General Manager in United States

About the Team OpenAI’s mission is to ensure that artificial general intelligence benefits all of humanity. The Events team advances that mission by connecting the people building AI with the people using it to solve problems, create new things, and open up opportunities for others. We bring developers, business leaders, customers, partners, and communities together to experience our technology firsthand and imagine what they can build with it. From global gatherings to hands-on experiences, our ambition is to inspire people to think bigger—and give them the ideas, relationships, and confidence to help shape what comes next. About the Role We’re looking for a Global Head of Events to lead a large, established global events and production team, with the opportunity to define what comes next. Working with OpenAI’s executive team, you’ll set the direction for our event portfolio, focus investment on the experiences that matter most, and give the team the clarity and support to do its best work. This is a chance to build on a substantial foundation and create the experiences people will associate with OpenAI for years to come. Your remit will span the company: flagship conferences, product launch experiences, developer gatherings, executive programs, regional events, and our presence at important industry and cultural moments. You’ll own the strategy, team, investments, and agency relationships that make that work possible. The team also leads in-house production for OpenAI’s town halls, webinar studio, and film projects. You’ll bring creative judgment, business instincts, and a love of bringing people together. You’re entrepreneurial and deeply curious: ready to start with an open question, find a direction, and learn by making things. You can make good decisions with incomplete information, bring others along, and change course when you learn something new. You’re also excited to use AI in your own work and help the team discover better ways to plan, create, and deliv

About the team OpenAI’s mission is to build safe artificial general intelligence (AGI) which benefits all of humanity. This long-term undertaking brings the world’s best scientists, engineers, and business professionals into one lab together to accomplish this. In pursuit of this mission, our Go To Market (GTM) team is responsible for helping customers learn how to leverage and deploy our highly capable AI products across their business. The team is made up of Sales, Solutions, Support, Marketing, and Partnership professionals who work together to bring AI to as many users as possible. About the role Our Sales team helps customers understand how highly capable AI can transform their businesses. As an Account Director, Large Enterprise, you’ll work with some of our largest accounts across a variety of industries, winning new business and expanding adoption within existing customers. This role combines technical understanding, executive engagement, and ownership of complex enterprise sales. You’ll create demand, develop opportunities, and lead deals from initial engagement through negotiation, deployment, and expansion. You’ll help executives move from curiosity about AI to a clear understanding of how it can change the way their businesses operate—and build a practical path to realizing that value. We’re looking for someone with a hunter mentality who takes initiative and creates momentum. You’re comfortable opening doors, building relationships across business units, and bringing commercial and technical stakeholders together around an enterprise transformation strategy. Success means both winning business and helping customers turn their commitments into sustained adoption and consumption. This role can be based in our San Francisco, New York City or Seattle offices. We are also considering applications to work remotely from within the U.S. We use a hybrid work model of 3 days in the office per week and offer relocation assistance to new employees. In this role, yo

About the Team OpenAI’s mission is to ensure that artificial general intelligence benefits all of humanity. Our Communications team supports that mission by explaining our technology, our values, and how we safely build powerful AI. We help business leaders see what AI can make possible for their organizations, show how customers use OpenAI’s products, and explain how AI is changing the way people work. About the Role We are looking for a senior product communications leader to own OpenAI’s B2B product story across business, trade, and nontraditional media. You will lead B2B communications for major product and platform moments, translate technical capabilities into clear business value, and build a sustained editorial program grounded in customer proof. Your work will help business leaders understand the problems our products solve and the outcomes they can enable using frontier intelligence. This is an exceptionally fast-paced, hands-on role that spans every altitude of communications. You will move from setting strategic positioning and shaping executive narratives to writing launch materials, developing media pitches, and delivering the details that make a story land. Working closely with Product, Research, Marketing, Sales, and our central Product Communications team, you will identify buyer needs, substantiate our claims, and carry a clear, consistent B2B story into the market. This role reports to the Head of Business Communications. In this role, you will: Set the positioning for OpenAI’s business products, connecting new capabilities to customer needs, the work they enable, and the evidence behind our claims. Lead business storytelling for priority launches across Codex, ChatGPT Work, API and developer capabilities, agents, and other enterprise products, in partnership with central Product Communications and product owners. Build a sustained editorial program between launches, using customer stories, explainers, and executive perspectives to show how our pr

