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About the Team OpenAI’s User Operations team shepherds our customer’s 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 are looking for a leader to build and scale our Support Engineering team, which will collaborate directly with our strategic enterprise accounts, our product and engineering teams, as well as our field teams to solve some of the most difficult technical problems faced by our customers. You will lead one of the best technical troubleshooting teams at OpenAI, and our customers and Engineering teams will look to you for technical guidance in addressing the most technically difficult issues in our environment. You will play an integral role in building knowledge within the team and be part of strategic initiatives for organizational and process improvements. Working directly with our most strategic customers - You will be crucial to the success of the most innovative, disruptive, and high-scale AI solutions being built with the OpenAI platform. This team will handle high difficulty situations and issues. The team will be global, providing 24x7 technical coverage for our customers. This will be an opportunity to build this new team from first principles - your leadership will determine the future of this organization. The ideal candidate will have a combination of technical capabilities mixed with strong leadership and systems building strength. This role is based in San Francisco, CA. We use a hybrid work model of 3 days

About the Team The Industrial Compute team is responsible for building the physical infrastructure that powers OpenAI’s largest-scale AI systems. We design, deploy, and operate next-generation compute infrastructure across a rapidly expanding global footprint, combining OpenAI-owned infrastructure with strategic cloud and infrastructure partners to support frontier AI workloads. As our infrastructure footprint grows, operational excellence across third-party providers becomes increasingly critical. Our team ensures external infrastructure partners consistently deliver the reliability, performance, and operational maturity required to support OpenAI’s rapidly expanding compute environment. About the Role We are seeking a Hardware Technical Program Manager, Infrastructure Partner Operations to lead operational delivery across OpenAI’s third-party infrastructure partners, including major cloud service providers and strategic compute vendors. In this role, you will serve as the primary operational program manager for external infrastructure partners, driving accountability for service delivery, operational readiness, incident management, performance reporting, and continuous operational improvement. You will work closely with partner engineering and operations teams while coordinating internally across Hardware Engineering, Infrastructure Operations, Capacity Planning, Networking, Supply Chain, Deployment, Reliability Engineering, and executive leadership. Success in this role requires someone who understands how hyperscale infrastructure organizations operate, can establish strong operational governance with external partners, and is comfortable driving complex technical programs without direct ownership of the underlying infrastructure. Key Responsibilities Own operational engagement with third-party infrastructure providers, ensuring consistent execution against operational commitments, service-level agreements (SLAs), and performance expectations. Develop operationa

About the Team OpenAI’s Enterprise Go-To-Market organization helps the world’s largest companies adopt and scale our AI platform across their business—from ChatGPT Enterprise to our developer platform and APIs. We partner with organizations across Financial Services, Life Sciences, and Retail to build new AI-powered customer experiences, transform operations, and reimagine how work gets done in highly regulated and technically complex environments. As adoption accelerates through pilots, experimentation, and developer-led use cases, the GTM team turns that momentum into durable, enterprise-wide deployments. Account Associates sit at the front of this motion—where technical curiosity turns into executive engagement, and early product signals become enterprise-wide deployments. About the Role This role is designed as a launchpad for future enterprise sellers at OpenAI. This is a highly strategic role with significant exposure to enterprise sales, product, and customer strategy. You’ll develop core skills in discovery, stakeholder mapping, deal shaping, and executive communication while building a deep understanding of how leading companies adopt AI. We are looking for individuals with 4-6+ years of professional experience who are motivated to grow into world-class enterprise sellers over time. While many individuals in this role go on to become Account Directors or take on broader GTM roles, progression is based on performance and business needs rather than a fixed timeline. For the right person, this is one of the most accelerated paths to break into sales at OpenAI and build a long-term career in AI go-to-market. In this role, you will identify, shape, and advance complex enterprise opportunities by turning product usage, pilots, and inbound demand into qualified, high-conviction enterprise opportunities for our Large Enterprise and Strategic Accounts teams. This role is based in San Francisco. We use a hybrid work model of 3 days in the office per week (Monday thro

