Jobs / United States / OpenAI UK Ltd
Corporate Development, Deal Lead
OpenAI UK Ltd · 🇺🇸 San Francisco
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About the role
About the Team The Corporate Development team sits at the intersection of OpenAI’s strategy and the global AI ecosystem. Partnering closely with engineering, product, and business leaders, we analyze markets, technologies, and companies to identify opportunities that accelerate OpenAI’s mission and long-term strategy. Bringing together expertise in strategy, M&A, and integration, the team leads the end-to-end process of sourcing, evaluating, negotiating, and integrating acquisitions and other strategic transactions. About the Role The Corporate Development Deal Lead will own high-priority M&A and strategic transaction work from early evaluation through diligence, structuring, negotiation, approval, and close. This person will translate strategic priorities and market insight into actionable deal opportunities, build the business case for transactions, and drive cross-functional alignment with senior stakeholders. This is a hands-on, high-ownership role for someone who can combine strategic judgment, financial rigor, founder relationship-building, and crisp execution. The ideal candidate can lead complex transactions, partner well with executive stakeholders, and help build the AI-native systems, tools, and operating practices that allow Corp Dev to scale. This role is based in our San Francisco HQ. 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: - Lead end-to-end execution of corporate development transactions (e.g., acquisitions and strategic investments), including sourcing, diligence, valuation, structuring, negotiation, and closing. - Track and interpret key trends across AI, technology, and adjacent industries, translating the competitive and startup landscape into clear, high-impact insights for OpenAI’s leadership. - Proactively source acquisition and other opportunities by building deep relationships across the venture, startup, and incubator ecosystem. - Partner closely with internal leaders to understand OpenAI’s priorities and use external market intelligence to help shape strategy and identify where inorganic moves can accelerate it. - Collaborate cross-functionally with Product, Engineering, Legal, Finance, GTM, and executive leadership to evaluate and advance deals. - Build financial models, commercial cases, and decision-making frameworks for executive stakeholders. - Prepare and present deal materials to senior leaders. - Lead and innovate how we use AI to enhance Corp Dev processes and systems. - Partner with Integration & cross-functional peers to develop deal goals / metrics and integration plans to achieve and measure outcomes. You might thrive in this role if you have: - 12+ years of experience leading M&A or strategic transactions from start to finish - in corporate development, private equity, investment banking, venture investing, and/or product. - Deep experience analyzing emerging technologies and markets, and enjoy working directly with founders, investors, and operators. Sector and deal expertise in enterprise / B2B highly preferred. - A genuine passion for AI and its impact on the world. - Strong analytical skills combined with commercial judgment and strategic insight. - Comfort managing ambiguity, building process in a fast-moving environment, and operating with high ownership. - Clear and persuasive communication skills to influence internal and external stakeholders. - Excitement to help build and shape the Corp Dev function at a mission-driven AI company. 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 s