Technical Program Manager, Cloud AI Partnerships

📋 Job Overview

The Product & Platform teams at OpenAI are responsible for delivering the company’s most impactful offerings—such as ChatGPT, our API platform, and new enterprise capabilities—to a global and diverse customer base. These systems must perform at scale and deliver exceptional experiences to developers, consumers, and businesses alike. Technical Program Managers at OpenAI play a key leadership role in scaling these efforts, partnering deeply with product, engineering, design, and go-to-market teams to bring ambitious ideas to life and ensure clarity and discipline in execution.

🏢 About OpenAI

OpenAI is hiring a Technical Program Manager to support critical AI deployments across strategic cloud partners. This role is designed for a candidate who can operate as an end-to-end owner across internal engineering teams and external partner organizations.

🎯 The Role

This role will drive the technical strategy and execution required to bring OpenAI models and platform capabilities into partner environments responsibly and at scale. The work spans engineering deliverables, shared roadmaps, model launch pipelines, technical integration, launch readiness, and post-launch follow-through.

✅ Key Responsibilities

• Lead end-to-end execution for major cloud partner programs spanning model deployment, product integration, operational readiness, launch follow-through, and partner-platform adoption.
• Own integrated technical roadmaps across OpenAI and partner teams, including milestones, dependencies, risks, resourcing needs, and the sequencing required to land joint commitments.
• Own launch readiness across cloud partner platforms, including readiness checklists, blocker tracking, joint go/no-go reviews, and post-launch stability follow-through.
• Act as a primary technical interface to partner engineering organizations, helping own the shared roadmap and day-to-day coordination on deployment, capacity, incidents, and open engineering issues.
• Drive alignment across engineering, infrastructure, product, safety, security, legal, finance, and go-to-market teams so joint deliverables are well-scoped, sequenced, and executable.
• Provide clear, transparent reporting on program status, issues, risks, and decisions required for senior leaders and stakeholders.
• Convert open issues into prioritized plans that both OpenAI and partner teams can commit to, with clear owners, workbacks, and closure paths.
• Help build repeatable and efficient development and launch pipelines for OpenAI models on partner platforms.

📌 Required Qualifications

• Bring substantial technical program management leadership across infrastructure, platform, or large-scale engineering work, with a track record of owning complex programs end to end.
• Have led complex partner-facing programs where success required tight coordination across company boundaries, clear operating rhythms, and sustained follow-through.
• Understand cloud architectures, AI/ML deployment, model serving, and the practical integration challenges of bringing advanced AI systems to production.
• Direct experience with major cloud or AI platforms, including how models are integrated, launched, and onboarded for customers.
• Familiarity with how foundation models are integrated, packaged, launched, and operated through partner platforms or marketplaces.
• Experience with inference systems, model serving, accelerator-backed

🎁 Benefits

Medical, dental, and vision insurance for you and your family, with employer contributions to Health Savings Accounts
Pre-tax accounts for Health FSA, Dependent Care FSA, and commuter expenses (parking and transit)
401(k) retirement plan with employer match
Paid parental leave (up to 24 weeks for birth parents and 20 weeks for non-birthing parents), plus paid medical and caregiver leave (up to 8 weeks)
Paid time off: flexible PTO for exempt employees and up to 15 days annually for non-exempt employees
13+ paid company holidays, and multiple paid coordinated company office closures throughout the year for focus and recharge, plus paid sick or safe time (1 hour per 30 hours worked, or more, as required by applicable state or local law)
Mental health and wellness support
Employer-paid basic life and disability coverage
Annual learning and development stipend to fuel your professional growth
Daily meals in our offices, and meal delivery credits as eligible
Relocation support for eligible employees
Additional taxable fringe benefits, such as charitable donation matching and wellness stipends, may also be provided.

🛂 Visa & Eligibility

This role is at-will and OpenAI reserves the right to modify base pay and other compensation components at any time based on individual performance, team or company results, or market conditions.