About the Team The Pricing & Monetization team is responsible for how our products create and capture value. We partner closely with Product, Engineering, Data Science, GTM, and Finance to design pricing models, packaging, and commercial strategies that support adoption, growth, and long-term scaling of the business. To thrive in this team, you need to be a proactive problem-solver who excels at bringing structure to ambiguous challenges. Our work demands strategic thinking, cross-functional collaboration, and precision in execution. Team members succeed when they are analytical, detail-oriented, skilled at balancing multiple priorities, and passionate about driving high-stakes projects forward to deliver meaningful results. About the Role We are looking for a Pricing Strategist to shape how we price and monetize OpenAI’s API platform. You’ll own the end-to-end pricing strategy across model launches, price architecture, packaging, commitments and discounts, and monetization guardrails. You’ll work closely with senior leaders across Product, Engineering, Data Science, GTM, and Finance to define pricing approaches, improve commercial decision-making, and bring more rigor to how we monetize our API offerings. You should be comfortable building monetization frameworks and commercial policies, analyzing tradeoffs, supporting high-impact decisions and driving decision making. You should also care deeply about the customer perspective and believe that strong pricing reflects a real understanding of customer value, needs, and friction points in order to build pricing that is clear, fair, and aligned with how customers experience our products. This role will report to the Head of Product Pricing for API & Platform. What you’ll do Develop the end-to-end pricing strategy for our API platform, including model launch pricing, price architecture, packaging, discount logic, and monetization guardrails. Recommend pricing for new models, capabilities, and platform offerings,

About the Team OpenAI Finance is responsible for ensuring the organization is set up for success in pursuit of its mission. OpenAI’s Tax and Trade team sits at the center of OpenAI’s global growth—shaping how cutting-edge AI products, partnerships, and infrastructure scale across borders while navigating complex tax, trade, and regulatory regimes. We operate as strategic operators, not just compliance experts, embedding early in product, finance, policy, and infrastructure decisions to manage risk, unlock incentives, and enable OpenAI to grow responsibly and competitively worldwide. As OpenAI’s products, monetization models, and global infrastructure expand, our tax systems must scale with the same rigor and reliability as our product architecture. The team partners deeply with Financial Engineering, Product Engineering, and Finance Systems to build a modern tax technology stack that enables accurate, real-time tax determination across OpenAI’s global business. About the Role We're hiring a Director, Tax Infrastructure & Incentives to lead OpenAI's global tax infrastructure strategy supporting AI infrastructure expansion programs. You will own the tax strategy supporting data center development, site selection, infrastructure investments, and government incentive programs across. This role extends far beyond traditional property tax planning and reporting - you will help shape where and how OpenAI invests billions of dollars in AI infrastructure by partnering with executive leadership, infrastructure teams, governments, utilities, and external stakeholders. You will build scalable frameworks for negotiating and managing tax incentives, property tax, indirect tax, and infrastructure-related tax matters while developing repeatable processes that enable OpenAI to expand rapidly across multiple jurisdictions. You will also establish the governance, reporting, and operational infrastructure required to support long-term compliance, financial reporting, and executive

About the Team Our Robotics team is focused on unlocking general-purpose robotics and advancing toward AGI-level intelligence in dynamic, real-world environments. Working across the full model and systems stack, we integrate cutting-edge hardware and software to explore a broad range of robotic form factors. We strive to seamlessly blend high-level AI capabilities with the physical constraints of real-world systems to improve people’s lives. About the Role We are seeking an experienced commercial attorney to serve as the primary legal partner supporting Robotics. In this role, you will provide practical, business-oriented legal counsel across hardware development, manufacturing, supply chain, procurement, and strategic commercial initiatives. You will work closely with Robotics leadership and cross-functional partners to help build scalable legal frameworks that enable innovation while thoughtfully managing risk. This is a unique opportunity to help shape the legal foundation of a rapidly growing robotics organization developing cutting-edge technologies. You will negotiate high-impact commercial agreements, advise on complex operational matters, and partner closely with technical and business teams to support the development and commercialization of next-generation robotics systems. This role is based in San Francisco, CA and requires in-person presence 4 days a week. In this role, you will: Serve as the primary legal partner supporting Robotics leadership and cross-functional teams. Provide practical, business-oriented legal advice to teams across hardware engineering, manufacturing operations, supply chain, procurement, finance, and operations. Draft, review, and negotiate complex commercial agreements, including supplier, manufacturing, development, consulting, licensing, procurement, and strategic partnership agreements. Advise on legal issues arising throughout the hardware development lifecycle, including manufacturing, supply chain operations, vendor relatio