About the Team Our Robotics team is focused on unlocking general-purpose robotics and pushing towards AGI-level intelligence in dynamic, real-world settings. Working across the entire model 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 constraints of physical systems to improve peoples’ lives. About the Role We are seeking Manufacturing Engineers to lead the development of processes, tooling, and prototype builds for custom motors and actuators. You will own a primary area as a Stator Process / Manufacturing Engineer, Tooling / Fixture Engineer, or Prototype Manufacturing Engineer, taking that work from early development through validation and repeatable execution in close partnership with mechanical, electromagnetic, electrical, test, quality, and supplier teams. These roles focus on the development, integration, and validation of electromechanical manufacturing capabilities, including stator winding processes, assembly and inspection tooling, and actuator prototype builds. You will help translate engineering designs into reliable hardware while establishing scalable processes, equipment, and build practices for future robotic platforms. This role is based in San Francisco, CA, and requires in-person presence 5 days a week. In this role, you will Each opening focuses on one of the three specialties below, with shared responsibility for reliable processes and hardware. Stator Process / Manufacturing: develop and validate stacking, winding, termination, and potting processes. Establish process parameters, work instructions, and defect controls that produce consistent results across trained operators. Tooling / Fixture: design and deliver winding tools, assembly fixtures, inspection gauges, and bench equipment, from CAD and drawings through fabrication, commissioning, and troubleshooting. Improve setup time, labor, and repeatability. Prototype M

About the Team OpenAI’s mission is to ensure that artificial general intelligence benefits all of humanity. Our Communications team supports that mission by explaining our technology, our values, and how we safely build powerful AI. We help business leaders see what AI can make possible for their organizations, show how customers use OpenAI’s products, and explain how AI is changing the way people work. Analyst Relations sits within Business Communications, helping industry analysts understand our technology, enterprise products, and how organizations put them to work. About the Role We are looking for a Head of Analyst Relations to build OpenAI’s global analyst relations program and help influential analysts understand our enterprise products and the business outcomes they enable. You will set the narrative and engagement strategy, focusing on the firms and categories that shape enterprise buying decisions. This is an exceptionally fast-paced, hands-on role. You will shape long-term positioning, advise senior leaders, and lead our participation in priority evaluations, briefings, and analyst engagement around launches. You will build trusted relationships while bringing Product, Research, Marketing, Sales, and Communications together to make decisions quickly and deliver exceptional work under tight deadlines. This role reports to the Head of Business Communications. This role will be hybrid, in office 3 days a week, ideally in the San Francisco Bay Area; flexible on New York based candidates. In this role, you will: Set the global analyst relations strategy, prioritizing the firms, categories, and questions that shape enterprise technology decisions. Lead OpenAI’s work on priority evaluations, from deciding where to engage through submissions, demos, and customer evidence. Build a coherent enterprise narrative across a fast-moving product portfolio, grounded in what ships, customer outcomes, and responsible deployment. Develop trusted, candid relationships with an

About the team OpenAI’s mission is to ensure that artificial general intelligence benefits all of humanity. OpenAI for Government helps public-sector institutions use advanced AI responsibly to improve services and advance critical missions. The Partnerships team builds the external ecosystem and internal operating mechanisms required to deliver that work at scale. Role Summary We are seeking a Partnerships Operations Lead to build and run the operating foundation for OpenAI for Government’s Partnerships team. This person will serve as the operational connective tissue across the partner team, working closely with Account Directors, Solutions Architects, Revenue Operations, Deal Desk, and other cross-functional stakeholders to move opportunities from initial engagement through agreement and execution. They will help ensure a smooth handoff to Technical Success across accounts by establishing clear readiness criteria, capturing the right commercial and customer context, and aligning teams on partner roles, commitments, dependencies, and success outcomes. The ideal candidate is a true utility player who combines the relationship instincts of a growth oriented builder with the rigor of an exceptional business operator. They thrive in ambiguity, create processes that do not yet exist, and move fluidly between deal execution, workflow design, analysis, and cross-functional coordination. Key Responsibilities Own the end-to-end operating cadence for partner-sourced and partner-influenced opportunities, from intake and qualification through approvals, contracting, launch, and expansion. Build and continuously improve operating processes, standard procedures, stage gates, decision rights, and service expectations that make partner execution faster and more predictable. Operationalize new and existing government partner motions—including cloud providers, resellers, and sell-through models—by translating requirements that differ from standard commercial motions into clear work

