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 San Francisco. We use a hybrid work model of 3 days in the office per week. We offer relocation assistance. Travel up to 50% is required. 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 Python, JavaScript,
Jobs in United States
Lead Technical Program Manager Data Consultant Manager in San Francisco
419 active opportunities · Updated September 2026
Showing
15 jobs
Explore current lead technical program manager data consultant manager jobs in San Francisco. Filter by work mode, employment type, experience, department, date posted and distance.
Hiring demand
70/100
rising · 106 related jobs
Hiring trend
+78.9%
Job postings compared with the previous 30 days
Remote options
22.6%
Share of matching jobs listed as remote
Typical salary
$190K – $190K/yr
Based on 11 salary observations
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 early-stage startups to established global enterprises. About the Role As a Product Engagement Manager on the User Operations team, you will lead a team of Product Engagement Specialists responsible for ensuring smooth, successful product launches across internal and external teams. You’ll be the glue connecting product teams and support operations, equipping teams with the tools and knowledge needed to support new product rollouts. You’ll build scalable feedback loops that capture the voice of the user and translate insights into actionable product improvements, and ensure that frontline teams have the knowledge and skills to deliver accurate, delightful customer interactions at scale. We’re looking for someone who thrives at the intersection of product management, team enablement, and customer advocacy, and who enjoys working cross-functionally in a fast-paced, evolving environment. This person will manage the day-to-day work while also helping architect the systems needed to scale it. The successful candidate will be a leader-coach who can lead a small team while continuing to perform individual contributor work. 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 a team coordinating product launches across internal and external teams, ensuring seamless execution and support readiness. Set the team’s strategy and priorities, translate them into c
ABOUT BASETEN Baseten powers mission-critical inference for the world's most dynamic AI companies, like Cursor, Notion, OpenEvidence, Abridge, Clay, Gamma and Writer. By uniting applied AI research, flexible infrastructure, and seamless developer tooling, we enable companies operating at the frontier of AI to bring cutting-edge models into production. We're growing quickly and recently raised our $1.5B Series F , led by Altimeter Capital, Conviction Partners, and Spark Capital. Join us and help build the platform engineers turn to to ship AI products. THE ROLE Lead large-scale brand campaigns across digital, events, and out-of-home. Partner with engineering and product marketing on major product launches. Turn complex technical ideas into clear, compelling visual communication. Evolve the Baseten visual identity into a brand system that scales. Own projects end-to-end, from concept through launch, collaborating directly with marketing, product, engineering, and leadership. Shape our employer brand and help define how new hires experience Baseten. Raise the bar for craft across every customer touchpoint. ABOUT YOU You have a portfolio of exceptional work with outstanding visual craft and attention to detail. You care deeply about quality and sweat the details. You communicate ideas clearly and thrive in collaborative environments. You know when to build systems, not just execute on assets. You default to ownership and are comfortable leading highly cross-functional projects from concept through launch. You're excited by technical products and know how to make complex ideas feel consumable without oversimplifying them. You thrive in a fast-moving environment with a high bar for quality. You have strong opinions about design and can articulate why something works - and why it doesn't. BONUS Motion design and animation experience Experience designing for developers or highly technical audiences. BENEFITS Competitive compensation, including meaningful equity. 100% covera
ABOUT BASETEN Baseten powers mission-critical inference for the world's most dynamic AI companies, like Cursor, Notion, OpenEvidence, Abridge, Clay, Gamma and Writer. By uniting applied AI research, flexible infrastructure, and seamless developer tooling, we enable companies operating at the frontier of AI to bring cutting-edge models into production. We're growing quickly and recently raised our $1.5B Series F , led by Altimeter Capital, Conviction Partners, and Spark Capital. Join us and help build the platform engineers turn to to ship AI products. THE ROLE As Manager (Player & Coach) of the Solution Architect team, you will lead and mentor a team of Solution Architects who will partner closely with Sales and customers to translate business needs into technical solutions, run technical discovery, and guide repeatable deployments and proofs of value for customers. Applying both hands-on technical ownership and managerial leadership, you will guide your team through the processes of owning discovery calls, demos, technical scoping and driving POC’s through to execution as well as designing, deploying, and managing high performance, low latency AI applications on Baseten’s platform. You will also partner with product, infrastructure, and other customer engineering teams to ensure that large language models (LLMs) and other generative AI systems deliver best-in-class performance, reliability, and cost efficiency in production environments. EXAMPLE INITIATIVES Take a look at these blog posts written by members of our Forward Deployed Engineering team: Forward Deployed Engineering on the frontier of AI The fastest, most accurate Whisper transcription Deploy production-ready model servers from Docker images Deploy custom ComfyUI workflows as APIs RESPONSIBILITIES Leadership Lead, mentor, and grow a team of Solution Architects, providing guidance on technical direction, project execution, and professional development. Set clear goals and ensure timely, high-quality d
