Compensation Business Partner, GTM

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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.

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. 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.

The shape of the work will evolve as the business grows. At times, you may independently lead key initiatives from strategy through execution. At other times, you will work alongside additional compensation partners and cross-functional resources. 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.

Responsibilities

• 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.
• Own benchmarking and market analysis for GTM roles, translating insights into clear recommendations and scalable practices.
• Partner on the design and optimization of sales compensation programs, job architecture, and related compensation frameworks.
• 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.
• Collaborate with the broader Compensation team to share insights and strengthen company-wide programs.

Requirements

• 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.
• 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.
• The ability to work independently while collaborating closely with a broader team.
• Experience with job architecture is strongly preferred.

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. We use a hybrid work model of 3 days in the office with optional work from home on Thursdays and Fridays. We also offer relocation assistance to new employees.

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.

Benefits

In addition to the salary range listed above, total compensation also includes generous equity, performance-related bonus(es) for eligible employees, and the following benefits:

• Medical, dental, and vision insurance for you and your family, with employer contributions to Health Savings Accounts
• Pre-tax accounts for Health FSA, Dependent Care FSA, and commuter expenses (parking and transit)
• 401(k) retirement plan with employer match
• Paid parental leave (up to 24 weeks for birth parents and 20 weeks for non-birthing parents), plus paid medical and caregiver leave (up to 8 weeks)
• Paid time off: flexible PTO for exempt employees and up to 15 days annually for non-exempt employees
• 13+ paid company holidays, and multiple paid coordinated company office closures throughout the year for focus and recharge, plus paid sick or safe time (1 hour per 30 hours worked, or more, as required by applicable state or local law)
• Mental health and wellness support
• Employer-paid basic life and disability coverage
• Annual learning and development stipend to fuel your professional growth
• Daily meals in our offices, and meal delivery credits as eligible
• Relocation support for eligible employees
• Additional taxable fringe benefits, such as charitable donation matching and wellness stipends, may also be provided.

More details about our benefits are available to candidates during the hiring process.

This role is at-will and OpenAI reserves the right to modify base pay and other compensation components at any time based on individual performance, team or company results, or market conditions.