Strategic Deals & Commercial Architecture Lead — Marketplaces & PartnershipPosted today$211K–$234K

The opportunity

OpenAI’s Finance and Revenue Operations organization builds the commercial infrastructure that enables the business to scale with speed, discipline, and financial integrity.

What you'll do

  • Lead the commercial architecture and execution of complex marketplace-enabled: and partner-led enterprise transactions from intake through approval, contracting, launch readiness, and operational handoff.

  • Structure private offers, pricing, fees, incentives, commitments, revenue: share, credits, renewals, amendments, and other non-standard or multi-party terms.

  • Evaluate customer and partner value, unit economics, margin, marketplace: incentives, precedent, strategic fit, and downstream operability; recommend whether to approve, modify, pilot, or decline.

  • Trace proposed terms through contracting, approvals, booking, entitlements,: provisioning, metering, invoicing, settlement or payout, reconciliation, revenue recognition, reporting, and auditability; resolve execution gaps before signature.

  • Partner with Legal and Technical Revenue to distinguish non-negotiable risk: from workable fallbacks and translate conclusions into executable terms, approvals, and preventive controls.

  • Establish intake requirements, approval paths, guardrails, exception: handling, documentation standards, escalation criteria, launch gates, and decision ownership.

What they're looking for

  • Translate commercial requirements into workflows across CRM, CPQ, CLM,: billing, ERP, data, and marketplace systems; partner with Product and Engineering on scalable capabilities.
  • Drive alignment across senior stakeholders with clear options, quantified: tradeoffs, and executive-ready recommendations.
  • Turn recurring friction into reusable policy, playbooks, SLAs, systems: requirements, automation, enablement, and reporting.
  • Define and track transaction volume, deal cycle time, exception rates, manual: touches, launch readiness, booking or billing accuracy, and standardization opportunities.