About the Role As a Sales Manager, Energy, you will build and lead a team of Account Directors focused on strategic growth across utilities, oil and gas, renewables, power generation, and energy services. The team will partner with complex organizations modernizing operations, improving reliability, accelerating the energy transition, and adopting enterprise AI responsibly at scale. You’ll help the team navigate regulated enterprise sales cycles, deepen relationships with business, technology, operations, engineering, security, and risk leaders, and drive adoption of OpenAI’s platform across safety-conscious, asset-intensive organizations. Key Responsibilities Recruit, develop, and lead a high-performing team of Energy Account Directors. Create a strong coaching culture through deal reviews, account strategy sessions, ride-alongs, and structured 1:1s. Define the Energy GTM strategy, including subsector segmentation, account prioritization, partner strategy, executive engagement, and territory planning. Drive disciplined pipeline generation, forecast accuracy, and operational rigor. Guide multi-stakeholder opportunities involving operations, engineering, digital, data, security, legal, risk, procurement, and executive leadership. Help customers translate AI and API capabilities into measurable outcomes across asset and field operations, grid and generation planning, engineering knowledge, customer service, commercial workflows, and enterprise productivity. Partner with Product, Solutions Architecture, Technical Success, Legal, Security, Finance, and policy experts to support responsible deployment. Provide structured feedback on customer requirements, integration blockers, reliability and governance needs, and emerging industry trends. What We’re Looking For 15+ years of enterprise sales, GTM, or sales leadership experience. Proven experience building and scaling enterprise sales teams responsible for complex strategic accounts and large revenue targets. Deep underst
About the team The Capital Markets team develops the financing strategy, solutions, and partnerships needed to support our expanding global AI infrastructure platform and long-term investment plans. About the role We’re looking for a structured finance professional to serve as a technical execution engine for a lean, high-impact capital markets team. In this role, you’ll own the models, analysis, diligence, process management, and key execution workstreams behind standardized or more “vanilla” financings, while partnering with senior transactors on more complex transactions. This is not a junior analyst role. You’ll need the experience and maturity to work directly with senior leaders, banks, investors, counsel, and advisors without multiple layers of review. You should be highly capable in the details, strong under transaction intensity, and ready to help build financing processes for a rapidly scaling AI infrastructure platform. What you’ll do Translate financing objectives into clear analyses, recommendations, timelines, and deliverables. Support senior transactors on complex financings, including structuring, documentation, diligence, negotiation, and closing. Lead analysis, diligence, process tracking, and execution workstreams for financing transactions. Own transaction models, including debt sizing, cash-flow waterfalls, sensitivities, covenant analysis, and scenario evaluation. Work directly with internal stakeholders, banks, investors, counsel, advisors, and other counterparties. Review transaction documentation and help ensure commercial, financial, and diligence details are reflected accurately. Manage high-volume, detail-intensive workstreams in a lean team environment. Help develop repeatable tools, processes, and analytical infrastructure as the capital markets function scales. You might thrive in this role if you have At least 4-6 years of directly relevant experience in project finance, structured finance, infrastructure finance, private equity, or a
About the Team OpenAI's research training infrastructure powers how our frontier models are trained and evaluated. The Simulation team sits at the intersection between the agentic harness that powers OpenAI's products and the research infrastructure where GPT-next is trained, ensuring that our model's training environment is as realistic as possible. This team owns the integration layer that connects our production harness capabilities into the training stack. The work is highly cross-functional and high leverage: researchers depend on it to run experiments and evaluations reliably as well as to develop the next generation of harness capabilities. Failures in this surface can materially affect training velocity and correctness. About the Role We're looking for a Principal Software Engineer to lead the architecture and evolution of the Simulation Platform. You'll own a critical interface between research and engineering, building the systems, APIs, and operational patterns that let researchers use agentic coding infrastructure safely and effectively in training environments. This role is ideal for a senior backend or infrastructure engineer with strong technical judgment, product sense for highly technical users, and the ability to drive execution across multiple teams. The highest-leverage work is building robust infrastructure that supports and accelerates research without compromising engineering quality. In this role, you will Design, build, and evolve the integration between the Codex harness that powers OpenAI's products and research training infrastructure used for training GPT-next Build a platform for our LLMs to train and be evaluated in simulated environments that mimic their deployment setting as closely as possible, on every axis: agentic harness, compute substrate, timing, tools, data sources, humans in the loop, and more Own major integration surfaces end-to-end, from architecture and API design through rollout, operations, and long-term maintenance Bu
