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Head of Performance Marketing

OpenAI · San Francisco · On-site

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About OpenAI

Backed by Greylock, Insight and Khosla.

About the role

We are hiring a Head of Performance Marketing to lead global paid media and investment allocation across products, audiences, and markets. You will build a global team, partnering closely with product, engineering, data science, and creative to build durable user and revenue growth strategies. Incrementality and marginal returns will guide your investment framework, delivering growth within clear economic guardrails. Found on 1752vc Careers, the job board for startup and VC roles.

What they're looking for

  • A track record of scaling performance marketing across channels and markets, delivering incremental user and revenue growth
  • Experience building global teams while staying close to campaign execution and technical detail
  • Deep paid-media expertise across audience strategy, creative testing, bidding, pacing, and optimization
  • Strong judgment in incrementality, experimentation, attribution, and customer economics, with experience translating findings into investment decisions
  • Experience personally building or deploying AI workflows and automation, including evaluating results and managing failures
  • The technical fluency and communication skills to influence senior stakeholders across Engineering, Product, Data Science, Creative, and Finance
More about this role

The Growth team drives user and revenue growth across ChatGPT’s consumer and business segments as well as other OpenAI products worldwide. We operate across the full funnel - from awareness and acquisition through activation, retention, and expansion - using a combination of global performance marketing, AI-powered workflows, in-product optimization, insights, experimentation, and creative engineering. We blend the best of human ingenuity and creativity, with deep technical and quantitative expertise.

We are hiring a Head of Performance Marketing to lead global paid media and investment allocation across products, audiences, and markets. You will build a global team, partnering closely with product, engineering, data science, and creative to build durable user and revenue growth strategies. Incrementality and marginal returns will guide your investment framework, delivering growth within clear economic guardrails.

This is a hands-on leadership role. You will bring expert campaign and measurement judgment while rethinking how performance marketing operates with AI, automation, and agents. You will both need to IC and build a team already operating at massive scale. Working across...

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