Lead Strategist in United States

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 help customers build the confidence and practical skills to use OpenAI effectively, change how work gets done, and realize lasting value. About the Role Helping organizations adopt AI takes more than access to powerful technology. People across the workforce need the skills and confidence to use it well. Within Customer Education, you will lead the enterprise learning program and team. You will set direction, develop the team, and build a clear, high-quality learning portfolio that moves customers from first learning to confident use and meaningful business impact. This is a rare opportunity to define how customers learn with OpenAI at global scale, alongside the teams shaping the technology. In this role, you will: Lead and develop a high-performing Customer Learning team. Own the customer-facing Learn experience, curriculum, and program portfolio—from strategy through results. Turn priority customer needs into role-based tracks, paths, and high-quality programs. Make the portfolio easy to understand, with clear starting points, progression, and relationships among experiences. Lead how learning reaches customers through owned and partner channels. Use customer and product evidence to measure impact and decide what to build, scale, improve, defer, or stop. You might thrive in this role if you: Build strong teams, grow talent, and create accountability. Shape education strategy from customer needs and turn it into programs with measurable impact. Make clear portfolio choices about investment, capacity, and focus. Turn complex learning into clear journeys customers can understand and use. Reach customers through owned and partner channels, building trust across teams. Qualifications

About the Team OpenAI, in close collaboration with our capital partners, is embarking on a journey to build the world’s most advanced AI infrastructure ecosystem. The Industrial Compute team is central to this mission, setting the core infra strategy and implementing this vision. From site selection to the buildout process, this team sits at the intersection of commercial, technical, strategy, and operations, interacting with teams and executives inside and outside of OpenAI. About the Role OpenAI is seeking a Real Estate Lead to own land acquisition strategy and site-control execution for our next-generation data center portfolio across the U.S. This role sits at the front end of infrastructure delivery, translating market intelligence, broker/developer relationships, and commercial judgment into credible shovel-ready positions that meet OpenAI’s power, land, permitting, and expansion requirements. The Real Estate Lead will not operate as a traditional transactional real estate function. The scope is to help shape where OpenAI can build, secure the right land positions early, structure defensible commercial terms, and coordinate the legal, technical, and development work required to move opportunities from sourced lead to controlled site and ultimately to readiness handoff. This is an individual contributor lead role and does not have direct reports initially. The role also owns market prioritization and portfolio-level acquisition strategy across target geographies, and is expected to run multiple negotiations in parallel while translating site-control work into executive-ready acquisition recommendations. Key Responsibilities Own market prioritization and portfolio acquisition strategy across target geographies, including scenario analysis for speed, scale, expansion potential, and risk-adjusted economics. Proactively source and evaluate land parcels at scale to support long-term data center growth across priority markets. Build and manage a national pipeline of

About the role We are building a higher education researcher motion that helps funded labs adopt OpenAI across core research workflows. This role will develop relationships with principal investigators, researchers, research software engineers, research computing teams, and university technology leaders, then translate high-value use cases into sustained Pro, Codex, API, and ChatGPT Edu usage. This is a hybrid business development and program management role. You will identify and qualify priority labs, design phased access and fellows programs, run pilots, remove technical and institutional blockers, and create repeatable paths from individual researchers to lab- and institution-level adoption. Additionally, this role will launch and manage a community of researchers with events, communications and support. In this role, you will: Build a pipeline of funded labs, research centers, and technical champions at priority R1 universities; qualify opportunities based on workflow value, funding path, influence, and expansion potential. Run discovery with researchers and university stakeholders to understand workflows, data and security needs, procurement constraints, and success criteria. Design and operate phased access and fellows programs, including eligibility, selection, offer mechanics, onboarding, office hours, community programming, and pilot goals. Translate research workflows into effective use of Pro, Codex, API, and ChatGPT Edu in partnership with Solutions, Product, and Education account teams. Manage pilots end to end, remove trust, funding, and technical blockers, and drive measurable activation, retention, and expansion. Turn early usage into product feedback, workflow documentation, peer proof, case studies, and repeatable enablement. Build clear handoffs and expansion paths from researcher to lab to institution; track fellow selection, activation, retained usage, workflow proof, conversion, and expansion. You might thrive in this role if you: Relevant exp