About the Team OpenAI is building the infrastructure foundation for the next generation of AI. The Data Center Engineering team defines the strategy, reference architectures, technical requirements, and delivery standards for the large-scale data centers that support OpenAI research, products, and infrastructure partners. As a Data Center Controls Network Engineer, you will design, validate, and scale the controls and OT network architectures that support high-density AI data centers. You will work across controls systems, OT infrastructure, telemetry, commissioning, deployment, and operations, partnering with mechanical, electrical, IT/networking, security, and external delivery teams. About the Role We are seeking a mid to senior OT Network Engineer with a strong controls systems background to lead the design and operation of resilient, secure, and scalable OT network architectures for high-density AI data centers. This role translates compute, power, cooling, and operational requirements into practical OT network designs, evaluates vendor solutions, and drives technical decisions across controls infrastructure, telemetry, commissioning, and operations. The ideal candidate has strong hands-on experience in mission-critical OT environments, including industrial networking, virtualized infrastructure, and OT network operations, with expertise in routing, switching, segmentation, firewall policy, time synchronization, monitoring, and network lifecycle support. Key Responsibilities Define controls, automation, and OT network requirements for AI data center campuses. Develop reference architectures, engineering standards, and reusable design templates. Review and develop basis-of-design and functional design documents, including OT network diagrams, IP/VLAN schemes, telemetry architectures, data flow diagrams, and commissioning requirements. Design OT and infrastructure network architectures, including physical topology, logical topology, IP addressing, subnetting, VLA
About the Team OpenAI is building the infrastructure foundation for the next generation of AI. The Data Center Engineering team defines the strategy, reference architectures, technical requirements, and delivery standards for the large-scale data centers that support OpenAI research, products, and infrastructure partners. As a Data Center Infrastructure Electrical Engineer, you will help define, validate, and scale the electrical power systems that support high-density AI compute. You will translate evolving compute requirements into practical facility and rack-power architectures, evaluate new technologies and vendor solutions, and drive technical decisions across design, manufacturing validation, construction, commissioning, deployment, and operations. This role is best suited for a senior hands-on engineer with deep experience in mission-critical power systems, strong judgment under ambiguity, and the ability to connect facility infrastructure, hardware requirements, controls, telemetry, reliability, and operations. About the Role We are seeking a senior electrical infrastructure engineer to lead the development of reliable, scalable, and efficient power architectures for high-density, liquid-cooled AI data centers. The ideal candidate has strong practical experience with critical electrical systems at data centers or comparable industrial scale, including medium-voltage and low-voltage distribution, utility interfaces, backup power, UPS and battery systems, rack power delivery, grounding, protection, controls, and monitoring systems. You should be comfortable moving between long-range architecture, detailed engineering review, lab validation, vendor qualification, field deployment, and operational troubleshooting. Key Responsibilities Design and optimize electrical topologies and equipment strategies that reduce cost, accelerate schedules, improve efficiency, increase scalability, and maintain high reliability and maintainability. Review and develop basis-of-des
$261K – $305K/yr
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. Sales Development sits at the front of this motion—where technical curiosity becomes executive engagement and OpenAI’s enterprise relationships begin. About the role We are hiring a Sales Development Manager, AMER to lead a team of SDRs supporting our Large Enterprise business across North America. Reporting into Sales Development leadership, this role will be responsible for coaching and developing a high-performing team focused on generating qualified pipeline and creating strategic enterprise opportunities. This is a foundational front-line leadership role within OpenAI’s enterprise GTM organization. You will help define how we engage prospective customers, convert product and developer interest into enterprise conversations, and scale repeatable outbound and inbound motions across some of the world’s largest organizations. You will partner closely with Sales, Marketing, Solutions Engineering, Partnerships, and Strategy & Operations to drive pipeline generation and help shape the future of OpenAI’s enterprise growth engine. In this role, you will: Lead, coach, and develop a team of SDRs supporting Large Enterprise, Verticals, and Strategic Accounts across AMER Drive high-quality pipeline generation through outbound prospecting, inbound qualification, account-based motions, and product-led signals Establish strong operational rigor around activity metrics,
