Technical Deployment Lead, Forward Deployed Engineering - Madrid

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

Zusammenfassung

OpenAI is seeking a Technical Deployment Lead to define how complex systems are delivered to customers. You will own the build, shipping, and adoption of deployments, translating business outcomes into a technical plan and guiding day-to-day execution across engineers and researchers.

This role emphasizes hands-on delivery rather than management, embedding with customer teams to map workflows, manage readiness, and ensure timely releases from MVP to scale.

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...