Communications, Legal, and Creative to prepare customer stakeholders and connect executive customer moments to broader advocacy and proof.
- Build repeatable processes for relationship tracking, executive customer programming, customer readiness, approvals, and advocacy follow-through.
You Might Thrive In This Role, If You
- Have 7+ years of experience in customer marketing, customer advocacy, executive customer programs, customer advisory boards, strategic partnerships, enterprise account leadership, or related work, with direct experience supporting Fortune 500 or global enterprise customers.
- Are credible and composed with C-suite customer stakeholders, senior internal executives, and cross-functional partners in high-trust environments.
- Can balance customer trust with business needs and a high bar for accuracy.
- Have strong judgment about which customer opportunities are strategically valuable.
- Can influence across Sales, CS, PMM, Comms, Legal, Events, and Creative without direct authority.
- Are highly organized and able to manage multiple customer workstreams with urgency.
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. Background checks for applicants will be administered in accordance with applicable law, and qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment consistent with those laws, including the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers, and the California Fair Chance Act, for US-based candidates. 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. To notify OpenAI that you believe this job posting is non-compliant, please submit a report through this form. No response will be provided to inquiries unrelated to job posting compliance. We are committed to providing reasonable accommodations to applicants with disabilities, and requests can be made via this link. OpenAI Global Applicant Privacy Policy At OpenAI, we believe artificial intelligence has the potential to help people solve immense global challenges, and we want the upside of AI to be widely shared. Join us in shaping the future of technology. Compensation Range: $266K - $295KKey skills/competency
- Customer Marketing
- Customer Advocacy
- Relationship Management
- Enterprise Accounts
- Executive Programs
- Storytelling
- Cross-functional Collaboration
- Strategic Partnerships
- Program Management
- Fortune 500 Clients
Skills & topics
- Enterprise Relationship Manager
- Customer Marketing
- Customer Advocacy
- Relationship Management
- Account Management
- Fortune 500
- C-suite Engagement
- Storytelling
- Program Management
- Go-to-Market
- Product Marketing
- Communications
- Events
- Legal
- Creative
- San Francisco
- AI
- Technology
How to get hired
- Tailor your resume: Highlight 7+ years of customer marketing, advocacy, or enterprise account leadership, emphasizing Fortune 500 experience.
- Showcase C-suite credibility: Provide examples of successfully engaging and influencing senior customer stakeholders.
- Demonstrate organizational skills: Detail your experience managing multiple complex workstreams with urgency and accuracy.
- Quantify impact: Use metrics to show how your relationship management drove business impact and advocacy.
- Prepare for behavioral questions: Be ready to discuss how you balance customer trust with business needs.
Technical preparation
Familiarize with customer marketing platforms.,Study advocacy program best practices.,Understand enterprise account structures.,Practice executive communication skills.
Behavioral questions
Describe a complex customer relationship you managed.,How do you influence stakeholders without authority?,Share an experience balancing trust and business needs.,How do you prioritize multiple urgent workstreams?
Frequently asked questions
- What specific customer advocacy programs does OpenAI focus on for Enterprise Relationship Managers?
- As an Enterprise Relationship Manager at OpenAI, you will focus on leveraging enterprise and Fortune 500 customer relationships for various advocacy initiatives. This includes facilitating customer participation in references, storytelling opportunities, industry events, executive customer programs, and C-suite co-marketing efforts. The goal is to transform customer outcomes into credible proof points that support sales, marketing campaigns, and executive engagement.
- What is the expected work arrangement for the Enterprise Relationship Manager role at OpenAI?
- This Enterprise Relationship Manager position is expected to be based in San Francisco, CA. The work arrangement requires three days a week in the office, with the remaining days offering flexibility, likely allowing for remote work. This hybrid model aims to balance in-person collaboration with individual focus.
- How does OpenAI ensure that the AI developed benefits all of humanity?
- OpenAI is dedicated to ensuring that general-purpose artificial intelligence benefits all of humanity. This mission is pursued by pushing the boundaries of AI capabilities and safely deploying these advanced systems. A core tenet is the commitment to creating AI with safety and human needs at the forefront, valuing diverse perspectives and experiences to achieve this goal.
- What are the key responsibilities in managing enterprise customer relationships for advocacy at OpenAI?
- Key responsibilities include building and managing a prioritized portfolio of enterprise customer relationships for marketing and advocacy purposes. This involves identifying customers with strong outcomes and executive sponsorship, developing account-level advocacy plans, supporting executive customer programs, and acting as a central point of coordination for customer stakeholders throughout approval and publication processes.
- What kind of experience is most valuable for the Enterprise Relationship Manager role at OpenAI?
- The role values candidates with over 7 years of experience in customer marketing, customer advocacy, executive customer programs, strategic partnerships, or enterprise account leadership. Direct experience supporting Fortune 500 or global enterprise customers is highly preferred. Additionally, strong C-suite engagement skills and the ability to influence cross-functional teams without direct authority are crucial.
- How does OpenAI handle background checks for applicants, particularly concerning the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance?
- OpenAI conducts background checks in accordance with applicable law. For US-based candidates, this includes adherence to regulations like the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance, and the California Fair Chance Act. Qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records will be considered consistent with these laws.