Technical Deployment Lead, Forward Deployed Engineering - London

Openai; Deutschland; Vor Ort; EUR 90.000 - 140.000; Vollzeit

Zusammenfassung

OpenAI's Forward Deployed Engineering team partners with customers to turn research breakthroughs into production systems. As a Technical Deployment Lead, you will define how OpenAI delivers complex systems to customers, own the delivery from inception to adoption, and embed with customer teams to map workflows and success criteria.

You will drive end-to-end execution across engineers and researchers, manage dependencies, and lead readiness and change management for adoption, tracking progress,

Qualifikationen

• Define and own delivery of complex deployments for OpenAI.
• Embed with customers to map workflows and success criteria.
• Lead readiness and change management for adoption.
• Coordinate cross-functional teams and track progress.
• Deliver prototypes from MVP to scale.

Aufgaben

• Define how OpenAI delivers complex systems to customers.
• Own delivery end-to-end: from build to adoption.
• Embed with customers to ensure alignment with goals and workflows.
• Track progress, manage dependencies, and drive sequencing decisions.
• Lead 0 to 1 prototypes through MVP and scale; inform roadmap.

Kenntnisse

Deployment planning

Customer delivery

Cross-functional coordination

Jobbeschreibung

About the team

OpenAI’s Forward Deployed Engineering team partners with customers to turn research breakthroughs into production systems. We operate at the intersection of customer delivery and core platform development.

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. This is not a management role, however you'll 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 to 1 prototypes through MVP and scale. You will also share field insights with Product and Research to guide roadmap and priorities. Success will be measured first and foremost by impact - deployments that deliver measurable value against customer goals, drive adoption, and become critical t...