Partner Director, ANZ

About the Team The GTM Partnerships team is responsible for building a best in class, partner ecosystem in Australia that makes our customers successful, supports the company's mission of reaching AGI, and impacts the revenue growth of the company. About the Role We are hiring a partner director to operationalize, activate, and manage strategic partner relationships in Australia - owning the journey from contract signature to full-scale execution. This role will own all aspects of the partner lifecycle in Australia, from selecting the appropriate potential partners, assessing their alignment with our requirements, onboarding newly signed partners, driving enablement, coordinating joint solution development, and ensuring commercial activation. You will be the connective tissue between OpenAI and the partner’s delivery, technical, and sales organizations to ensure the partnership delivers results. This role will report to the APAC Partnerships Lead in Singapore, and this role will be based in Sydney, Australia. We use a hybrid work model of 3 days in the office per week and offer relocation assistance to new employees. In this role you will: Own the day-to-day relationship with all signed services partners in Australia, acting as the single point of contact across enablement, solutioning, and GTM execution. Drive and manage onboarding across workstreams including sales training, technical enablement, security and provisioning, and support operations. Ensure partner readiness to deploy and resell OpenAI solutions, through shared project plans, milestone tracking, and joint QBRs. Orchestrate co-developed solutions by collaborating with partners to define use cases, create demo assets, and localize technical documentation. Monitor partner performance , flag risks early, and drive structured remediation or acceleration plans as needed. Coordinate across OpenAI teams including Sales, Solution Engineering, Enablement, Operations, Customer Success, and Marketing to ensure partner needs are met and internal alignment is maintained. Establish operational rhythms such as roadmap briefings, asset distribution, and sales enablement refreshes. Ensure compliance with partnership agreements , including commercial terms, dedicated personnel commitments, and reporting cadences. You might thrive in this role if you have: 7+ years of experience in alliances, partner success, or sales in enterprise software or systems integration environments. Deep experience in partner onboarding and activation, ideally with hyperscale cloud or enterprise SaaS vendor, boutique consulting firms, large regional SIs and technology consultants. Strong program management skills with the ability to track multiple workstreams and hold cross-functional stakeholders accountable. Familiarity with the Australian enterprise ecosystem and an ability to manage relationships across both local and global partner teams. Experience working at the early stage at a high growth company, where programs ar