About the team The Codex Deployment Engineering team helps customers adopt OpenAI's coding tools throughout their software development lifecycle. We act as trusted technical partners, guiding engineering teams as they integrate Codex into their projects and workflows. Our customers span digital-native companies to global enterprises, and we work side-by-side to accelerate how they plan, build, and deliver software. About the Role We are seeking a technically deep, creativity-driven AI Deployment Engineer who is already a power user of AI coding tools and passionate about pushing the boundaries of developer productivity. You will partner directly with engineering leaders and hands-on builders to design, validate, and scale advanced AI workflows, often using Codex to prototype and build the very demos, integrations, and automations customers ultimately adopt. This is a highly cross-functional role that blends technical architecture, product strategy, and customer-facing leadership. You’ll work closely with Sales, Solutions Engineering, Product, Applied Engineering, and the broader Codex organization to advocate for customer needs, shape product direction, and accelerate the successful deployment of intelligent coding systems across some of the world’s most influential companies. In this role, you will: Serve as the primary technical subject matter expert on OpenAI Codex for a portfolio of customers, embedding deeply with them to enable their engineering teams and build coding workflows. Partner directly with customers to design and implement AI-enhanced development workflows, from rapid prototyping through scalable production rollout. Build high-quality demos, reference implementations, and workflow automations, using Codex itself as part of your development process. Lead large-format workshops, technical deep dives, and hands-on enablement sessions that help engineering organizations adopt AI coding tools effectively and safely. Contribute technical content including
About the Team OpenAI’s mission is to ensure that general-purpose artificial intelligence benefits all of humanity. Our Communications 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 OpenAI is seeking an experienced communications professional to join our Platform & Research Communications team. This role will work closely with the Research Communications Lead and partner deeply with safety researchers, alignment researchers, and cross-functional teams to shape how OpenAI’s safety research is understood by researchers, journalists, policymakers, and the broader public. This position is responsible for developing and executing external communications strategies around OpenAI’s safety research—from alignment and evaluations to broader work that helps advance the safe development and deployment of increasingly capable AI systems. The ideal candidate brings strong science or technical fluency, excellent storytelling instincts, and experience helping researchers communicate complex work with clarity, accuracy, and nuance. You will partner closely with research leadership, individual researchers, policy, product, safety, legal, and cross-functional communications teams. This role requires both strategic judgment and hands-on execution in a fast-moving environment where research, public understanding, and high-stakes safety narratives intersect. This role is based in San Francisco, CA and follows a hybrid schedule (three days per week in office). Relocation assistance is available. In this role, you will: Shape Safety Research Narratives Develop clear, credible external narratives around OpenAI’s safety research, including alignment, evaluations, preparedness, interpretability, and other areas connected to the safe development of frontier AI. Translate complex technical work into accessible stories without oversimplifying, overstating impact
About the team: OpenAI’s Hardware organization develops AI-native silicon and system-level solutions for the unique demands of advanced AI workloads. Building on efforts like Jalapeño, the team is developing future generations of AI-native silicon and tightly integrated systems to power the next generation of frontier models. By co-designing chips, systems, tools, and methodologies, the team helps deliver faster, more efficient, and production-ready hardware for OpenAI’s supercomputing platform. About the role: We are seeking an experienced Optical Network Engineer to lead Laser related work within our optical interconnect efforts for large-scale compute systems. The role also requires broad, hands-on optical validation experience across IM/DD-based interconnects, working from lab characterization through production readiness and scaled deployment. In this role you will: Drive laser-focused requirements and technical direction within the broader optical interconnect roadmap. Lead evaluation and validation of optical components and subsystems, including laser-based elements, in lab and production-representative environments. Support end-to-end optical testing for IM/DD interconnects (e.g., module/system bring-up, characterization, debug, and readiness for scale). Work with external partners to align on development milestones, performance targets, and quality expectations. Own technical issue triage and resolution across performance, reliability, and manufacturability topics. Collaborate across internal teams to support integration, rollout, and operational success at scale. You might thrive in this role if you have: Strong experience in laser-focused optical engineering (development, validation, manufacturing readiness, or field support). Broad hands-on background with IM/DD optical technologies and optical test/debug workflows. Experience working with external suppliers/manufacturing partners and production-oriented execution. Demonstrated ability to debug complex t
