OpenAI is hiring engineers, not ad sellers, first to build its ad business
By Krystal Scanlon OpenAI is still in the foothills of building an ads business, and it’s looking for ad execs to help map the climb. The The roles posted since the turn of the year make clear just how early and foundational the effort is.
There are no ad sales chiefs with deep agency relationships, no account managers or creative strategists. Instead, most of the seven open roles focused on advertising are far more basic: engineers tasked with building monetization infrastructure, ad delivery and the internal tools needed to connect paid advertising to OpenAI’s products.
In fact, the closest things to traditional ad revenue roles are a strategic global partnership and ecosystem lead and a head of sales industries. Even those positions are more focused on designing the commercial ecosystem around OpenAI than knocking on agency doors.Continue reading this article on digiday.com. Sign up for Digiday newsletters to get the latest on media, marketing and the future of TV. …read more
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