About the Team The Ads Support Delivery team is responsible for helping successfully operate and grow on our Ads product. This includes technical guidance, troubleshooting complex delivery and monetization issues, and partnering closely with Product, Engineering, Trust & Safety and Go-To-Market teams to resolve customer-impacting problems and improve the platform over time. The team’s mission is to deliver a high-quality customer experience at scale by combining strong human support with automation, self-service, and AI-enabled workflows, while maintaining high operational rigor. About the Role: As a Support Delivery Lead for Ads, you will lead a team responsible for end-to-end support delivery across the ads ecosystem, including campaign setup, delivery, billing, measurement, and policy navigation. You will set the operational bar for quality, responsiveness, and consistency; coach and grow the team; and translate support signals into actionable improvements with Engineering, Product, and Go-To-Market partners. 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: Lead and support a team of Ads support engineers, ensuring they have the tools, clarity, and coaching needed to operate at a high bar in a technically complex domain. Set clear expectations and operating standards, run recurring performance reviews, and build development plans that grow both technical depth (ad tech fluency) and customer-facing excellence. Design and continuously improve support coverage for ad buyers, ensuring the team can diagnose delivery issues and monetization and integration issues with equal rigor. Act as the bridge between Support Delivery, Engineering, Product, and Go-To-Market teams. Drive alignment on priorities, escalation paths, launch readiness, tooling improvements and mechanisms to reduce repeated customer pain points. Partner with engineering teams

About OpenAI OpenAI’s mission is to ensure that general-purpose artificial intelligence benefits all of humanity. We build models and products that help people learn, create, and solve problems—and we work to do so safely and responsibly. About the Team OpenAI’s products are talked about by people, not just press and pundits. More than 900 million people use our tools each week, learning from one other and passing along what works. Their stories shape our reputation and encourage others to try our products. Our community team builds direct relationships & channels with people who use our tech then amplifies their stories and use cases so peers can learn from them and channels their insights to our product and research teams. About the Role We are seeking an exceptional Technical Community Program Manager to help manage and scale a high-signal community of advanced ChatGPT Pro users. This is a hands-on, technically fluent role at the intersection of community-building, product enablement, user research, product education, and editorial storytelling. You do not need to be a full-time software engineer, but you should be comfortable understanding technical workflows, asking sharp technical questions, using the latest AI tools, and helping advanced users explain what they are building. You will report to the Head of Pro Subscriber Community and will be based in New York City. In this role, you will: Run and grow a high-signal community Help manage and deepen engagement with the ChatGPT Pro cohort of advanced users across disciplines Design and execute high-touch community programming, including product demos, office hours, show-and-tell sessions, peer-learning formats, and in-person events Build repeatable systems for onboarding, engagement, retention, and member communications Build deep relationships with exceptional users Identify, recruit, and onboard new individuals doing high-impact work with ChatGPT and Codex Conduct in-depth interviews and maintain ongoing r

About the Team OpenAI’s Forward Deployed Engineering (FDE) team turns research breakthroughs into production-grade systems. We embed deeply with customers to solve high-leverage problems and act as the delivery engine for our most complex large-scale engagements. We move quickly from prototype to production and surface reusable patterns that shape our platform. We operate at the intersection of deployment and development – working closely with OpenAI Research, Product and Partnerships. About the Role As a Technical Deployment Lead (TDL), you will define how OpenAI delivers complex systems to Semiconductor customers. You will own how solutions are scoped, built, shipped, and adopted across high-value engineering workflows such as RTL design, verification, and physical implementation. You’ll translate business outcomes into a technical plan, run day-to-day execution across FDEs, Researchers, and Customer Engineers, and partner with customer teams to ensure delivery supports their goals. You will focus on the semiconductor vertical to deploy next-generation AI capabilities. You will own delivery end-to-end: embedding with customers to map workflows and success criteria, ensuring components ship on time, and leading readiness and change management for adoption. You’ll track progress, manage dependencies, make sequencing decisions, and drive 0→1 prototypes through MVP and scale. You will also share field insights with Product and Research to guide roadmap and priorities. Success will be measured first and foremost by impact - deployments that deliver measurable value against customer goals, drive adoption, and become critical to their workflows. Additional measures of success include delivery reliability (milestones hit, low reopen/churn), operating leverage (patterns reused across deployments), judgment under pressure, and product impact (field signal that shifts roadmaps/architectures). This is a high-trust, high-autonomy role. Success requires deep technical project m

