Technical Sustainability Specialist – North America

About the team The OpenAI for Government team partners with federal, state, local, defense, national security, and international public-sector organizations to securely and responsibly adopt frontier AI, strengthen public services, and deliver meaningful mission impact. About the role OpenAI is seeking a strategic and deeply technical leader to serve as the Head of Government Technical Success. This leader will oversee the technical functions across the government customer lifecycle, spanning pre-sales engagement, prototype-to-production delivery, and post-sales adoption and value realization. You will define and operate a unified technical success strategy across federal civilian, defense and national security, state and local, international public sector, and industry partners. Your mission is to help customers identify the highest value applications of OpenAI’s technology, navigate the technical and organizational requirements of government environments, move those applications into production, and scale adoption in ways that deliver measurable mission impact. This role combines organizational leadership, technical judgment, executive customer engagement, operating rigor, and product influence. You will partner closely with Government Sales, Product, Engineering, Research, Security, Legal, Global Affairs and Policy, and other teams to ensure a seamless customer experience for governments in the United States and around the world. This role is based in Washington, DC. We offer relocation support to new employees. In this role, you will Set and continuously refine the strategy, operating model, and priorities for Government Technical Success, aligning the organization to OpenAI’s broader objectives and the distinct needs of government customers. Build and lead an organization of technical success personnel, including hiring, organizational design, manager development, career growth, and high standards for technical and customer-facing excellence. Create a seamless

About the Team OpenAI’s AI Success Engineer team partners with the world’s most ambitious government & partner organizations to translate cutting edge AI into real business and mission impact for governments of all levels from Local, State, Federal, and International. We guide customers and users journey from the first time they try ChatGPT Enterprise, automate a workflow, develop and execute a new skill, and create their first agent to scaled enterprise adoption of ChatGPT, Codex, our API and other novel capabilities. Our work spans technical integration and enablement, workflow transformation, inspiring and upskilling AI literacy and confidence across the workforce, sustained program, product and new capability delivery. Most importantly, we help each member of our customer's workforce, their teams, programs and missions meet their total potential. Our government customers have vital missions, and we must meet them with game-changing technology. Every engagement is an opportunity to shape how AI changes work, productivity, and innovation. This role sits at the center of that mission. About the Role Governments work at a scale that is truly exponential on missions that are of critical importance to people, communities and nations. The AI Success Engineer role is the primary post-sales relationship for OpenAI’s most important customers. You are responsible for the end-to-end account management of critical Government and Partner customers. You will be helping Government Leaders/Partners appropriately and effectively use AI for their mission, while simultaneously investing in ensuring their people are AI-enabled and ready to advance positive outcomes that their constituents depend on them for. You will drive: the impact of our tools on their mission, account health and adoption, ensuring technical readiness, creating and executing on the deployment strategy, enabling, educating and training their workforce, identifying new use cases and upsell opportunities, and d

About the Team OpenAI’s User Operations team helps customers adopt AI successfully and get exceptional value from our products. We resolve complex issues, provide technical guidance, and partner with Sales, Technical Success, Product, Engineering, Security, and other teams to deliver an excellent customer experience at scale. The Government Support Delivery team serves public-sector customers, including U.S. Government agencies and organizations operating under FedRAMP requirements. We help customers deploy and use OpenAI products reliably while navigating complex technical, security, and compliance needs. About the Role We are looking for an experienced technical support leader to build and lead the team responsible for supporting OpenAI’s government customers. You will set the team’s technical and operational direction, develop talented support engineers, and ensure that complex customer issues are resolved with urgency, sound judgment, and care. Your team will work directly with public-sector customers and partner closely with Product, Engineering, Security, Technical Success, and customer-facing teams. You will turn what the team learns from customer issues into lasting improvements across our products, documentation, tools, and support practices. This is an opportunity to shape a critical support function from the ground up and define how OpenAI delivers trusted, technically excellent support to government customers. This role is based in Washington, D.C. We use a hybrid work model of three days in the office per week and offer relocation assistance to new employees. To comply with a U.S. government contract, applicants for this position must be U.S. citizens, U.S. nationals, or U.S. persons (i.e., U.S. lawful permanent residents, refugees, and asylees). This role is based in Washington, DC. We use a hybrid work model of 3 days in the office per week and offer relocation assistance to new employees. In this role, you will: Build and lead a team of highly skille