About the Team OpenAI’s Enterprise Go-To-Market organization helps the world’s largest companies adopt and scale our AI platform across their business—from ChatGPT Enterprise to our developer platform and APIs. We partner with organizations across Financial Services, Life Sciences, and Retail in LATAM to build new AI-powered customer experiences, transform operations, and reimagine how work gets done in highly regulated and technically complex environments. As adoption accelerates through pilots, experimentation, and developer-led use cases, the GTM team turns that momentum into durable, enterprise-wide deployments. Account Associates sit at the front of this motion—where technical curiosity turns into executive engagement, and early product signals become enterprise-wide deployments. About the Role This role is designed as a launchpad for future enterprise sellers at OpenAI. This is a highly strategic role with significant exposure to enterprise sales, product, and customer strategy. You’ll develop core skills in discovery, stakeholder mapping, deal shaping, and executive communication while building a deep understanding of how leading companies adopt AI. We are looking for individuals with 4-6+ years of professional experience who are motivated to grow into world-class enterprise sellers over time. While many individuals in this role go on to become Account Directors or take on broader GTM roles, progression is based on performance and business needs rather than a fixed timeline. For the right person, this is one of the most accelerated paths to break into sales at OpenAI and build a long-term career in AI go-to-market. In this role, you will identify, shape, and advance complex enterprise opportunities by turning product usage, pilots, and inbound demand into qualified, high-conviction enterprise opportunities for our Large Enterprise and Strategic Accounts teams based in LATAM. This role is based in San Francisco. We use a hybrid work model of 3 days in the offi

About the Team The Internal Controls function sits within the broader Finance Risk Management (FRM) organization and plays a key role in strengthening the integrity, scalability, and reliability of OpenAI’s finance-critical operations. Our team designs and governs control frameworks that support accurate, transparent financial results and responsible business execution. We focus on business-process and operational controls across areas such as payments, equity, procure-to-pay, payroll and HR processes, strategic investments, M&A, financial close, third-party dependencies, systems, and other high-risk workflows. We work closely with Controllership, Procurement, Legal, People, Corporate Development, Strategic Finance, Finance Systems, Compliance, and business operators to ensure processes are well-designed, well-documented, and audit-ready. As part of FRM, we contribute to OpenAI’s overall financial risk posture by supporting audit readiness, third-party risk considerations, operational risk governance, systems oversight, and ongoing process improvement across the finance ecosystem. Together, we help build the foundation of trust and operational clarity needed for OpenAI to scale responsibly. About the Role We’re seeking a Senior Manager, Financial Risk Management to help shape and scale OpenAI’s risk and controls framework across several dynamic business domains. This role will focus on identifying, prioritizing, and mitigating operational and financial risk across areas such as payments, equity, strategic investments, procurement, people processes, systems, third-party dependencies, and other finance-critical workflows. This person will serve as a senior cross-functional partner to Finance, Controllership, Legal, People, Procurement, Corporate Development, Payments, Systems, and business operators to design and implement controls that are practical, scalable, and capable of holding up in a fast-changing environment with limited structure. The role requires someo

About the Team OpenAI’s Enterprise Go-To-Market organization helps the world’s largest companies adopt and scale our AI platform across their business, from ChatGPT Enterprise to our developer and APIs. We partner with organizations across Financial Services, Life Sciences, and Retail to build new AI-powered customer experiences, transform operations, and reimagine how work gets done in highly regulated and technically complex environments. As adoption accelerates through pilots, experimentation, and develop-led use cases, the GTM team turns that momentum into durable, enterprise-wide deployments. About the Role This role is designed as a launchpad for future sellers at OpenAI. This is a highly strategic role with significant exposure to enterprise sales, product, and customer strategy. You’ll develop core skills in discovery, stakeholder mapping, deal shaping, and executive communication while building a deep understanding of how leading companies adopt AI. We are looking for individuals with 4-6+ years of professional experience who are motivated to grow into world-class enterprise sellers over time. While many individuals in this role go on to become Account Directors or take on broader GTM roles, progression is based on performance and business needs rather than a fixed timeline. For the right person, this is one of the most accelerated paths to break into sales at OpenAI and build a long-term career in AI go-to-market. In this role, you will identify, shape, and advance complex enterprise opportunities by turning product usage, pilots, and inbound demand into qualified, high-conviction enterprise opportunities for our large Enterprise and Strategic Accounts teams. In this role, you will: Partner with Account Directors on account strategy, multi-threading, and deal progression Design and execute targeted outbound strategies using industry context, stakeholder mapping, and product signal to break into priority accounts Lead high-quality discovery to uncover busin