About the Role The AI Deployment Manager (ADM) - Pilots is a customer-facing role responsible for leading structured, time-bound enterprise AI pilots from initial scoping through final executive readout. This role is focused on helping customers evaluate OpenAI’s products in real-world contexts, identify high-value use cases, and generate clear, decision-ready signals tied to business value. You will design and lead pilot engagements that drive activation, sustained usage, and measurable impact across ChatGPT Enterprise, Codex, and adjacent workflows. This includes partnering with customer stakeholders to define success criteria, guiding users from experimentation to real adoption, and translating pilot outcomes into clear recommendations that support expansion or purchase decisions. This role requires strong judgment, the ability to operate in ambiguity, and a consistent focus on connecting technical capabilities to business outcomes. You will regularly engage both executive stakeholders and working teams, adapting your approach to meet customers where they are and move them forward. In this role, you will: Own the design and execution of enterprise AI pilots, including scoping, cohort definition, and success criteria aligned to a clear commercial decision. Identify and prioritize a small set of high-impact use cases that can generate credible signal within a 30–45 day pilot. Drive activation and sustained engagement across pilot cohorts through targeted enablement, office hours, and workflow-level coaching. Monitor pilot performance and adapt in real time, diagnosing gaps in engagement, use case traction, or stakeholder alignment. Translate pilot signals into clear, executive-ready recommendations, including whether and how the customer should expand. Navigate customer constraints such as security, data access, and competing tools while maintaining pilot momentum. Partner closely with ADs, SEs, and customer stakeholders to align on scope, risks, and next steps. Ca
About the Team The Premium team owns some of the highest-leverage customer-facing levers in ChatGPT’s consumer revenue business, spanning the paid customer journey: helping users understand the value of paid plans, convert with confidence, and continue finding lasting value in their subscription. Our work is highly cross-functional, partnering with Product, Data Science, Design, FinEng, Finance, Legal, Support, and Marketing to improve free-to-paid conversion, renewal, customer lifetime value, and revenue while keeping the experience trustworthy, scalable, and low-friction. In This Role, You Will: Lead and scale an engineering team responsible for some of ChatGPT’s most important subscription and monetization experiences. Own the technical execution for Premium customer experiences across plan merchandising, paywalls, upgrade flows, checkout UX, plan management, renewals, downgrades, and cancellation. Partner with Product and Data Science to run high-quality experiments across upgrade, trial, renewal, downgrade, and cancellation flows. Improve key subscription metrics including conversion, renewal, churn, ARPU, and lifetime value. Build reliable customer-facing Premium experiences for purchase, plan management, renewal, downgrade, cancellation, and access-related states at scale. Partner closely with FinEng and other platform teams to evolve the billing, payments, and entitlement capabilities that power Premium experiences. Collaborate closely with Product, Design, Data Science, Finance, Legal, Support, and Marketing on monetization strategy and execution. You Might Thrive in This Role If You: Have 5+ years of engineering management experience, Have strong technical expertise in backend, frontend, or full-stack development, with experience building growth-oriented features. Have a track record of improving conversion, retention, or monetization through experimentation and data-driven product engineering. Are experienced with subscription products, plan merchandising
Higher-paying openings
Jobs with higher listed pay
Technical Enablement Program Manager
Postman · San Francisco, California, United States
$1.6M – $2M/yr
Sales Enablement Program Manager
Postman · San Francisco, California, United States
From $1.4M/yr
Supply Chain Program Manager (SCPM) - AI Infrastructure
OpenAI · San Francisco, California, United States
$226K – $285K/yr
Staff Technical Program Manager
Sentry · San Francisco, California, United States
$200K – $240K/yr
Related career options
Similar roles with stronger pay
Demand 35/100 · 7 jobs
$4.6M – $4.6M/yr
Salary →Demand 46/100 · 8 jobs
$345K – $345K/yr
Salary →Demand 73/100 · 93 jobs
$294.5K – $294.5K/yr
Salary →Demand 51/100 · 22 jobs
$292.5K – $292.5K/yr
Salary →Demand 45/100 · 9 jobs
$255.7K – $255.7K/yr
Salary →Demand 77/100 · 123 jobs
$242.1K – $242.1K/yr
Salary →Other cities to consider
More places hiring for this role
Get new lead technical program manager data consultant manager jobs in San Francisco, United States by email
Daily job updates · Unsubscribe anytime