Research Product Marketing Manager

OpenAI•San Francisco, CA
•$227,000 - $252,000

About The Position

As a Research Product Marketing Manager, you will translate OpenAI research into accurate positioning, compelling demonstrations, and launch narratives. You will work with researchers and product teams to understand emerging capabilities, supporting evidence, and limitations, and explain their importance to relevant audiences. This hands-on role connects technical understanding with audience insight and spans work from initial briefs through launch and follow-through. You will collaborate across research, product, creative, design, communications, and analytical teams to develop messaging and materials, measure audience understanding and adoption, and recommend improvements as plans and results evolve.

Requirements

  • Experience in product marketing or a related role bringing technical products, research, or emerging capabilities to market.
  • Ability to learn unfamiliar technical concepts, ask useful questions of subject-matter experts, and explain answers to audiences with different levels of expertise.
  • Strong writing skills for positioning, briefs, and launch materials that are persuasive, technically accurate, and appropriately nuanced.
  • Experience taking cross-functional launches or educational programs from an ambiguous brief through delivery and measurement.
  • Ability to use qualitative research and quantitative signals to shape messaging and priorities.
  • Ability to build productive relationships with research, product, creative, and communications partners and align contributors without formal authority.
  • Sound judgment when working with confidential information, evolving results, and shifting timelines.

Nice To Haves

  • Experience with AI products or research-led organizations.

Responsibilities

  • Develop evidence-grounded positioning and messaging for research capabilities and releases, distinguishing demonstrated results from possible applications.
  • Partner with researchers and product leads to understand capabilities, use cases, limitations, and relevant caveats.
  • Define priority audiences and questions; use research, feedback, and usage signals to identify barriers to understanding and opportunities for adoption.
  • Build launch briefs connecting the research story, audience needs, communications goals, and cross-functional work.
  • Collaborate with Creative, Design, and technical partners on demonstrations, examples, and educational content that explain complex ideas accurately.
  • Coordinate messaging and launch materials with Research, Product, Communications, and other reviewers, maintaining consistency as plans change.
  • Use audience feedback and launch results to recommend clearer explanations, stronger examples, and continued education after announcements.
  • Establish measures of audience understanding, engagement, and adoption with analytical partners, and communicate findings, limitations, and practical next steps.
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