Technical Deployment Lead – Forward Deployed Engineering

OpenAI; Madrid; On-site; EUR 110,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

Jobtailor is seeking a seasoned customer‑facing technical delivery leader to drive OpenAI deployments. You will own the technical delivery plan across multiple interdependent workstreams and run day‑to‑day engineering execution, embedding with customer teams to land deployments and drive adoption.

You will partner with Product and Research to meet deployment goals, codify solution patterns, and own value cases and ROI, leveraging deep AI/LLM experience across high-stakes engagements.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of customer-facing technical delivery leadership required.
• Proven track record leading large, complex, high-stakes customer engagements.
• Experience in high ambiguity environments.
• Strong technical fluency.
• Must have shipped AI/LLM systems.
• Expertise in at least one major sector (healthcare, energy, financial services, semiconductors, IT).

Responsibilities

• Define how OpenAI delivers complex systems to customers.
• Own the technical delivery plan for multiple interdependent workstreams.
• Run day-to-day engineering execution.
• Embed with customer teams to land production deployments and drive adoption.
• Partner with Product and Research to ensure deployment goals are met.
• Codify solution patterns and evals.
• Own value cases and ROI.

Skills

Tech Delivery Planning

Engineering Execution

Pattern Codification

Value Case Dev

ROI Analysis

Customer-Facing Leadership

AI/LLM Deployment

Complex Engagements

High Ambiguity

Technical Fluency

Job description

Responsibilities

• Define how OpenAI delivers complex systems to customers
• Own the technical delivery plan for multiple interdependent workstreams
• Run day‑to‑day engineering execution
• Embed with customer teams to land production deployments and drive adoption
• Partner with Product and Research to ensure deployment goals are met
• Codify solution patterns and evals
• Own value cases and ROI

Requirements

• 7+ years of customer‑facing technical delivery leadership
• Track record of successfully leading large, complex, high‑stakes customer engagements
• Experience in high ambiguity environments
• Strong technical fluency
• Must have shipped AI/LLM systems
• Expertise in at least one major sector (e.g., healthcare, energy, financial services, semiconductors, IT)

Core Competencies

Demonstrates expertise in customer-facing technical delivery leadership, with a strong focus on deploying AI/LLM systems and managing complex, high-stakes engagements. Proven ability to navigate high ambiguity environments while ensuring successful execution and adoption of solutions.

Highest-signal resume keywords

• Customer-Facing Technical Delivery Leadership
• AI/LLM Systems Deployment
• Complex Engagement Management
• High Ambiguity Environment Experience
• Technical Fluency

ATS Optimization Keywords

Hard Skills

• Technical Delivery Planning
• Engineering Execution
• Solution Pattern Codification
• Value Case Development
• ROI Analysis

Industry Keywords

• Healthcare
• Energy
• Financial Services
• Semiconductors
• IT