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 OpenAI is evaluating multiple infrastructure pathways, including powered land, colo/BTS, and NeoCloud opportunities. The Site Readiness & Development team provides the diligence layer needed to compare opportunities, identify risk, and support credible deployment decisions across those pathways. About the Role The NeoCloud & Colo Due Diligence Lead will evaluate third-party infrastructure opportunities where OpenAI is considering deployment through NeoCloud, colo, or BTS structures. This role will focus on facility and deployment readiness, including MEP readiness, rack strategy, developer capability, facility design, power deliverability, schedule credibility, and operating assumptions. Unlike the land diligence team, this role is centered on technical and operational readiness of third-party infrastructure rather than greenfield site master planning, civil development, and entitlement strategy. This is an individual contributor lead role and does not have direct reports initially. The role determines whether each opportunity is fit-for-use and fit-for-service against OpenAI facility, rack, power, network, reliability, and operational standards; identifies material deficiencies and tracks remediation with developers/operators; and evaluates commissioning, validation, AHJ/code, and deployment interfaces such as structured cabling, network readiness, and high-density rack support where relevant. Key Responsibilities Lead diligence on NeoCloud, colo, and BTS opportunities across technical and operational readiness dimensions. Assess each opportunity against OpenAI facility, rack, power, network, reliability, and operational standards to determine deployment fit. Validate MEP readiness, rack deployment strategy, facility design assumptions, power deliverability, and schedule credibility. Identify material deficiencies and work with developers/operators to define remediation plans, owners, timing, and residual risk. Review reliability, availabilit

About the Team OpenAI, in close collaboration with our capital partners, is embarking on a journey to build the world’s most advanced AI infrastructure ecosystem. The Infrastructure team is central to this mission, setting the core strategy and implementing the vision. From site selection to deployment to operations, this team sits at the intersection of commercial, technical, and operational domains, interacting with experts and executives inside and outside of OpenAI. We design and operate mission-critical facilities that support cutting-edge AI workloads at scale. About the Role We are seeking a Facilities Operations Lead to support the commissioning, deployment, and long-term operation of our next-generation AI data centers. This role bridges the interface between data center construction and hardware landing, ensuring seamless integration of mission-critical infrastructure with hardware deployment timelines. You will define and execute commissioning plans, support infrastructure bring-up, and take ownership of operations and maintenance for cutting-edge, large-scale, AI data centers. You will collaborate closely with design, construction, and hardware teams to define repeatable processes for new data center builds and lead hands-on operations to uphold the performance and reliability of our deployed infrastructure. Key Responsibilities Define and execute sequences of operations, commissioning steps, and bring-up processes for mission-critical data center facilities. Interface with the design and hardware teams to define deployment procedures tailored to each data center and hardware configuration. Oversee installation, commissioning, and operational readiness of large-scale data center campuses. Manage monitoring, maintenance, and quality control of the data center infrastructure, including high-performance liquid cooling systems. Develop on-site operations staffing strategy. Develop and enforce procedures for planed and unplanned downtime and SLAs for critical

