Head of Growth GSIs - Cognizant Infosys & Wipro
OpenAI
Sales & Business Development
San Francisco, CA, USA
Location
San Francisco
Employment Type
Full time
Location Type
Hybrid
Department
Go To Market
Compensation
- Esitmated Annual Salary $378K – $500K • Offers Equity
The base pay offered may vary depending on multiple individualized factors, including market location, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. If the role is non-exempt, overtime pay will be provided consistent with applicable laws. 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.
About the Team
OpenAI’s GTM Partnerships team builds a strategic, global partner ecosystem to accelerate customer success, enable enterprise AI adoption, and drive durable growth in support of OpenAI’s mission toward AGI. We work cross-functionally across Product, Engineering, Security, Legal, and GTM to deliver strong partner outcomes through disciplined strategy and execution.
This role sits within Partnerships/GTM and will lead OpenAI’s strategy and execution with Global Systems Integrators such as Cognizant, Infosys and Wipro. These partnerships are critical to helping enterprise customers adopt, implement, and scale OpenAI’s products through trusted advisory, transformation, and delivery channels.
This role will be hybrid based in our San Francisco office.
About the Role
We are hiring a Head of Growth GSIs - Cognizant Infosys & Wipro to lead and scale OpenAI’s partnerships with Global Systems Integrators. You will be responsible for building strategic relationships with leading GSI partners, translating shared priorities into scalable partnership motions, and driving customer adoption through joint go-to-market, solution development, and delivery enablement.
This leader will operate as the single accountable owner for a portfolio of high-impact GSI partnerships, setting direction, establishing operating cadence, and aligning internal and partner stakeholders to deliver measurable business outcomes. Success in this role requires strong executive presence, sound judgment, and the ability to navigate complex, global, cross-functional partnerships across GTM, product, solutions, legal, security, and partner organizations.
In this role, you will:
Own and grow OpenAI’s strategic partnerships with International GSIs, with accountability for partnership health, adoption, revenue impact, and long-term growth.
Define the partnership strategy and priorities for GSIs, including joint business plans, goals, execution roadmaps, and success metrics.
Establish and run a durable operating model, including governance, executive alignment, escalation paths, business reviews, and execution cadence.
Build and drive joint GTM plans with Sales, Solutions, and Marketing teams, including field enablement, solution positioning, demand generation, and coordinated customer execution.
Partner with Solutions, Product, and Engineering teams to identify repeatable enterprise use cases, delivery motions, and implementation patterns that help customers successfully adopt OpenAI products at scale.
Collaborate with Security, Legal, Privacy, and Commercial teams to ensure appropriate trust, compliance, and commercial frameworks for partner-led work.
Enable GSI partners to build OpenAI expertise across advisory, implementation, transformation, and managed services practices.
Track performance against clear metrics, identify bottlenecks, and drive continuous improvement across partnerships, programs, and field execution.
Represent OpenAI with senior partner executives, driving alignment, resolving issues, and expanding partnership scope over time.
Travel regularly to international locations such as India
You might thrive in this role if you have:
Significant experience leading strategic GSI, alliances, or channel partnerships in enterprise software, cloud, consulting, or AI.
Deep familiarity with Global Systems Integrators and how they operate across global enterprise customers, transformation programs, and delivery organizations.
A track record building and scaling partnerships from early-stage strategy through executive alignment, field activation, delivery enablement, and measurable business impact.
Strong technical and product fluency, with the ability to partner effectively with Solutions, Product, Engineering, and Security teams without needing to be the hands-on implementer.
Experience navigating enterprise requirements related to security, privacy, governance, compliance, and commercial models in partner-led initiatives.
Exceptional cross-functional leadership and the ability to drive alignment across Sales/GTM, Solutions, Product, Engineering, Legal, and partner organizations.
Strong executive presence, negotiation capability, and comfort operating in fast-moving, ambiguous environments.
Clear, concise communication skills with experience producing decision-ready memos, joint plans, executive updates, and partnership business reviews.
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.
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Compensation Range: $378K - $500K