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Product Marketing Manager, Advertising

OpenAI openai.com Open · verified Sep 16, 2026
San Francisco Full-time Manager Product Marketing

Mid-level Product Marketing role at OpenAI. San Francisco · full-time · $225,000–$250,000 base.

SalaryStated by OpenAI
$225,000 – $250,000
Base salary for this role, in USD per year, as published in the posting.
This role, from OpenAIOur estimate for the market: $158,750–$204,375
Above the market median of $178,750 for mid-level product marketing roles in San Francisco.
Worked out from 54 postings that stated pay, median $178,750. Last updated Sep 16, 2026.
Role brief

Growth Roles summary, based on the employer's posting.

What you'll do

  • Set strategy for part of the advertising business with product, engineering, sales, and partnerships
  • Research advertisers, markets, and competitors to uncover opportunities for stronger positioning and adoption
  • Shape product messaging that makes complex AI capabilities clear for different advertiser audiences
  • Run launches from planning through release and continued adoption, including content and sales enablement
  • Track launch results, surface safety and trust risks, and keep partners aligned on priorities and timelines

What you bring

  • Experience setting product marketing strategy and taking products to market, especially in advertising, marketing technology, platforms, data, or AI
  • A working understanding of advertising, including measurement, targeting, relevance, creative, auctions, and performance tradeoffs
  • The ability to turn customer research and market evidence into positioning, launch plans, and product recommendations
  • Strong communication, analytical judgment, and structured problem solving in ambiguous situations
  • Experience influencing Product, Engineering, Sales, and other teams without formal authority

Who this fits

You’ll thrive if you enjoy combining strategic planning with hands-on execution and can work independently through ambiguity. The role suits someone who can translate technical ideas into advertiser value, use qualitative and quantitative evidence, and bring cross-functional teams into alignment. It is a full-time position based in San Francisco.

From the employer

About the team

OpenAI’s mission is to ensure the responsible and widespread adoption of artificial intelligence. In support of that mission, the Marketing team helps deeply understand customer audiences and market dynamics, influence the development of the right products, build sustainable and customer-aligned monetization models, and drive awareness, adoption, and usage across OpenAI’s products and platform.

We take a data-driven approach to understand markets, develop monetization strategies, and uncover customer needs that shape product strategy and messaging. We partner closely with Sales, Partnerships, Product, Engineering, Research, Comms, and Design to deliver a cohesive end-to-end customer experience and lead go-to-market efforts for new product launches across channels.

About the role

We’re looking for a Product Marketing Manager, Advertising to bring together advertiser insights, market understanding, and product knowledge to shape positioning, inform product priorities, and deliver go-to-market initiatives that drive adoption and measurable business impact.

You’ll work closely with Product, Engineering, Sales, and Partnerships to understand advertiser needs, translate complex AI capabilities into clear customer value, and bring new products and features to market. This role is ideal for someone who combines strategic thinking with hands-on execution, independently navigates ambiguity, and brings cross-functional partners together to deliver results.

In this role you will:

  • Define the product and marketing strategy for a component of OpenAI’s advertising business in partnership with cross-functional partners

  • Develop a deep understanding of advertisers through customer research, market analysis, and competitive insights, identifying opportunities to improve positioning, adoption, and product-market fit.

  • Own positioning and messaging for your product area, translating complex capabilities into compelling narratives for different advertiser audiences and use cases.

  • Partner with Product and Engineering to bring advertiser needs and market insights into roadmap discussions and product decisions.

  • Develop and drive go-to-market plans for new products and features, owning marketing execution from planning through launch and ongoing adoption.

  • Create advertiser-facing content and sales enablement materials, including product narratives, sales decks, one-pagers, FAQs, and launch communications.

  • Partner with Sales, Partnerships, Data Science, and Analytics to define success metrics, assess launch and adoption performance, and turn findings into improvements.

  • Surface advertiser concerns and launch risks related to performance, safety, policy, and trust, working with the relevant teams to address them in launch plans and customer communications.

  • Align cross-functional partners around priorities, responsibilities, and timelines, making thoughtful tradeoffs and resolving blockers within your initiatives.

  • Build repeatable approaches to launches, messaging, and enablement, sharing learnings and mentoring peers to improve the team’s storytelling and execution.

You might be a great fit if you…

  • Have experience independently developing product and marketing strategies and bringing products to market, particularly in advertising, marketing technology, platforms, or data and AI.

  • Have experience in structured problem solving environments including but not limited to strategy/management consulting, investment banking, corporate strategy and venture capital

  • Understand advertiser goals and the advertising ecosystem, including measurement, targeting and relevance, creative, auctions, and performance tradeoffs.

  • Can turn customer research and market insights into clear positioning, actionable go-to-market plans, and recommendations that inform product priorities.

  • Communicate clearly and persuasively, translating technical concepts into differentiated customer value for a range of audiences.

  • Use qualitative and quantitative evidence—including customer interviews, surveys, adoption data, and experiments—to make decisions and improve results.

  • Bring structured problem solving and strong judgment to ambiguous challenges, independently setting priorities and managing initiatives from strategy through execution.

  • Build effective partnerships across Product, Engineering, Sales, and other teams, influencing decisions and driving alignment without formal authority.

  • Enjoy improving how teams work, sharing your expertise, and helping peers strengthen their craft.

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.

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