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Posted 1 weeks agoCompensation Business Partner, GTM
at openai
San Francisco, United StatesHybrid
Responsibilities
- - Own benchmarking and market analysis for GTM roles, translating insights into clear recommendations and scalable practices.
Requirements
- As a member of the total rewards team, you will partner closely with GTM leaders, HR Business Partners, Recruiting, Finance, and other cross-functional teams.
- - The ability to work independently while collaborating closely with a broader team. -
- Experience with job architecture is strongly preferred.
- About OpenAI OpenAI is an AI research and deployment company dedicated to ensuring that general-purpose artificial intelligence
Benefits
- About the Team OpenAI's Compensation team plays a crucial role in rewarding and retaining world-class talent who will ensure that artificial general intelligence benefits all of humanity.
- By crafting and implementing innovative compensation strategies, we ensure our compensation offerings are competitive, equitable, and aligned with OpenAI's mission to scale intelligently and ethically.
- About the Role We are expanding our Compensation team and seeking a Compensation Business Partner to help build the compensation pillar for our go-to-market organization.
- This is a hands-on individual-contributor role for someone who brings deep GTM compensation expertise and enjoys turning evolving business needs into practical, scalable programs.
- You will spearhead compensation work across benchmarking, offer review, program design, and job architecture, with particular focus on the needs of a rapidly growing commercial organization.
- At other times, you will work alongside additional compensation partners and cross-functional resources.
- you will: - Build and evolve compensation programs that support OpenAI’s growing GTM organization.
- - Serve as a trusted compensation advisor to GTM leaders, HR Business Partners, Recruiting, and Finance.
- - Lead compensation analysis and approval for offers, balancing market context, internal consistency, and OpenAI’s compensation philosophy.
- - Partner on the design and optimization of sales compensation programs, job architecture, and related compensation frameworks.
- - Collaborate with the broader Compensation team to share insights and strengthen company-wide programs.
- You might thrive in this role if you have: - 6+ years of compensation experience, including meaningful depth supporting GTM or commercial organizations. - Strong expertise in sales compensation, GTM benchmarking, and compensation program design. -
- Experience building or materially evolving compensation programs in a fast-growing, dynamic organization.
Additional details
- The shape of the work will evolve as the business grows.
- At times, you may independently lead key initiatives from strategy through execution.
- Success in this role requires comfort operating with ambiguity, strong judgment, and a willingness to stay close to the details while building for scale.
- This is an individual contributor role, designed for a subject-matter expert and hands-on builder. In this role,
- - Develop approaches that can flex with changing business priorities, organizational growth, and new talent needs.
- - Move fluidly between strategic design and hands-on execution, including building processes and operating mechanisms where they do not yet exist.
- - A builder mindset: you are energized by ambiguity and comfortable creating structure as the business evolves.
- - Strong analytical judgment and the ability to translate complex data into practical recommendations.
- - Excellent communication skills and the ability to build trust with senior stakeholders and cross-functional partners.
- Location and Workplace This role is based in our New York or San Francisco office and we aren’t considering remote applications at this time.