{"schemaVersion":"jobsearcher.job.v1","id":"a454113c7816ab8974b90d7e","url":"https://jobsearcher.com/jobs/a454113c7816ab8974b90d7e","canonicalUrl":"https://jobsearcher.com/jobs/a454113c7816ab8974b90d7e","title":"Technical Program Manager, Foundations Data and Operations","description":"Foundations - San Francisco\n\nAbout the Team\n\nThe Search research team focuses on building the systems that help AI systems findation from the world. We aim to make answers more useful and grounded for more than a billion ChatGPT users.\n\nAbout the Role\n\nWe’re looking for a Technical Program Manager to lead a broad portfolio of research and engineering programs that power search. You’ll partner closely with researchers, engineers, and product leaders to turn ambitious goals into clear plans, resolve dependencies, and move complex technical work forward.\n\nThis role combines technical depthed tradeoffs and build practical ways of working that support a fast-moving research environment.\n\nThis role is based in San Francisco, CA.\n\nIn this role, you will:\n\nLead programs across model training, retrieval, large-scale indexing, and search infrastructure.\n\nTranslate evolving goals into prioritized workstreams with clear owners, milestones, dependencies, and resource needs.\n\nPartner with researchance, timelines, and cost.\n\nEstablish program success metrics and use them to guide priorities and track improvements in coverage, answer quality, responsiveness, and trust.\n\nIdentify technical and cross-functional risks early, drive blockers to resolution, and communicate progress and decisions clearly to teams and leadership.\n\nCoordinate with product, policy, legal, and external partners on data access, use, and presentation, helping teams resolve decisions that span technical and non-technical domains.\n\nManage dependencies with data providers and build repeatable processes that help research and engineering teams execute effectively as the search effort grows.\n\nYou might thrive in this role if you:\n\nHave substantial technical experience and a record of delivering complex programs across multiple engineering teams and a large technical stack.\n\nHave worked on searchation retrieval, indexing, or similarly complex systems. Direct experience with consumer or enterprise search products is especially valuable.\n\nCan understand technical architectures and tradeoffs, ask useful questions, and communicate effectively with both engineers and researchers.\n\nBring clarity to ambiguous research problems and adapt plans as teams learn, while maintaining ownership and momentum.\n\nCombine product judgment with program discipline, connecting technical decisions to the quality of the user experience.\n\nAre resourceful and hands-on, comfortable moving between program strategy and the details needed to unblock execution.\n\nBuild trust across functions, communicate clearly, and influence decisions across teams with different priorities.\n\nAbout OpenAI\n\nOpenAI 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 the full spectrum of humanity.\n\nWe are an equal opportunity employeration, or other applicable legally protected characteristic.\n\nBackground checks for applicants will be administered in accordance with applicable lawation technology systems and related data security obligations.\n\nTo notify OpenAI that you believe this job posting is non-compliant. No response will be provided to inquiries unrelated to job posting compliance.\n\nWe are committed to providing reasonable accommodations to applicants with disabilities.\n\nAt 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. 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