The Growth team’s mission is to create the best customer experience across all segments of OpenAI’s business. We draw inspiration from a diverse customer base—from individuals exploring ChatGPT for the first time to enterprises building AI-powered products for their customers. We focus on driving lasting customer and business impact, with initiatives rooted in data, experimentation, and deep customer understanding.
About the RoleWe are looking for an experienced program manager to lead and scale our outsourced vendor and sales-assist motions for SMB customers across EMEA. This role blends strategy and execution: you’ll design and optimize vendor programs, run experiments to improve conversion, and ensure revenue goals are met. You’ll collaborate closely with sales, product, revops, and vendor partners to deliver a seamless, scalable customer experience.
This role is based in Dublin, Ireland. 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:Lead SMB BPO programs: manage and optimize existing outsourced motions, ensuring vendor performance (cost efficiency, and scalability).
Launch & scale vendors: evaluate, select, and onboard new partners; define playbooks and success metrics
Own revenue targets for all EMEA vendor-assisted motions.
Run Experiments: Design and execute data-driven tests to optimize conversion funnels, vendor staffing, and handoffs between product-led and sales-assisted flows.
Standardize operations with dashboards, QA, and escalation processes to ensure consistent vendor performance across geographies.
Partner with cross-regional teams to share best practices and align strategies.
Surface insights from vendors to inform product and sales roadmaps, ensuring a better customer experience.
7+ years of experience in sales and vendor/BPO leadership.
Proven track record building and scaling outsourced partner programs from 0 to 1 and beyond.
Direct experience owning revenue goals executed via BPO or vendor partnerships.
Strong analytical, operational, and systems skills; comfort with dashboards, SLAs, and experimentation.
Experience evaluating and negotiating with vendors, launching programs, and driving measurable business outcomes.
You might thrive in this role if you:
Background in product-led sales or hybrid growth models.
Experience working with global teams.
Strong cross-functional collaboration skills; ability to work with sales, data, ops, and systems teams.
Comfort operating in ambiguous, high-growth environments while balancing startup agility with scalable processes.
Why This Role is Exciting
Shape OpenAI’s SMB growth engine and build scalable vendor programs from the ground up.
Work at the intersection of AI, product-led growth, and sales
Join a high-impact team that values data, experimentation, and creativity in solving customer problems.
About OpenAI
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