Strategic Delivery Lead, Federal Civilian & State and Local Government
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 shape and deliver high-impact AI engagements across federal civilian agencies and state and local governments. You will turn customer priorities into practical deployments and sustained adoption, define scope, milestones and acceptance criteria, coordinate Research, Product, Engineering, Policy, Security and Enablement resources, and communicate progress to executives and working teams. This is an individual contributor role without a sales quota, based in Washington, DC with domestic travel.
Requirements
- 10+ years leading complex technical programs, customer delivery or transformation initiatives, including work with public institutions
- Ability to meet customer access requirements; active DOE Q and/or TS/SCI clearance preferred for national security engagements
- Willingness to travel domestically
- Experience leading AI/ML, enterprise software, API, cloud or digital transformation engagements
- Executive presence and record of influencing senior government leaders
- Technical fluency to evaluate AI use cases
Responsibilities
- Build trusted relationships with senior government leaders and mission teams
- Own delivery plans with milestones, owners and acceptance criteria
- Translate mission needs into requirements and decisions
- Connect customer teams with OpenAI Research, Product and Engineering
- Coordinate Applied AI Architects and engineers on architecture, data, evaluation and deployment
- Build sustained adoption through enablement and repeatable playbooks
- Lead executive reviews and workshops
- Identify and escalate security, data, contractual and resourcing risks
- Prioritize across a matrixed team and make trade-offs
- Coordinate with Account Directors, policy colleagues and partners
Benefits
- Medical, dental, and vision insurance with HSA employer contributions
- Health FSA, Dependent Care FSA, and commuter pre-tax accounts
- 401(k) with employer match
- Paid parental leave up to 24 weeks for birth parents and 20 weeks for non-birthing parents
- Paid medical and caregiver leave up to 8 weeks
- Flexible PTO for exempt employees
- 13+ paid company holidays and company office closures
- Paid sick or safe time
- Mental health and wellness support
- Employer-paid basic life and disability coverage
- Annual learning and development stipend
- Daily meals in offices and meal delivery credits
- Relocation support
- Charitable donation matching and wellness stipends
- Equity
- Performance-related bonus
