Manager, Applied AI Architect (India)
AI research and deployment company building and deploying frontier AI products, including ChatGPT, Codex, and its API platform.
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About OpenAI
OpenAI’s mission is to ensure artificial general intelligence benefits all of humanity. It consists of the nonprofit OpenAI Foundation and OpenAI Group, a public benefit corporation governed by the Foundation.
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Candidate Availability
Required and preferred rules are kept separate and reflect the wording in the original posting.
About the Role
You will lead a team of Applied AI Architects responsible for technical strategy, customer journeys and production value for large enterprise customers. You will set the operating model for technical account plans across ChatGPT Enterprise, the OpenAI API, Codex and agentic solutions, partner with Sales leadership to prioritize portfolios and allocate resources, serve as an executive technical sponsor, and mobilize specialists across the company to deliver a cohesive customer experience.
Requirements
- Deep technical acumen in modern AI systems, agentic applications, cloud architecture, APIs, data integration, identity, security, privacy and evaluation
- 10+ years in customer-facing technical roles such as solutions architecture, solutions engineering, technical account leadership, AI deployment or consulting
- 4+ years of people-management experience in customer-facing technical teams
- Experience guiding enterprises from discovery to production adoption
- Outstanding executive communication and presentation skills
- Ability to lead a complex portfolio and make resource-allocation decisions
- Strong architectural judgment
- Strong cross-functional partnership skills
Responsibilities
- Hire, coach and develop a team of Applied AI Architects
- Define and refine the strategy and operating model for Applied AI Architecture teams
- Partner with Sales leadership and Account Directors to prioritize accounts and allocate technical resources
- Ensure architects own technical account plans, milestones, adoption priorities, account health and expansion
- Lead complex customer journeys from use-case qualification to production
- Coach the team on AI architectures spanning models, data, integration, identity, security, privacy, governance, evaluation and deployment
- Build relationships with C-suite and board-level stakeholders and serve as executive technical sponsor
- Mobilize specialists across deployment, product, engineering, research, security, legal and partners
- Establish a view of portfolio health and measurable customer impact
- Translate field patterns into feedback for Product, Engineering, Research and go-to-market teams
- Foster a culture of responsible AI deployment and clear ownership
