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We work cross-functionally across Sales, Solutions, Product, Engineering, Security, Legal, Finance, Marketing, Operations, and Customer Success to translate strategic partnerships into measurable outcomes for customers.\nGlobal systems integrators and technology services partners help enterprises move from AI strategy to production deployment. This role will lead OpenAI’s global partnership with NTT DATA, bringing together its consulting, technology services, systems integration, and delivery capabilities with OpenAI’s products and platform. You will build the strategy, executive alignment, and operating model needed to turn the partnership into repeatable customer and commercial impact across regions and industries.\nAbout the Role\nWe are hiring a Partner Director, Global NTT Data to serve as the single accountable owner of OpenAI’s strategic relationship with NTT Data globally. You will define the partnership strategy and joint business plan, build trusted executive relationships, and activate NTT Data’s regional, industry, sales, technical, and delivery organizations to accelerate enterprise AI adoption.\nThis is a strategic and hands-on leadership role with responsibility for the health, performance, and long-term expansion of the partnership. You will move between senior executive engagement, joint account and opportunity strategy, solution development, field enablement, governance, and day-to-day execution. You will align global priorities with regional execution and help customers move from initial AI strategy through secure implementation, production adoption, and expansion.\nThe ideal candidate has led a global alliance with NTT Data or a comparable systems integrator, delivered measurable pipeline and customer outcomes, and built operating models that connect executive commitments to field behavior and successful deployments. You will bring commercial discipline, technical fluency, and the ability to align complex organizations while remaining accountable for results.\nIn this role, you will:\nOwn the global NTT Data partnership, including alliance strategy, executive alignment, joint planning, pipeline growth, customer outcomes, delivery quality, and multi-year expansion.\n\nDevelop and execute a joint business plan with clear priorities, investments, decision rights, regional responsibilities, milestones, and measures of success.\n\nServe as OpenAI’s senior counterpart to NTT Data’s global and regional leadership. Build relationships across industry practices, consulting, sales, technology, alliance, and delivery teams to set priorities and resolve escalations.\n\nTranslate global partnership strategy into coordinated regional execution, working with OpenAI partner sales and account teams to establish clear ownership and consistent field engagement.\n\nLead joint account mapping, opportunity qualification, and strategic customer pursuits, aligning OpenAI and NTT Data teams around differentiated customer value and measurable commercial outcomes.\n\nShape joint solutions and industry-specific transformation offerings that combine OpenAI capabilities with NTT Data’s consulting, integration, application, data, cloud, and managed services expertise.\n\nEngage with senior customer executives alongside NTT Data leaders to connect AI strategy, business priorities, implementation plans, and long-term value realization.\n\nCreate repeatable co-sell and delivery motions covering seller engagement, technical discovery, solution validation, delivery handoffs, production readiness, and customer expansion.\n\nPartner with Product, Engineering, Solutions, Security, Legal, Finance, and Customer Success to remove technical, contractual, compliance, and operational blockers across priority engagements.\n\nBuild partner capability through field enablement, technical readiness, reusable solution patterns, and clear expectations for implementation quality and customer success.\n\nEstablish executive governance, business reviews, pipeline inspection, forecasting, performance reporting, and escalation mechanisms that create accountability across both organizations.\n\nDefine and monitor partnership KPIs, including qualified pipeline, conversion, revenue, production adoption, customer value, partner readiness, delivery quality, and return on OpenAI investment.\n\nPrioritize OpenAI resources across joint opportunities based on strategic alignment, commercial potential, customer impact, delivery readiness, and repeatability.\n\nWork with relevant teams to establish clear standards for security, responsible AI deployment, intellectual property, and quality across joint engagements and co-developed assets.\n\nRepresent OpenAI in senior partner, customer, and industry engagements, and help build the team capacity and operating model needed to scale the global alliance over time.\n\nYou might thrive in this role if you have:\nSignificant experience leading strategic alliances, global systems integrator partnerships, ecosystem sales, business development, or enterprise GTM programs in AI, cloud, data, SaaS, or enterprise technology.\n\nDeep familiarity with NTT DATA or a comparable global technology services organization, including its organizational structure, commercial incentives, regional decision-making, and enterprise delivery model.\n\nProven ownership of global, multi-year strategic partnerships with executive accountability and measurable pipeline, revenue, adoption, deployment, or customer outcomes.\n\nExperience designing and scaling joint operating models across large, matrixed organizations, including governance, account planning, resource allocation, enablement, delivery handoffs, and escalation.\n\nDemonstrated success shaping and advancing complex enterprise transformation opportunities, engaging senior executives, and navigating procurement, security, legal, and implementation requirements.\n\nStrong executive presence and the ability to earn trust with global partner leaders and customer executives while remaining close to commercial and operating details.\n\nCommercial judgment and experience qualifying opportunities, managing forecasts, prioritizing investments, and making clear tradeoffs across regions, industries, and customer segments.\n\nTechnical fluency across enterprise AI, data, cloud and hybrid environments, integration, security, governance, and modern application architectures.\n\nExperience translating technology capabilities into differentiated industry solutions and repeatable partner-led customer engagements.\n\nStrong cross-functional leadership and the ability to align Sales, Solutions, Product, Engineering, Security, Legal, Finance, Marketing, Operations, and external partner teams without direct authority.\n\nPrior people leadership experience, with the ability to coach others, develop talent, and build team capacity as the partnership scales.\n\nExcellent written and verbal communication, negotiation, and executive presentation skills, with the ability to work effectively across regions and cultures.\n\nA builder mindset, high ownership, low ego, and comfort creating structure and momentum in an evolving environment while maintaining a consistent focus on customer value and responsible AI adoption.\n\nWhat success looks like:\nOpenAI and NTT Data have a clear global partnership strategy, differentiated joint value proposition, executive governance model, and measurable business plan.\n\nGlobal and regional teams operate with clear responsibilities, shared priorities, and consistent co-sell and delivery motions.\n\nThe partnership generates qualified pipeline and converts priority opportunities into secure production deployments with demonstrable customer value.\n\nJoint solutions and industry offerings become repeatable across accounts and regions, supported by growing partner sales and delivery readiness.\n\nOpenAI resources are directed toward the highest-impact opportunities, and the alliance delivers sustained customer adoption and commercial growth.\n\nAbout OpenAI\nOpenAI 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.\nWe 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.\nFor additional information, please see OpenAI’s Affirmative Action and Equal Employment Opportunity Policy Statement.\nBackground 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. 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