Research Product Marketing Manager

Marketing - San Francisco

About the Team

OpenAI's Marketing team helps people understand and use AI responsibly. We work with Research, Product, Design, Communications, and Creative to turn complex capabilities into clear stories, useful examples, and experiences that help audiences understand what the technology can do.

About the Role

As a Research Product Marketing Manager, you will help translate OpenAI's research into accurate positioning, compelling demonstrations, and launch narratives. You will work closely with researchers and product teams to understand new capabilities, the evidence behind them, and their limitations, then explain why they matter to the audiences we want to reach.

You will connect technical understanding with audience insight, carrying work from the initial brief through launch and follow-through. This is a hands-on role for a marketer who can ask precise questions, write clearly, and help teams make sound decisions as research and product plans evolve.

In this role, you will:

• Develop positioning and messaging for research capabilities and releases, grounding claims in evidence and clearly distinguishing demonstrated results from possible applications.
• Partner with researchers and product leads to understand how capabilities work, where they are useful, and what limitations or caveats audiences need to know.
• Define priority audiences and questions for each initiative. Use research, feedback, and usage signals to identify barriers to understanding and opportunities for useful adoption.
• Build launch briefs that connect the research story, audience needs, communications goals, and the work required from cross-functional partners.
• Work with Creativeance.
• Coordinate messaging and launch materials with Research, Product, Communications, and other relevant review partners, keeping descriptions consistent as plans change.
• Turn audience feedback and launch results into recommendations for clearer explanations, stronger examples, and sustained education beyond the initial announcement.
• Establish measures of audience understanding, engagement, and adoption with analytical partners, and communicate findings with appropriate limits and practical next steps.

You might thrive in this role if you:

• Have experience in product marketing or a related role bringing technical products, research, or emerging capabilities to market.
• Can learn unfamiliar technical concepts, ask useful questions of subject-matter experts, and translate their answers for audiences with different levels of expertise.
• Write clear positioning, briefs, and launch materials that make a persuasive case while preserving technical accuracy and necessary nuance.
• Have taken cross-functional launches or educational programs from an ambiguous brief through delivery and measurement.
• Use qualitative research and quantitative signals to shape messaging and priorities rather than relying on assumptions about what audiences need.
• Build productive relationships with researchal authority.
• Exercise sound judgment with confidential work, evolving results, and shifting timelines. Experience with AI products or research-led organizations is valuable.

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 the full spectrum of humanity.

We are an equal opportunity employeration, or other applicable legally protected characteristic.

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At OpenAI, we believe artificial intelligence has the potential to help people solve immense global challenges, and we want the upside of AI to be widely shared. Join us in shaping the future of technology.

Compensation

$227K – $252K + Offers Equity

The base pay offered may vary depending on multiple individualized factorsance-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.