Technical Program Manager, Partnerships

About the Team

OpenAI's Research Team is at the forefront of AI research, pushing the limits of what AI can achieve. Our team is dedicated to developing advanced AI systems that are powerful, safe, and beneficial for everyone.

About the Role

The Research IP Partnerships team is in need of Technical Program Managers (TPMs) to streamline the integration of our applied research with external strategic partners. This role is critical for synthesizing research from cross functional teams, enabling model deployment, and ensuring new technologies are effectively adopted.

You will act as the connection that enables our partners to deploy the most advanced AI models. Your primary focus will be to increase our research velocity and ensure that our deployments are successful and collaborative with our partners.

This 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.

In this role, you will:

• Build and share a deep understanding of frontier AI model development
• Partner with internal and external teams to drive deployment of the latest OpenAI technologies
• Manage critical inquiries from both technical and non-technical partners
• Design and implement simple, scalable processes that solve complex problems
• Deliver high-profile pipeline and tooling projects on tight deadlines
• Work across research and engineering to align goals, streamline communication, and support business priorities

You might thrive in this role if you:

• Have experience in a strategic partnerships and technical program management role
• Can right-size process to align stakeholders while ensuring speed of delivery (action-oriented)
• Are fantastic at building cross-functional relationships and having empathy for the many roles involved in deploying research
• Can design and build tools (via code / no-code / AI) to facilitate internal processes
• Are a great communicator across written, presentation, and visual forms.
• Are engaged and curious about the rapidly evolving AI landscape.

Specific technologies / skills that will be helpful in this role

• Experience with agentic models or OpenAI LLM APIs
• No-Code/Low-Code Platforms: e.g. Airtable, Zapier, Retool

About OpenAI

OpenAI 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, and to achieve our mission, we must encompass and value the many different perspectives, voices, and experiences that form the full spectrum of humanity.

We are an equal opportunity employer, and we do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, age, veteran status, disability, genetic information, or other applicable legally protected characteristic.

For additional information, please see OpenAI’s Affirmative Action and Equal Employment Opportunity Policy Statement https://cdn.openai.com/policies/eeo-policy-statement.pdf.

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