About the team OpenAI’s Forward Deployed Engineering (FDE) team turns research breakthroughs into production-grade systems. We embed deeply with customers to solve high-leverage problems and act as the delivery engine for our most complex large-scale engagements. We move quickly from prototype to production and surface reusable patterns that shape our platform. We operate at the intersection of deployment and development – working closely with OpenAI Research, Product and Partnerships. About the Role As a Technical Deployment Lead (TDL), you will define how OpenAI delivers complex systems to customers. You will own how they are built, shipped, and adopted. You’ll translate business outcomes into a technical plan, run day-to-day execution across FDEs, Researchers, and Customer Engineers, and partner with customer teams to ensure delivery supports their goals. You will own delivery end-to-end: embedding with customers to map workflows and success criteria, ensuring components ship on time, and leading readiness and change management for adoption. You’ll track progress, manage dependencies, make sequencing decisions, and drive 0→1 prototypes through MVP and scale. You will also share field insights with Product and Research to guide roadmap and priorities. Success will be measured first and foremost by impact - deployments that deliver measurable value against customer goals, drive adoption, and become critical to their workflows. Additional measures of success include delivery reliability (milestones hit, low reopen/churn), operating leverage (patterns reused across deployments), judgment under pressure, and product impact (field signal that shifts roadmaps/architectures). This is a high-trust, high-autonomy role. Success requires deep technical project management expertise, extreme ownership of outcomes, and an ability to immerse in customer workflows and partner with customer teams to solve complex engineering problems at pace. This role is based in San Francisco. W

About the Role We’re looking for a Procurement Enablement Lead to improve how employees and stakeholders navigate procurement at OpenAI. This role partners across Procurement, Finance, Legal, Security, Privacy, and Enterprise Technology to simplify workflows, improve guidance, and support scalable procurement experiences across the procurement lifecycle. You’ll translate procurement policies and operational requirements into clearer processes, better-enabled systems, and more intuitive employee experiences that reduce friction while strengthening consistency and controls as OpenAI continues to grow. This role is ideal for someone who combines operational judgment, process design, and strong cross-functional partnership skills. You should be comfortable working in evolving environments where systems and workflows are still being built and continuously improved. A key part of the role will be identifying opportunities to use AI and automation to streamline workflows, reduce manual work, and improve service delivery across Procurement operations. This role is based in San Francisco, CA. We use a hybrid work model of 3 days per week in the office and offer relocation assistance to new employees. In this role, you will: Partner across Procurement, Finance, Legal, Security, Privacy, and Enterprise Technology to improve how procurement work gets requested, routed, approved, and supported across the spend lifecycle. Help design and improve procurement intake, guidance, and workflow experiences that make it easier for employees and stakeholders to navigate procurement processes. Translate procurement policies, operational needs, stakeholder feedback, and operational insights into clear business requirements for workflows, automation, reporting, analytics, and process improvements. Partner with Enterprise Technology and tool owners to support workflow configuration improvements across procurement systems, including approvals, routing, SLAs, escalation paths, exception handlin

About the team OpenAI’s Forward Deployed Engineering (FDE) team turns research breakthroughs into production-grade systems. We embed deeply with customers to solve high-leverage problems and act as the delivery engine for our most complex large-scale engagements. We move quickly from prototype to production and surface reusable patterns that shape our platform. We operate at the intersection of deployment and development – working closely with OpenAI Research, Product and Partnerships. About the Role As a Technical Deployment Lead (TDL), you will define how OpenAI delivers complex systems to customers. You will own how they are built, shipped, and adopted. You’ll translate business outcomes into a technical plan, run day-to-day execution across FDEs, Researchers, and Customer Engineers, and partner with customer teams to ensure delivery supports their goals. You will own delivery end-to-end: embedding with customers to map workflows and success criteria, ensuring components ship on time, and leading readiness and change management for adoption. You’ll track progress, manage dependencies, make sequencing decisions, and drive 0→1 prototypes through MVP and scale. You will also share field insights with Product and Research to guide roadmap and priorities. Success will be measured first and foremost by impact - deployments that deliver measurable value against customer goals, drive adoption, and become critical to their workflows. Additional measures of success include delivery reliability (milestones hit, low reopen/churn), operating leverage (patterns reused across deployments), judgment under pressure, and product impact (field signal that shifts roadmaps/architectures). This is a high-trust, high-autonomy role. Success requires deep technical project management expertise, extreme ownership of outcomes, and an ability to immerse in customer workflows and partner with customer teams to solve complex engineering problems at pace. This role is based in NYC. We use a hy

