OpenAI Strategic Partnerships Lead

Working at CreateFuture CreateFuture is a Version 1 company and AI-native consulting partner where people do work that matters and are supported to do it well. We work alongside organisations such as PayPal, adidas, NatWest, FanDuel and Money Saving Expert, building digital products and services that make a difference while always putting people first. We’re a team of creators. We write code, shape delivery, build go-to-market strategies, develop AI solutions and create the practices that support our people. We work side by side with our clients, challenging what’s not working and helping them to build the future. Our commitment to craft, quality, and culture has helped us scale to over 600 people in just a few years. Our UK Benefits 35 days leave (including bank holidays). Private medical insurance. Enhanced parental and adoption leave. Financial coaching + 5% pension match. 40 hours of paid learning and development. View our full list of UK benefits. CreateFuture is a Great Place to Work-Certified™ company and has won Best Workplaces UK multiple years in a row. Join us on our journey. Let’s create tomorrow, together, today. About the role and team: OpenAI is one of CreateFuture’s most strategically important technology partnerships, and we’re looking for someone exceptional to help us realise its potential. This is an opportunity to take ownership of a partnership at an unusually exciting point in its development. OpenAI’s partner ecosystem is evolving quickly as it develops how it works with consulting and technology partners around the world. At the same time, our clients are increasingly looking to CreateFuture to help them understand and realise the potential of AI. We want someone who can bring those two worlds together. You’ll work directly with CreateFuture’s CEO, executive sponsor and Partnerships team to drive our OpenAI strategy, build relationships across OpenAI’s GTM organisation and create commercial opportunities for both organisations. There isn’t an established playbook to follow. You’ll help us build it. What you’ll be doing: You’ll be the day-to-day owner of CreateFuture’s relationship with OpenAI, responsible for turning our strategic ambition into action and commercial results. You’ll: Build strong relationships across OpenAI’s partner, sales, GTM and industry teams Develop and execute our OpenAI partnership plan alongside our CEO, executive sponsor and Partnerships team Understand where OpenAI is focused and identify where CreateFuture can add value Proactively create partner-sourced and partner-influenced opportunities Connect OpenAI teams with the right CreateFuture clients, capabilities and industry expertise Develop practical co-selling and go-to-market activity across shared accounts, propositions, campaigns and events Mobilise our Commercial, Industry, Technology, Presales, Marketing and Delivery teams around the partnership Drive the capabilities,…