About the Team Our Robotics team is focused on unlocking general-purpose robotics and pushing towards AGI-level intelligence in dynamic, real-world settings. Working across the entire model 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 constraints of physical systems to improve peoples’ lives. About the Role We are seeking a Mechanical Design Engineer to lead the development of motor mechanical designs and prototype hardware for advanced robotic systems. You will own stator and rotor mechanical development from early concepts and detailed design through hands-on builds and prototype validation, partnering closely with electromagnetic, electrical, test, and manufacturing teams. This role focuses on the design, integration, and validation of motor components and prototype processes, including laminations, stack assemblies, bobbins, winding interfaces, and fixtures. You will help drive motor development from initial design through repeatable low-volume builds while establishing the tooling, work instructions, and validation practices needed for future robotic platforms. This role is based in San Francisco, CA, and requires in-person presence 4 days a week. In this role, you will Own stator and rotor mechanical designs and released CAD and drawings, including geometry, interfaces, fits, tolerances, retention, assembly access, and mechanical validation. Develop laminations, stack assembly methods, bobbins, and winding interfaces that control alignment, insulation, conductor placement, and end-turn packaging. Design, fabricate, and debug fixtures for winding, stacking, assembly, alignment, and inspection. Build and troubleshoot prototypes. Use measurements, defects, rework, and assembly effort to improve designs and processes. Establish low-volume prototype production with equipment, build sequences, work instructions, revision control, traceability

About the Team OpenAI’s mission is to ensure that general-purpose artificial intelligence benefits all of humanity. The Youth team is focused on making AI safe, useful, and empowering for young people. Our work spans foundational protections—including age assurance and always-on safety—as well as new learning and education experiences. We’re also exploring how OpenAI’s technology can support K–12 schools, educators, classrooms, and collaborative learning. About the Role We’re looking for a staff-level product designer to shape how young people safely engage with AI and help define OpenAI’s emerging education experiences. You’ll work across immediate product needs and ambitious zero-to-one opportunities, from age-appropriate safety systems to tools for learning and group work. A high craft bar is imperative. You’ll be expected to pair exceptional interaction and visual design with deep product thinking—turning complex questions around safety, learning, and institutional needs into experiences that feel clear, trustworthy, and engaging. This is a highly generative role for someone who can move from early exploration to concrete, high-fidelity product direction. You’ll partner closely with product, engineering, research, safety, policy, and design to establish durable patterns for a space that is still being defined. This role is based in our San Francisco HQ. We offer relocation assistance to new employees. In this role you will: Establish an exceptionally high standard for craft across OpenAI’s youth and education experiences. Lead end-to-end design for products that help young people use AI safely, confidently, and productively. Design clear, age-appropriate experiences for safety, age assurance, and other sensitive or high-trust interactions. Shape zero-to-one K–12 experiences spanning school districts, educators, classrooms, collaborative work, and builder-style workflows. Turn emerging ideas into compelling concepts, prototypes, and high-fidelity product experien

About the Team Our Robotics team is focused on unlocking general-purpose robotics and pushing towards AGI-level intelligence in dynamic, real-world settings. Working across the entire model 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 constraints of physical systems to improve peoples’ lives. About the Role We are seeking a Mechanical Engineer to design, build, and own the mechanical side of our robotic actuator dynamometer and test infrastructure. You will create the test stands, couplings, fixtures, load paths, guarding, and serviceable lab hardware that enable rigorous characterization of robotic actuators. This role combines precision mechanical design with hands-on lab work. You will take robotic actuator test infrastructure from requirements and analysis through CAD, fabrication, assembly, commissioning, and iteration, partnering closely with electrical and software engineers to deliver safe, flexible, high-uptime test cells. In this role, you will Own the mechanical architecture of dynamometer and actuator test cells, including frames, bases, load paths, alignment, guarding, and serviceability. Design dynamometer structures, robotic actuator fixtures, load-motor mounts, couplings, shafts, bearings, adapters, and torque-reaction hardware. Translate robotic actuator test requirements into robust mechanical systems for torque, speed, thermal, durability, backdrive, efficiency, and failure testing. Perform first-principles analysis and simulation for stiffness, strength, fatigue, vibration, thermal growth, critical speed, and safety factors. Create precise, repeatable alignment strategies that protect test articles, load machines, sensors, and couplings. Design modular fixturing that supports rapid changeover across actuator and motor variants without compromising measurement quality. Work closely with electrical engineers on cable routing

