Southern Europe B2B Marketing Manager

ABOUT THE TEAM Like every team at OpenAI, the Marketing team contributes directly to our mission of responsible and widespread AI adoption. The EMEA B2B Marketing team translates global priorities into regionally relevant programs that drive awareness, consideration, pipeline, adoption, and long-term customer trust. We partner closely with Sales and GTM, Product Marketing, Field and Executive Marketing, Content, Customer Marketing, Partner Marketing, Comms, Events, Marketing Operations, and regional leadership. France will be the primary focus within the Southern Europe remit. Our opportunity spans major enterprises and digital natives, ambitious startups, developers, partners, and a highly influential business community navigating the adoption of AI. ABOUT THE ROLE As Southern Europe B2B Marketing Manager, you will own the integrated B2B marketing strategy and execution for Southern Europe, with France as the primary focus. You will be a close commercial partner to local Sales and GTM leadership, translating market insight, revenue priorities, target-account needs, and global launches into locally relevant programs that create pipeline, accelerate complex opportunities, deepen customer relationships, and grow adoption. You will carry clear pipeline goals and be accountable for Marketing’s measurable contribution to commercial outcomes in Southern Europe. These goals will be established through the regional planning process and will evolve with the priorities and maturity of the market. You will be expected to understand the pipeline, make informed investment decisions, and demonstrate how marketing activity creates, influences, or accelerates revenue opportunities. This is a generalist role spanning field and executive marketing, demand generation, account-based programs, content, customer marketing, partnerships, events, and product launches. You will bring these channels together into a focused Southern Europe B2B plan, drawing on specialist capabilities within the EMEA B2B Marketing team in London and global Marketing teams. A particularly important partnership will be with the local Consumer Marketing leads: together, you will align market strategy, narratives, launches, audience priorities, channels, and major moments so B2B and B2C activity is coordinated, complementary, and mutually reinforcing. Close partnership with Marketing Operations will be crucial. Together, you will establish campaign infrastructure, audience and account segmentation, attribution, reporting, and operating rhythms that give Sales and Marketing a reliable view of performance and inform where the team should invest next. The role requires someone who can move comfortably between strategy and execution: shaping the market plan, participating in pipeline reviews, developing a priority-account program, adapting a global campaign, briefing an agency, supporting an executive event, and personally unblocking delivery when needed. Regular travel across Southern Europe, with France as the primary focus, and to London will be required. IN THIS ROLE, YOU WILL: - Own and execute the integrated Southern Europe B2B marketing plan, aligned with regional priorities, local revenue goals, market opportunities, and customer needs. Partner closely with the local Consumer Marketing leads to ensure B2B and B2C strategies and activities are coordinated and complementary, while retaining clear accountability for B2B pipeline and revenue outcomes. - Carry pipeline goals for Southern Europe B2B marketing and be accountable for demonstrating measurable contribution to pipeline creation, influence, opportunity progression, and revenue outcomes. - Partner closely with Southern Europe Sales and GTM leadership on territory planning, target-account prioritisation, pipeline goals, strategic opportunities, and quarterly business reviews. - Build full-funnel programs across field and executive marketing, demand generation, account-based marketing, content, customer advocacy, partnerships, events, and digital channels. - Design programs around priority accounts and buying groups, tailoring narratives and engagement for senior decision-makers—particularly technical C-suite audiences—and connecting customer proof, partner participation, content, and seller follow-up to create or advance opportunities. - Work in close partnership with Marketing Operations to define target audiences, establish campaigns, maintain data and process quality, track performance, improve attribution, and turn results into clear recommendations. - Build a regular Sales, Marketing, and Marketing Operations pacing rhythm covering pipeline performance, account engagement, campaign conversion, opportunity follow-up, risks, and investment decisions. - Translate global campaigns, product launches, narratives, and assets into locally relevant programs that reflect Southern Europe market dynamics, language, industry priorities, and customer expectations. - Work with EMEA specialist teams in London to bring the strongest regional capabilities into the market, while serving as the voice of Southern Europe in regional planning and prioritisation. - Develop locally relevant customer stories and advocacy opportunities in partnership with Sales, Customer Success, Customer Marketing, Comms, and senior customer stakeholders. - Build joint programs with strategic technology, consulting, and implementation partners where they can extend reach, strengthen customer value, or contribute to pipeline. - Own the operating rhythm for Southern Europe B2B marketing, including planning, budget management, agency coordination, campaign pacing, performance reporting, and prioritisation. - Build repeatable playbooks and share market learning across EMEA, helping the wider organisation understand what resonates with Southern Europe customers and decision-makers. YOU MIGHT THRIVE IN THIS ROLE IF YOU: - Have 12+ years of experience in integrated B2B, regional, field, demand generation, or