About the Team The Applied AI Engineer - Digital Natives team is responsible for ensuring the safe and effective deployment of Generative AI applications for developers and enterprises. We act as a trusted advisor and thought partner for our customers, working to build an effective backlog of frontier AI use cases for their industry and drive them to production through strong technical guidance. As an Applied AI Engineer in the Digital Native segment, you’ll help large and highly sophisticated companies transform their business through custom AI solutions applications such as customer service, automated content generation, contextual search, personalization, and other novel use cases leveraging OpenAI’s newest, most exciting models and latest capabilities. About the Role We are looking for a driven solutions leader with a product mindset to partner with our customers and ensure they achieve tangible business value with frontier AI. You will pair with senior customer leaders to establish AI strategic roadmaps and identify the highest value applications. You’ll then partner with their engineering and product teams to move from prototype through production. You’ll take a holistic view of their needs and design an enterprise architecture using OpenAI APIs and other services to maximize customer value. You will collaborate closely with Sales, Solutions Engineering, Applied Research, and Product. This role is based in our São Paulo, Brazil office. 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: Deeply embedd with our most sophisticated and technical platform customers, serving as their technical thought partner in ideating and building novel applications on our APIs. Proactively provide guidance to our customers on how to maximize business impact from their applications, accelerating their time to value. Experiment and prototype solutions with and for your customers. Forge and manage rel

About the team OpenAI’s Forward Deployed Engineering team partners with customers to turn research breakthroughs into production systems. We operate at the intersection of customer delivery and core platform development. About the role Forward Deployed Engineers (FDEs) lead complex end-to-end deployments of frontier models in production alongside our most strategic customers. You will own discovery, technical scoping, system design, build, and production rollout, partnering directly with customer engineering and domain teams. You will measure success through production adoption, measurable workflow impact, and eval-driven feedback that changes product and model roadmaps. You’ll work closely with our Product, Research, Partnerships, GRC, Security, and GTM teams. This role is based in Seoul. We use a hybrid work model of 3 days in the office per week and offer relocation assistance to new employees. 50% travel is expected. In this role you will Own technical delivery across multiple deployments from first prototype to stable production. Build full-stack systems that deliver customer value and sharpen how we learn. Embed closely with customer teams, understand their needs, and guide adoption of what you build. Scope work, sequence delivery, and remove blockers early. Make trade-offs between scope, speed, and quality; adjust plans to protect delivery. Contribute directly in the code when progress or clarity depends on it. Codify working patterns into tools, playbooks, or building blocks that others can use. Share field feedback that helps Research and Product understand where the models succeed and where they can improve. Keep teams moving through clarity and follow-through. You might thrive in this role if you Bring 5+ years of engineering or technical deployment experience that includes customer-facing work. Have scoped and delivered complex systems in fast-moving or ambiguous environments. Write and review production-grade code across frontend and backend using Pytho

About the Team OpenAI’s mission is to ensure that artificial general intelligence benefits all of humanity. Customer Education plays an important role in that mission by helping people and organizations use increasingly capable AI systems effectively, responsibly, and with confidence. We create learning experiences, programs, and resources that help customers move from initial understanding to sustained use and measurable impact. As our products, audiences, and programs grow, we need an operating foundation that keeps the content portfolio trusted, clarifies complex work, and helps the team deliver at a consistently high standard. This role offers the opportunity to build the operational foundation behind education programs that shape how enterprises adopt frontier AI. About the Role We are looking for a strategic operator to own the operating system behind Customer Education. You will work at the center of content, systems, and team execution: owning the health of our education content portfolio, running the team’s operating rhythm, and translating evolving business needs into scalable workflows and system requirements. The right person will raise the quality of execution across Customer Education. You will bring order, judgment, and follow-through to a fast-moving environment, making the function easier to run, easier to trust, and easier to scale. In this role, you will: Own the health and integrity of the Customer Education content portfolio, including lifecycle, governance, discoverability, reuse, and meaningful gaps. Ensure customer-facing teams can confidently find and use the right education resources at the right time. Run the team’s operating rhythm across priorities, ownership, timelines, dependencies, decisions, launch readiness, and follow-through. Turn ambiguous cross-functional initiatives into clear plans, workflows, responsibilities, and decision points. Design scalable processes and handoffs for how education programs are created, launched, maintai