About the Team OpenAI’s mission is to ensure that general-purpose artificial intelligence benefits all of humanity. The Design Systems team creates the foundations that help teams across OpenAI build coherent, high-quality experiences at scale. Accessibility is fundamental to that work. We’re building the shared standards, components, tools, and practices that make inclusive experiences the default across OpenAI’s products and platforms. About the Role In this role, you’ll lead OpenAI’s company-wide accessibility program from within Design Foundations. You’ll pair strategy and organizational influence with hands-on product design—advocating for disabled people, removing barriers across complete customer journeys, and establishing durable ownership throughout the company. This is an opportunity to define accessibility for a new generation of products spanning web, mobile, desktop, voice, AI, and hardware. You’ll help teams consider the many ways people perceive, understand, navigate, and interact with technology, going beyond minimum compliance to create experiences that are genuinely useful and inclusive. Working across design, engineering, research, product, go-to-market, and legal, you’ll make accessibility an expected part of product quality—not a final review or the responsibility of a single expert. This role is based in our San Francisco HQ. We offer relocation assistance to new employees. In this role you will: Define OpenAI’s accessibility strategy, roadmap, governance, priorities, and measures of progress. Design and ship accessible experiences while identifying systemic barriers across complete customer journeys. Build accessibility into our design system through inclusive components, tokens, interaction patterns, Figma libraries, documentation, and engineering guardrails. Center disabled people through participatory research, usability studies, and assistive-technology testing rather than relying solely on assumptions, simulations, or automated tools. Des

About the Team OpenAI’s mission is to ensure that general-purpose artificial intelligence benefits all of humanity. We believe achieving this goal requires real-world deployment and continuous iteration based on how our products are used—and misused—in practice. The Child Safety team is responsible for detection, review, and enforcement of OpenAI’s Child Safety product policies. We leverage a balanced use of technology and subject matter expertise to scale our operations. We collaborate with internal legal, research, and policy teams, external experts, and other industry stakeholders to keep OpenAI aligned with evolving regulations and industry best practices around child safety. About the Role As a Child Safety Enforcement Specialist on the Intelligence & Investigations, you independently lead defined child safety investigations and projects from triage through documented outcome. You apply strong working knowledge of policy and investigative practice, surface trends in abuse signals, recommend evidence-based mitigations, and coordinate with partners to deliver reliable safety outcomes. The role includes sensitive content review and may involve supporting quality and workflow improvements. You’ll be responsible for: This role supports child safety investigations, enforcement, reporting, and process improvement. The work includes significant review of sensitive content and analysis of user behavior. This role independently owns defined projects, aligns with cross-functional priorities, and escalates complex legal or policy questions through established channels. In this role, you will: Independently review and investigate child safety content and behavior, including CSAM and grooming signals, applying policy consistently and documenting evidence and rationale. Lead well-defined high-risk escalations end to end; anticipate blockers, communicate progress, and make or recommend enforcement decisions within policy and escalation boundaries. Identify potential mandat

About the Team OpenAI’s mission is to build safe artificial general intelligence (AGI) that benefits all of humanity. Achieving this requires bringing together world-class scientists, engineers, and business leaders to translate frontier research into real-world impact. Within OpenAI, the Go-to-Market organization helps customers understand, adopt, and scale our products across their businesses. The team includes Sales, Solutions, Support, Marketing, Partnerships, and Strategic Pursuits professionals who work together to bring the benefits of AI to organizations globally. About the Role At OpenAI, we're building toward an agent-first world where AI systems reason, act, transact, and create alongside people and businesses. As agents become a primary interface for work, the Strategic Pursuits Team leads our most complex enterprise opportunities and helps define how customers adopt OpenAI at scale. We're seeking a Strategic Pursuits Lead to shape and close high-impact enterprise opportunities across Frontier, AI Solutions, ChatGPT, Codex, API, and emerging offerings. This person partners with customers, account teams, Product, FDE, Legal, Finance, GTM, and executives to turn ambiguous demand into a clear vision, business case, commercial structure, delivery path, and repeatable GTM motion. This is a builder role for someone who thrives in ambiguity, can operate without a playbook, and is energized by creating the playbook while running the pursuit. The right person brings executive presence, commercial judgment, product intuition, and the ability to make messy work executable. This role can be based in our San Francisco or Seattle offices. We are also considering applications to work remotely from within the U.S. 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: Lead strategic pursuits from early qualification through customer alignment, proposal, commercial structure, and transition in

