Technical Program Manager, Cloud AI Partnerships

AI research and deployment company building and deploying frontier AI products, including ChatGPT, Codex, and its API platform.

41 current maintainers27 active leads7 new active leads120 lead step-downs17 early lead departures
San Francisco, United States
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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About the Role

You will own integrated technical roadmaps across OpenAI and partner teams, lead launch readiness, act as a primary technical interface to partner engineering organizations, and build repeatable launch pipelines for OpenAI models on partner platforms.

Requirements

  • Substantial technical program management leadership across infrastructure, platform or large-scale engineering
  • Led complex partner-facing programs
  • Understanding of cloud architectures, AI/ML deployment and model serving
  • Direct experience with major cloud or AI platforms
  • Familiarity with foundation model integration through partner platforms or marketplaces
  • Experience with inference systems, model serving, accelerator-backed infrastructure or distributed systems
  • Ability to create alignment without direct authority
  • Strong judgment on risk and sequencing

Responsibilities

  • Lead end-to-end execution for major cloud partner programs
  • Own integrated technical roadmaps, milestones, dependencies and risks
  • Own launch readiness including checklists, blocker tracking and go/no-go reviews
  • Act as primary technical interface to partner engineering organizations
  • Drive alignment across engineering, infrastructure, product, safety, security, legal, finance and go-to-market
  • Report on program status, issues, risks and decisions
  • Convert open issues into prioritized plans with clear owners and closure paths
  • Build repeatable development and launch pipelines for models on partner platforms

Benefits

  • Medical, dental, and vision insurance with employer HSA contributions
  • Pre-tax Health FSA, Dependent Care FSA, and commuter accounts
  • 401(k) with employer match
  • Paid parental leave, medical and caregiver leave
  • Flexible PTO
  • 13+ paid company holidays and company office closures
  • 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