APAC Deployment Lead Manager – Forward Deployed Engineering

ResumeXrays LLC; Singapore; Hybrid; SGD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Relocation assistance

Hybrid work model

Up to 25% travel

Job summary

OpenAI is seeking a Manager of Deployment Leads (APAC) based in Singapore. You will lead a team delivering production systems with frontier models, owning end-to-end outcomes from scoping to handoff, while coordinating with Product, Research, GTM, and customers at senior levels.

This role emphasizes coaching, scalable processes, and building durable customer trust. You will shape the function as it grows, manage staffing, and ensure delivery readiness, with up to 25% travel and relocation

Qualifications

• 8+ years of customer-facing technical delivery or product leadership experience.
• 2+ years managing high-performing teams.
• Experience leading deployments from prototype to production, adoption and handoff.
• Strong product mindset balancing customer needs with reusable solutions.
• Ability to thrive in ambiguity and build new functions with clarity.
• Proven track record hiring, coaching, and developing technical staff.

Responsibilities

• Lead and grow a team of Deployment Leads delivering production systems with frontier models.
• Own end-to-end delivery outcomes, from scoping through production, adoption, and handoff.
• Set direction and build trust across technical teams, GTM, and customer executives.
• Codify best practices into playbooks, delivery methods, and roadmap inputs.
• Raise DL performance through coaching, feedback, and career development.
• Staffing decisions and development of future DL leaders to scale the team.

Skills

Customer-facing delivery

Technical leadership

Team management

Product mindset

Hiring & coaching

Cross-functional collaboration

Job description

OpenAI is seeking a Manager of Deployment Leads (APAC) based in Singapore. You will lead a team delivering production systems with frontier models, owning end-to-end outcomes from scoping to handoff, while coordinating with Product, Research, GTM, and customers at senior levels.

This role emphasizes coaching, scalable processes, and building durable customer trust. You will shape the function as it grows, manage staffing, and ensure delivery readiness, with up to 25% travel and relocation