Partner Director, EY North America

About the Team

OpenAI's GTM Partnerships team builds a strategic, global partner ecosystem to accelerate customer success, enable responsible enterprise AI adoption, and drive durable growth. We work cross-functionally across Sales, Solutions, Product, Engineering, Security, Legal, Finance, Marketing, Operations, and Customer Success to translate strategic partnerships into measurable outcomes for customers. Global advisory and consulting partners help enterprises move from AI strategy to production deployment. This role will lead OpenAI's partnership with EY across North America.

About the Role

We are hiring a Partner Director, EY North America to lead OpenAI's partner business with EY across the region. You will own the North America joint business plan, build executive alignment, and activate EY and OpenAI field teams to generate qualified pipeline, win strategic opportunities, and drive successful production adoption. This is a strategic and hands-on leadership role connecting senior executive engagement with joint account planning, co-selling, solution and delivery alignment, field enablement, governance, and day-to-day execution.

In this role, you will:

• Own North America partnership with EY, including regional strategy, executive alignment, joint planning, pipeline growth, customer outcomes, delivery quality, and long-term expansion.
• Develop and execute a North America joint business plan with clear account and industry priorities, investments, decision rights, milestones, and measures of success.
• Build trusted relationships with EY's North America leadership, senior partners, industry and consulting practice leaders, alliance teams, client account leaders, technical teams, and delivery leaders.
• Translate executive priorities into repeatable field execution spanning account mapping, opportunity qualification, co-selling, solution development, technical engagement, delivery handoffs, and escalation.
• Shape joint solutions and industry plays that combine OpenAI products and capabilities with EY's business transformation, technology consulting, data, risk, governance, and delivery strengths.
• Lead joint account planning and strategic customer pursuits with EY and OpenAI field teams across North America, with particular focus on complex and regulated enterprises.
• Create a clear engagement model for OpenAI sellers and technical teams, including when to involve EY, how opportunities are qualified, who owns each step, and how channel conflict is resolved.
• Partner with Product, Engineering, Solutions, Security, Legal, Finance, and Commercial teams to support complex customer engagements and remove technical, contractual, compliance, and operational blockers.
• Build EY's North America field and delivery readiness through executive sponsorship, sales enablement, technical training, reusable solution patterns, and disciplined delivery handoffs.
• Establish regional governance across executive business reviews, pipeline inspection, forecasting, milestone tracking, performance reporting, and escalation.
• Set and monitor North America partnership KPIs, including qualified pipeline, conversion, production adoption, customer value, partner readiness, delivery quality, and return on OpenAI investment.
• Prioritize OpenAI resources for North America opportunities with the greatest strategic value, commercial potential, customer impact, delivery readiness, and repeatability.
• Represent OpenAI in senior partner, customer, and industry engagements with clarity, sound judgment, and strong executive presence.
• Build the regional operating model and identify the team capacity needed to scale the EY partnership across North America.

You might thrive in this role if you have:

• Significant experience leading strategic alliances, GSI, or advisory partnerships, ecosystem sales, business development, or enterprise go-to-market programs in AI, cloud, data, SaaS, or enterprise technology.
• Direct experience working with EY and deep familiarity with its North America organization, partner economics, decision-making networks, commercial model, industry and consulting practices, and enterprise delivery motions.
• A proven record of leading a multi-year partnership or regional alliance business with measurable pipeline, revenue, adoption, deployment, or customer outcomes.
• Experience designing and scaling joint operating models across large, matrixed organizations, including governance, account planning, incentives, staffing, delivery handoffs, and escalation.
• Demonstrated success shaping and advancing complex C-suite enterprise transformation opportunities from strategy through production deployment.
• Strong executive presence and the ability to build credibility with senior EY and customer leaders while remaining close to operating details.
• Commercial judgment and experience prioritizing investments, qualifying opportunities, managing forecasts, and making clear tradeoffs.
• Technical fluency across enterprise AI, cloud environments, data platforms, security, governance, risk, and modern application architectures.
• Strong cross-functional leadership and the ability to align Sales, Solutions, Product, Engineering, Security, Legal, Finance, Marketing, and Operations without direct authority.
• Experience building partner enablement, joint solutions, industry plays, and scalable field engagement models across North America.
• Comfort operating in ambiguity and creating structure, accountability, and momentum in a rapidly evolving market.
• Excellent written and verbal communication, negotiation, and executive presentation skills.
• A builder mindset, high ownership, low ego, and a consistent focus on customer value and responsible AI adoption.