About the Team OpenAI’s mission is to build safe artificial general intelligence (AGI) that benefits all of humanity. Achieving this requires bringing the world’s most exceptional talent under one roof to push the boundaries of what’s possible. Our Research Recruiting team plays a critical role in this effort. We are an embedded part of the research organization, working side by side with our research staff to deeply understand evolving priorities, build trust, and strategically shape the future of OpenAI’s talent. About the Role You will own and execute long-term talent strategies to identify, engage, and recruit many of the world’s leading and emerging AI researchers, research engineers, and technical scientists working at the frontier of machine learning. This is not a traditional execution-focused recruiting role. You will operate as a strategic partner to OpenAI’s research staff, helping define hiring priorities, shape search strategy, influence candidate evaluation, and guide hiring decisions that directly impact the direction and quality of our frontier-model research and fulfillment of our mission. In this role, you will: Partner directly with research and technical staff to define hiring priorities, shape search strategies, and anticipate future talent needs as technical roadmaps evolve. Proactively identify and cultivate exceptional AI/ML research talent across industry, academia, and emerging labs, often before formal hiring needs exist. Use market insights and candidate signals to influence hiring decisions, leveling, and compensation strategy for highly specialized research roles. Serve as a trusted advisor throughout candidate evaluation and closing — helping leaders calibrate for research excellence, long-term potential, and organizational fit. Collaborate closely with your sourcing partner to execute complex, high-impact searches in ambiguous or rapidly evolving technical domains. You might thrive in this role if you: Significant experience recruitin

About the Team The GTM Strategy & Operations team drives the systems, insights, and operating rhythms that help scale Enterprise revenue growth. We partner closely with Sales, Finance, Enablement, Data, Growth Strategy, and Systems teams to improve business execution, accelerate growth, and operationalize key go-to-market initiatives across the Enterprise organization. About the Role You will partner closely with Digital Native Sales leadership and the GTM Strategy & Operations, Enterprise Lead to support strategic planning, improve business execution, and help operationalize key GTM initiatives across the Enterprise organization. You’ll help manage core sales cadences, analyze business performance, and drive cross-functional initiatives that improve efficiency and accelerate growth. This is a highly collaborative role that requires strong analytical skills, operational rigor, and the ability to navigate ambiguity while influencing stakeholders across multiple functions. We’re looking for people who enjoy solving complex business problems, using data to drive decision-making, and building scalable processes that help teams operate more effectively and grow faster. This role is based in San Francisco, CA. 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: Partner closely with Digital Native Sales leadership to support strategic planning, territory and coverage models, growth initiatives, and GTM priorities. Analyze business performance, pipeline health, customer trends, and sales funnel metrics to identify opportunities and inform recommendations. Support forecasting, pipeline reviews, business reviews, and executive reporting to improve visibility and execution across the Enterprise business. Develop and operationalize GTM growth strategies and strategic bets for new products, customer motions, capabilities, and market opportunities across Enterprise subsegments. Build and imp

About the Team The AI Deployment Engineering team is responsible for ensuring the safe and effective deployment of Generative AI applications for developers and enterprises. We act as a trusted advisor and thought partner for our customers, working to build an effective backlog of GenAI use cases for their industry and drive them to production through strong technical guidance. OpenAI's customers represent a range of diverse backgrounds and maturity, from early-stage startups to established global enterprises. About the Role We are seeking a technically proficient, business-minded AI Deployment Engineer to help push the frontier of advanced AI with our strategic startup customers. You'll work with some of the most exciting AI startups in the world, guiding them through ideation, development, delivery, and scaling to accelerate and maximize the value of what they build on our platform. You will have the opportunity to work on the most novel and creative use cases being built on our API, serving as a critical partner in collecting and delivering high-fidelity product and model feedback internally. You will collaborate closely with Sales, Solutions Engineering, Applied Research, and Product teams, and you will report to the Startups Solutions Architecture Lead. This role is based in Tokyo. 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: Partner closely with strategic startup customers as their technical thought partner to build novel applications on our API, helping them rapidly move from ideation to scale. Provide proactive guidance to maximize business impact and accelerate application development. Experiment and prototype alongside customers, demonstrating practical use cases. Contribute to open-source resources and scale the function by sharing knowledge, codifying best practices, and publishing useful resources. Synthesize and deliver valuable feedback to the Product and Research