Research Product Marketing Manager
About the Team
OpenAI's Marketing team helps people understand and use AI responsibly. We work with Research, Product, Design, Communications, and Creative to turn complex capabilities into clear stories, useful examples, and experiences that help audiences understand what the technology can do.
About the Role
As a Research Product Marketing Manager, you will help translate OpenAI's research into accurate positioning, compelling demonstrations, and launch narratives. You will work closely with researchers and product teams to understand new capabilities, the evidence behind them, and their limitations, then explain why they matter to the audiences we want to reach.
You will connect technical understanding with audience insight, carrying work from the initial brief through launch and follow-through. This is a hands-on role for a marketer who can ask precise questions, write clearly, and help teams make sound decisions as research and product plans evolve.
In this role, you will:
- Develop positioning and messaging for research capabilities and releases, grounding claims in evidence and clearly distinguishing demonstrated results from possible applications.
- Partner with researchers and product leads to understand how capabilities work, where they are useful, and what limitations or caveats audiences need to know.
- Define priority audiences and questions for each initiative. Use research, feedback, and usage signals to identify barriers to understanding and opportunities for useful adoption.
- Build launch briefs that connect the research story, audience needs, communications goals, and the work required from cross-functional partners.
- Work with Creative, Design, and technical collaborators on demonstrations, examples, and educational content that make complex ideas understandable without overstating performance.
- Coordinate messaging and launch materials with Research, Product, Communications, and other relevant review partners, keeping descriptions consistent as plans change.
- Turn audience feedback and launch results into recommendations for clearer explanations, stronger examples, and sustained education beyond the initial announcement.
- Establish measures of audience understanding, engagement, and adoption with analytical partners, and communicate findings with appropriate limits and practical next steps.
You might thrive in this role if you:
- Have experience in product marketing or a related role bringing technical products, research, or emerging capabilities to market.
- Can learn unfamiliar technical concepts, ask useful questions of subject-matter experts, and translate their answers for audiences with different levels of expertise.
- Write clear positioning, briefs, and launch materials that make a persuasive case while preserving technical accuracy and necessary nuance.
- Have taken cross-functional launches or educational programs from an ambiguous brief through delivery and measurement.
- Use qualitative research and quantitative signals to shape messaging and priorities rather than relying on assumptions about what audiences need.
- Build productive relationships with research, product, creative, and communications partners, and can align contributors without formal authority.
- Exercise sound judgment with confidential work, evolving results, and shifting timelines. Experience with AI products or research-led organizations is valuable.