Technical Deployment Lead, Forward Deployed Engineering FDE - NYC

Openai; Deutschland; Vor Ort; EUR 70.000 - 90.000; Vollzeit

Benefits dieser Stelle

Relocation assistance

Hybrid work model

Zusammenfassung

OpenAI is seeking a Technical Deployment Lead in Germany to define how complex systems are delivered to customers. You will own the end-to-end process, working closely with teams to ensure that products are built, shipped, and successfully adopted. The role involves significant technical project management and collaboration with customer teams.

This hybrid position requires 3 days in the office and includes relocation assistance. You will also manage dependencies and track progress to drive deployment goals.

Qualifikationen

• Experience in leading technical delivery plans for complex systems.
• Proven record of translating business outcomes into actionable technical plans.
• Strong communication skills to partner with customer teams.

Aufgaben

• Own the technical delivery plan for multiple interdependent work streams.
• Run day-to-day engineering execution across teams.
• Embed with customers to drive production deployments and adoption.

Kenntnisse

Technical project management expertise

Deep immersion in customer workflows

Ability to manage interdependent work streams

Jobbeschreibung

Overview

About the team

OpenAI’s Forward Deployed Engineering (FDE) team turns research breakthroughs into production-grade systems. We embed deeply with customers to solve high-leverage problems and act as the delivery engine for our most complex large-scale engagements. We move quickly from prototype to production and surface reusable patterns that shape our platform. We operate at the intersection of deployment and development – working closely with OpenAI Research, Product and Partnerships.

About the Role

As a Technical Deployment Lead (TDL), you will define how OpenAI delivers complex systems to customers. You will own how they are built, shipped, and adopted. You’ll translate business outcomes into a technical plan, run day-to-day execution across FDEs, Researchers, and Customer Engineers, and partner with customer teams to ensure delivery supports their goals.

You will own delivery end-to-end: embedding with customers to map workflows and success criteria, ensuring components ship on time, and leading readiness and change management for adoption. You’ll track progress, manage dependencies, make sequencing decisions, and drive 0→1 prototypes through MVP and scale. You will also share field insights with Product and Research to guide roadmap and priorities.

This is a high-trust, high-autonomy role. Success requires deep technical project management expertise, extreme ownership of outcomes, and an ability to immerse in customer workflows and partner with customer teams to solve complex engineering problems at pace.

This role is based in NYC. We use a hybrid work model of 3 days in the office per week. We offer relocation assistance. Travel between 25%–50% is required.

Responsibilities

• Own the technical delivery plan for multiple interdependent work streams. Translate business objectives into a roadmap with milestones, dependencies, and acceptance criteria.
• Run day-to-day engineering execution. Track and drive delivery across OpenAI FDE and customer teams. Keep progress unblocked and sequenced. Make real-time trade-offs on scope and priority to protect the critical path.
• Embed with customer teams to land production deployments and drive adoption. Map workflows, shape tools/integrations, and translate requirements into a delivery plan. Lead onboarding, adoption, and change management.
• Partner with Product and Research so platform components and research work streams land in time to support deployment goals.
• Codify solution patterns and evals. Extract reusable patterns and package field signals to inform deployment decisions.