Technical Program Manager, Strategic Deployment Infrastructure

Company: OpenAI
Location: San Francisco
Posted on: June 1, 2025

Job Description:

Technical Program Manager, Strategic Deployment Infrastructure - OpenAICareersTechnical Program Manager, Strategic Deployment InfrastructureTechnical Program Management - San FranciscoApply now (opens in a new window)About the TeamIf AGI is about AI transforming our economy, how close are we, really? What's still missing, and how do we get there?OpenAI's new Strategic Deployment team tackles exactly these questions.We push frontier models to be more capable, reliable, and aligned-then deploy them to transform real-world, high-impact domains.
About the RoleAs a Technical Program Manager for Strategic Deployment, your role is to manage, align, and track critical milestones and deliverables across all involved teams. You will be responsible for managing & coordinating the overall body of work across many parallel programs/projects, ensuring cohesive communication and consistent alignment across all teams in platform, to all cross functional teams, and up to leadership.

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:

• Drive research initiatives and execute complex projects.
• Act as the connective tissue to enhance model capability deployment.
• Create and execute a compute roadmap for your team.
• Ensure top priorities are resourced and leverage new research opportunities.You might thrive in this role if you:
  • Possess a degree in a hard science, or have a demonstrated track record of engineering expertise.
  • Demonstrated ability to serve as the go-to person solely responsible for driving and delivering complex projects.
  • Have worked with external stakeholders who were important to manage for success of a project.
  • Coordinated cross-functional teams to ensure alignment and on-time delivery.
  • Have an extensive track record of successfully delivering high-profile, technical projects against tight deadlines.
  • Are technically adept and have effectively partnered with engineering or fundamental research teams of the highest caliber.
  • Expertise in designing and implementing simple, scalable processes that solve complex problems.
  • Are relentlessly resourceful and thrive in ambiguous, fast-paced environments.
  • Have exceptional written and verbal communication skills.
  • Are interested in and thoughtful about the impacts of AGI.About OpenAIOpenAI is an AI research and deployment company dedicated to ensuring that general-purpose artificial intelligence benefits all of humanity. We push the boundaries of the capabilities of AI systems and seek to safely deploy them to the world through our products. AI is an extremely powerful tool that must be created with safety and human needs at its core, and to achieve our mission, we must encompass and value the many different perspectives, voices, and experiences that form the full spectrum of humanity.We are an equal opportunity employer, and we do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, age, veteran status, disability, genetic information, or other applicable legally protected characteristic.For additional information, please see OpenAI's Affirmative Action and Equal Employment Opportunity Policy Statement .Qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment in accordance with applicable law, including the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers, and the California Fair Chance Act. For unincorporated Los Angeles County workers: we reasonably believe that criminal history may have a direct, adverse and negative relationship with the following job duties, potentially resulting in the withdrawal of a conditional offer of employment: protect computer hardware entrusted to you from theft, loss or damage; return all computer hardware in your possession (including the data contained therein) upon termination of employment or end of assignment; and maintain the confidentiality of proprietary, confidential, and non-public information. In addition, job duties require access to secure and protected information technology systems and related data security obligations.We are committed to providing reasonable accommodations to applicants with disabilities, and requests can be made via this link .OpenAI Global Applicant Privacy PolicyAt OpenAI, we believe artificial intelligence has the potential to help people solve immense global challenges, and we want the upside of AI to be widely shared. Join us in shaping the future of technology.Compensation$285K - $355K + Offers EquityApply now (opens in a new window)
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