VC Partnerships Lead, APAC

About the team OpenAI’s mission is to ensure that artificial general intelligence benefits all of humanity. This long-term undertaking brings together the world’s best scientists, engineers, and business professionals into one organization. In pursuit of this mission, our Go To Market (GTM) team is responsible for helping customers learn how to leverage and deploy our highly capable AI products across their business. The team is made of Sales, Solutions, Support, Marketing, and Partnership professionals that work together to create valuable solutions that will help bring AI to as many users as possible. About the role OpenAI is seeking a VC Partnerships Lead to join our Startups team in Asia-Pacific. In this role, you will build and manage senior relationships with leading venture capital funds, accelerators, and startup ecosystem partners, with the goal of helping high-potential startups adopt and scale with OpenAI’s products. Many of the most important AI-native companies will be built by startups. You will work with investors, founders, and internal OpenAI teams to identify promising companies, support their technical and commercial success, and create repeatable programs that expand OpenAI’s reach across the regional startup ecosystem. Success in this role requires a distinctive combination of ecosystem credibility, commercial judgment, technical fluency, and operational ri