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Your primary focus will be to increase our research velocity and ensure that our deployments are successful and collaborative with our partners.\n\nThis 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.\n\nIn this role, you will:\n\nBuild and share a deep understanding of frontier AI model development\n\nPartner with internal and external teams to drive deployment of the latest OpenAI technologies\n\nManage critical inquiries from both technical and non-technical partners\n\nDesign and implement simple, scalable processes that solve complex problems\n\nDeliver high-profile pipeline and tooling projects on tight deadlines\n\nWork across research and engineering to align goals, streamline communication, and support business priorities\n\nYou might thrive in this role if you:\n\nHave experience in a strategic partnerships and technical program management role\n\nCan right-size process to align stakeholders while ensuring speed of delivery (action-oriented)\n\nAre fantastic at building cross-functional relationships and having empathy for the many roles involved in deploying research\n\nCan design and build tools (via code / no-code / AI) to facilitate internal processes\n\nAre a great communicator across writtens.\n\nAre engaged and curious about the rapidly evolving AI landscape.\n\nSpecific technologies / skills that will be helpful in this role\n\nExperience with agentic models or OpenAI LLM APIs\n\nNo-Code/Low-Code Platforms: e.g. Airtable, Zapier, Retool\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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