Technical Program Manager, Developer Velocity
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 durable improvements to local development, CI, testing, build systems, release trains, progressive rollout, and post-deployment validation across ChatGPT. You will find the biggest sources of engineering friction, align teams on standards and metrics, and drive adoption of tooling that improves speed and reliability. This role is hybrid in San Francisco, 3 days per week in the office.
Requirements
- Led complex technical programs in developer infrastructure, CI/CD, build and test systems, release engineering, or distributed systems
- Ability to engage deeply with engineers on deployment systems and rollout risk
- Delivered measurable improvements in developer velocity or release reliability
- Data-driven prioritization and metrics definition
- Ability to lead across teams without direct authority
- Precise communication
Responsibilities
- Own the cross-functional roadmap for local development, CI, testing, build workflows, and release infrastructure
- Create an intake and prioritization mechanism for developer friction
- Lead programs improving deployment speed and safety
- Improve reliability and predictability of release trains
- Partner with platform, infrastructure, reliability, and observability teams to reduce incidents and regressions
- Increase visibility into what is shipping and launch risks
- Define and operationalize developer productivity and release metrics
- Drive adoption of automation, observability, release orchestration, and developer tooling
Benefits
- Equity
- 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, medical and caregiver leave
- Flexible PTO for exempt employees
- 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 for eligible employees
- Charitable donation matching and wellness stipends