About the Team Our Robotics team is focused on unlocking general-purpose robotics and pushing towards AGI-level intelligence in dynamic, real-world settings. Working across the entire model 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 constraints of physical systems to improve peoples’ lives. About the Role We’re looking for a Robotics Control Systems Engineer to take on a foundational role within our robotics team. You’ll help architect, implement, tune, and verify the control infrastructure that enables intelligent, reliable, and responsive robot behavior. This is a deeply hands-on role focused on real-time systems, actuation, dynamics, low-level hardware interaction, and whole-robot performance. You’ll spend significant time working directly with robots onsite: debugging behavior, tuning subsystems, running experiments, and providing feedback across mechanical, electrical, and software teams. This role is based in San Francisco, CA, and requires in-person 5 days a week. In this role, you will: Design and implement real-time control algorithms for robotic systems, including motion control, feedback loops, state estimation, actuator control, and subsystem tuning. Define the control architecture from low-level actuators and hardware interfaces through whole-robot behavior and policy. Identify and characterize actuator, hardware, and software parameters through rigorous experimentation, testing, commissioning, and verification. Work with machine learning engineers to implement reinforcement learning models. Collaborate across mechanical, electrical, and software teams to integrate control logic with sensing and actuation hardware. Help inform the mechanical and electrical design to maximize capability and flexibility. Create the control system architecture; determine the correct level of abstraction from actuators all the way up to whole-robot

About the Team OpenAI’s mission is to ensure that artificial general intelligence benefits all of humanity. Our Go-to-Market team helps organizations understand, adopt, and deploy OpenAI’s technology to solve meaningful business challenges and create lasting value. The Technology team works with leading software, internet, cloud, infrastructure, cybersecurity, semiconductor, and digital-native companies as they build new AI-powered products, transform internal operations, and rethink how they serve their customers. We partner with executives, product leaders, engineers, and go-to-market teams to help organizations integrate OpenAI’s capabilities into their products and businesses responsibly and at scale. The team collaborates closely with Solutions Engineering, Customer Success, Product, Research, Partnerships, Marketing, and Operations to turn customer priorities into successful, durable deployments. About the Role We are looking for an experienced Account Director, Tech to help build and grow OpenAI’s business across the technology industry. You will own relationships with a portfolio of strategic technology companies, helping executive, product, and technical leaders understand how OpenAI’s products can accelerate innovation, improve productivity, and create differentiated customer experiences. You will be responsible for developing account strategies, creating qualified pipeline, navigating complex enterprise sales cycles, and expanding adoption across products, teams, and use cases. This role requires a combination of enterprise sales leadership, technical fluency, commercial judgment, and the ability to operate credibly with both business and engineering stakeholders. You should be comfortable engaging with customers that have sophisticated technical environments, rapidly evolving AI strategies, and high expectations for product performance, security, reliability, and scale. Success in this role will be measured by revenue growth, depth of customer adoption,

About the Team OpenAI’s mission is to ensure that general-purpose artificial intelligence benefits all of humanity. Our Communications team includes External Communications, Internal Communications, and other strategic communications functions. This team’s ethos is to support OpenAI’s mission and goals by clearly and authentically explaining our technology, values, and approach to safely building powerful AI. About the Role We’re looking for a senior communications leader to shape how OpenAI communicates about cybersecurity. This person will define the global narrative, lead communications for major product, research, and business milestones, and build sustained programs that explain how OpenAI is helping advance cyber defense while managing the risks created by increasingly capable models. The role will connect OpenAI’s work across cybersecurity products and capabilities, responsible deployment, threat intelligence, enterprise security, research, and public policy. You will work closely with Security, Product, Research, Preparedness, Safety, Global Affairs, Go-to-Market, Legal, and Marketing to anticipate opportunities and risks, develop coordinated communications, and build trust with security practitioners, customers, policymakers, and the public. This is both a strategic and hands-on role. The right person will be comfortable defining a long-term communications strategy, building the systems and relationships needed to execute it, and personally leading through major launches, technical disclosures, and fast-moving issues. This role reports to the Head of Communications, Business and is based in San Francisco, CA. We use a hybrid work model of 3 days per week in the office and offer relocation assistance. In this role, you will: Define and lead communications strategy for OpenAI’s cybersecurity work, from global narrative development through launches, research, threat reporting, and sustained storytelling. Build a clear, differentiated story about how OpenAI can