About the Team The Support team is central to ensuring that our customers' experience with our products is nothing short of exceptional. 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 individual customers to early-stage startups and established global enterprises. Given OpenAI’s breakneck shipping cadence and growth – and the expectation that it will only accelerate – our ability to architect automation systems and agentic workflows for scale is central to our ability to maintain exceptional support quality in the face of AGI. About the Role We are seeking a Support Operations Lead who combines operational leadership, systems thinking, vendor management, and hands-on execution. You’ll own service health, automation programs, partner and vendor management. In addition to delivering high-quality service, you’ll identify opportunities to reduce manual work, experiment with tools and help operationalize AI across support at scale. This is not a traditional support operations lead role. We’re looking for someone to help us define the future of support, who thrive at the intersection of team/project management, systems building, data science/engineering, and with deep craft experience in the support operations space. 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: Lead and evolve organizational design for our frontline operations across partner and vendor management, coaching teams to expand automation and deliver measurable capacity gains. Lead multi-site partner management, including commercial ownership, capacity planning and workfor

About the Team OpenAI’s Hardware organization develops system and infrastructure solutions designed for the unique demands of advanced AI workloads. We work closely with research, software, and external hardware partners to shape the next generation of AI systems, from silicon through full-scale deployments. Our team focuses on understanding and optimizing performance across the full system stack—ensuring that architectural decisions are grounded in rigorous, quantitative analysis of real-world workloads. About the Role We are seeking a Performance Modeling Lead to build and lead a small, high-impact team responsible for answering forward-looking architectural questions across AI infrastructure systems. You will develop modeling frameworks and methodologies to evaluate system-level tradeoffs and guide key design decisions. Your work will directly influence reference architectures, vendor designs, and long-term infrastructure strategy. This role sits at the intersection of AI workloads, system architecture, and quantitative modeling, and requires strong technical judgment, ownership, and the ability to translate complex analysis into clear, actionable guidance. 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. Key Responsibilities Build and own a performance modeling framework/toolchain to evaluate AI systems across multiple levels of abstraction. Analyze and quantify architectural tradeoffs across compute, memory, networking, storage, and system topology. Develop performance models to guide decisions on: scale-up vs. scale-out architectures interconnect and network design memory hierarchy and system balance. Translate modeling outputs into clear recommendations for internal teams and external hardware vendors. Influence reference designs and vendor roadmaps through data-driven insights. Partner closely with machine learning, systems, and hardware teams to understand workload characte

About the Team The Future of Computing Research team is an applied research team in the Consumer Devices group focused on developing new methods and models to support our vision as we advance forward in our mission of building AGI that benefits all of humanity. About the Role As a Technical Lead on the Future of Computing Research team, you will work together with both the best ML researchers in the world and the greatest design talent of our generation to push the frontier of model capabilities. This role is based in San Francisco, CA. We follow a hybrid model with 3 days a week in the office and offer relocation assistance to new employees. In this role, you will: Evaluate and select silicon platforms (GPUs, NPUs, and specialized accelerators) for on-device and edge deployment of OpenAI models. Work closely with research teams to co-design model architectures that meet real-world deployment constraints such as latency, memory, power, and bandwidth. Analyze and model system performance, identifying tradeoffs between model design, memory hierarchy, compute throughput, and hardware capabilities. Partner with hardware vendors and internal infrastructure teams to bring up new accelerators and ensure efficient execution of transformer workloads. Build and lead a team of engineers responsible for implementing the low-level inference stack, including kernel development and runtime systems. Run through the necessary walls to take nascent research capabilities and turn them into capabilities we can build on top of. You might thrive in this role if you: Have experience evaluating or deploying workloads on GPUs, NPUs, or other specialized accelerators. Understand the performance characteristics of transformer models, including attention, KV-cache behavior, and memory bandwidth requirements. Have designed or optimized high-performance compute systems, such as inference engines, distributed runtimes, or hardware-aware ML pipelines. Have experience building or leading teams work