About the Team The OpenAI for Government team is a dynamic, mission-driven group leveraging frontier AI to transform how governments achieve their missions. Our team works to empower public servants with secure, commercial and specialized national-security models that address government's mission needs, meet their technical requirements, and provide the highest degree of reliability and safety. As part of the OpenAI for Government team you will work with U.S. intelligence community and international public sector customers, helping to accelerate adoption through hands‑on support, tailored training, and early insights—so civil servants can spend less time on red tape and more on meaningful work. If you're passionate about responsibly deploying frontier AI to uplift public institutions and transform how government works, we want you on our team. About the Role Our OpenAI for Government team has a unique mission to help government customers understand the transformative impact that highly capable AI models can bring to their critical missions. This role combines technical understanding, strategic vision, partnership management, and value-driven strategy specifically tailored to government customers. As a Capture Manager, you’ll identify and drive key opportunities through the government sales cycle, from pipeline generation to closure. You’ll collaborate closely with industry partners, potential customers, policy makers, and internal experts to help government customers advance their missions through AI. This role is based in Washington, DC. In this role, you will: Pipeline Development : Partner with O4G GTM teams to identify, build, and maintain a multi-year pipeline of strategic opportunities. Capture Management : Lead the full capture lifecycle — from opportunity identification and qualification through win strategy, teaming, proposal, and award. Content Development : Write and edit proposal sections, weaving together inputs from subject matter experts into cohesive

About the Team The mission of the Applied AI Engineering team is to enable the secure and impactful implementation of GenAI solutions. We serve as technical thought partners and trusted advisors to our clients, ideating high-value use cases and providing the hands-on guidance necessary to drive projects into production. In this role within the Government team, you will empower agencies to evolve their operations through automated content synthesis, advanced search capabilities, and bespoke applications leveraging our latest foundational technologies and models. About the Role We are looking for a driven solutions leader with a product mindset to partner with our public sector customers and ensure they achieve tangible value with GenAI. You will pair with government agencies (federal, state, and local), policymakers, and other public institutions to establish a GenAI strategy and identify the highest value applications. You’ll then partner with their technical teams, subject matter experts, systems integrators, and implementation partners to move from prototype through production. You’ll take a holistic view of their needs and design an architecture using the OpenAI API and other services to maximize customer value. You will collaborate closely with Sales, Solutions Engineering, Global Affairs, Applied Research, and Product teams. This role is based in Washington, DC. We offer relocation support to new employees. In this role, you will: Deeply embed with our most sophisticated public sector customers as the technical lead, serving as their technical thought partner to ideate and build novel applications on our API and other OpenAI foundational technologies like Codex. Work with senior customer stakeholders to identify the best applications of GenAI in their industry and to build/qualify a comprehensive backlog to support their AI roadmap. Intervene directly to accelerate customer time to value through building hands-on prototypes and/or by delivering impactful strate

About the Team OpenAI’s User Operations team shepherds our customers’ adoption of AI and ensures that our customers' product experience is nothing short of exceptional. We are building the very first post-AGI support team. We resolve complex issues, provide technical guidance, and support customers in maximizing value and adoption from deploying our products. We work closely with Sales, Technical Success, Product, Engineering and others, to deliver the best possible experience to our customers at scale. OpenAI's customers represent a range of diverse backgrounds and maturity, from early-stage startups to established global enterprises. About the Role We’re looking for dedicated, experienced, and deeply curious individuals to help solve some of the most complex challenges faced by our customers while building the future of post-AGI support alongside us. In this role, you’ll work directly with customers through support tickets and live calls, troubleshooting high-impact issues and resolving novel, often ambiguous technical problems in one of the fastest-moving environments in technology. As AI adoption rapidly accelerates, the work you do will directly support mission-critical systems being built on OpenAI’s platform, serving as a critical line of defense for customers operating at massive scale. Beyond resolving technical issues, you’ll help define what world-class support looks like in an AGI-driven future. You’ll partner closely with Engineering, Product, and Operations to improve systems, reduce bugs, and elevate the customer experience, while leveraging automation, agents, and our own AI technology to transform how support operates at scale. We use a hybrid work model of 3 days in the office per week and offer relocation assistance to new employees. As employees in this role with work with many customers based on the East Coast, regularly weekday hours will commence at 6am Pacific. To comply with a U.S. government contract, applicants for this position must be U.