Developer Marketing Lead, India

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About the Role
We are seeking an experienced India Developer Marketing Lead to build OpenAI's India strategy for developer audiences. This is a senior role for a marketer who understands technical audiences, can translate global developer priorities into India-relevant programs, and knows how to earn builder trust through useful education, credible storytelling, strong launches, and high-quality ecosystem activation.

The role will prioritize developers while supporting startup marketing where builder and founder ecosystems naturally overlap. That includes technical founders, startup builders, founder-developer communities, startup ecosystem moments, and programs that help high-potential startups discover and build on OpenAI. The ideal candidate brings strong developer marketing experience, India market judgment, and the ability to partner closely with Developer Relations, Product Marketing, Product, Growth, Startups, Partnerships, Content, Events, and India/APAC marketing teams.

The role will be based in Bangalore.

In this role, you will:

• Lead India developer marketing strategy across priority audiences, channels, communities, cities, and product moments.

• Build programs that improve developer awareness, education, product understanding, adoption, and advocacy.

• Translate global developer launches and narratives into India-relevant activation plans.

• Partner with Developer Relations and technical stakeholders to ensure programs are credible, useful, and grounded in builder needs.

• Develop repeatable India plays across content, technical education, developer events, hackathons, builder workshops, community moments, ecosystem partnerships, and builder stories.

• Support startup marketing initiatives where startup and developer audiences overlap, including technical founders, startup builders, startup ecosystem moments, founder-led proof points, and programs that create adoption with early-stage builders, while keeping the core mandate centered on developers.

• Establish clear operating rhythms, prioritization, measurement, and feedback loops with global, India, and APAC partners.

• Bring India developer insight, market nuance, and ecosystem opportunities into global planning.

You might thrive in this role if you have:

• 10+ years of experience in developer marketing, technical marketing, product marketing for developer products, community-led technology marketing, or integrated marketing for technical platforms.

• Proven track record building credible marketing programs for developer audiences.

• Experience leading India-market or multi-city programs across launches, education, content, events, community, and ecosystem channels.

• Strong cross-functional experience with Developer Relations, Product, Product Marketing, Growth, Startups, Partnerships, and India/APAC marketing stakeholders.

• Ability to work across strategic planning and hands-on execution in fast-moving, ambiguous environments.

• Strong communication, prioritization, and stakeholder management skills.

• Clear understanding of how developer trust, technical usefulness, and product adoption connect.

Nice to have:

• Experience with AI, APIs, developer platforms, cloud tooling, or applied AI ecosystems.

• Familiarity with India developer communities, technical events, startup ecosystems, accelerators, investors, and founder-builder channels.

• Experience working across developer and startup audience overlap, including builder programs, founder storytelling, or startup ecosystem activations.

OpenAI is an equal opportunity employer and we value thoughtful builders who bring curiosity, rigor, and care to complex work. If you are excited to help developers across India discover, learn, and build with OpenAI, we would love to hear from you.

About OpenAI

OpenAI is an AI research and deployment company dedicated to ensuring that general-purpose artificial intelligence benefits all of humanity. We push the boundaries of the capabilities of AI systems and seek to safely deploy them to the world through our products. AI is an extremely powerful tool that must be created with safety and human needs at its core, and to achieve our mission, we must encompass and value the many different perspectives, voices, and experiences that form the full spectrum of humanity. 

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