Workplace Operations Manager, Singapore

OpenAI, Inc.; Singapore; On-site; SGD 70,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

OpenAI Deployment Company (DeployCo) in Singapore seeks a Workplace Operations Manager to own daily office operations and the workplace experience for our Singapore team. The role is hands-on, overseeing facilities, vendor relations, events and administrative support to keep pace with a fast-growing team.

You will drive improvements by using AI and technology to simplify workflows, build scalable processes, and collaborate with APAC and global Operations teams as required.

Qualifications

• Experience in office management or workplace operations.
• Strong communicator with senior leaders and cross-functional teams.
• Proactive and highly organized with ability to manage multiple priorities.
• Comfortable with ambiguity in a fast-moving environment.

Responsibilities

• Own Singapore workplace operations, ensuring the office and services run smoothly as the team grows.
• Create a great employee and visitor experience, supporting onboarding, meetings, events and daily office life.
• Manage our workplace ecosystem including vendors, building management and partners.
• Support Singapore leadership with administrative and operational coordination to move priorities forward.
• Drive team culture and engagement, building experiences that bring people together.
• Build and improve operational processes, identifying opportunities to automate and simplify.
• Use AI and technology to work smarter, reducing manual work and solving daily challenges.
• Partner with APAC and global Operations teams on regional initiatives and priorities.
• Take ownership and adapt to unexpected needs in a fast-growing company.

Skills

Office management

Operations

Administration

AI native

Job description

About the Company

The OpenAI Deployment Company (DeployCo) is the deployment arm of OpenAI, purpose built to deliver enterprise AI transformation at scale. As model capabilities accelerate, deployment has become the primary constraint to realizing AI value creation within large enterprises. DeployCo bridges that gap.
Our ambition is to build the company that defines AI deployment. We operate at the intersection of cutting edge AI, enterprise transformation, and scaled services delivery. We partner with enterprise customers to identify where AI can transform their businesses and build solutions leveraging OpenAI’s models and products.
People who thrive at DeployCo get excited about ambitious and complex work. We are deep believers in the future with AI. We execute quickly, value intellectual honesty and empathy, and obsess over the solutions we build for our customers.
DeployCo is being built from the ground up as a subsidiary of OpenAI and funded with a partnership of outside investors.

About the Role

We are looking for an Workplace Operations Manager to own the day to day operations and workplace experience of our Singapore office.
You will play a central role in making Singapore a great place to work, ensuring our people, workplace and operations are set up to support a fast growing team. Our Singapore office is directly managed rather than a serviced office, so this is a hands on role that includes responsibility for the practical day to day running of the workplace, alongside employee experience, team coordination, events and administrative support.
As DeployCo continues to grow in Singapore and in Asia, you will also have the opportunity to shape how we operate by identifying gaps, building better processes and using technology and AI to make the way we work simpler and more effective.
This role is based in Singapore and is primarily office based.

In this role, you will:

• Own Singapore workplace operations, ensuring the office and its supporting services run smoothly, reliably and efficiently as the team grows.
• Create a great employee and visitor experience, supporting onboarding, team activities, meetings, events and the overall day to day experience of working from our Singapore office.
• Manage our workplace ecosystem, including external vendors, suppliers, building management and other partners required to support the Singapore team.
• Support Singapore leadership and the broader teamwith administrative and operational coordination, helping priorities move forward effectively.
• Drive team culture and engagement, supporting initiatives and experiences that bring people together and strengthen the Singapore team.
• Build and improve operational processes, identifying opportunities to simplify, automate and improve how the office and team operate.
• Use AI and technology to work smarter, experimenting with tools and new ways of working to reduce manual work and solve everyday operational challenges.
• Partner with the wider APAC and global Operations teamson regional initiatives, events and operational priorities as required.
• Take ownership of the unexpected. in a fast growing company, not everything fits neatly into a job description. You will be someone the team can rely on to figure things out and make things happen.

You may thrive in this role if you:

• Have experience in office management, workplace operations, business operations, administration or a similar environment.
• Are AI native and curious. You actively use AI in your day to day work and are excited about finding new ways to use it to solve problems, automate repetitive work and improve how things get done.
• Have a genuine interest in AI and are excited to work in an environment where technology is changing quickly.
• Are proactive and resourceful. You see something that could be better and naturally take ownership of improving it.
• Are highly organised and comfortable managing multiple priorities at the same time.
• Enjoy being hands on and are equally comfortable thinking about how something should work and rolling up your sleeves to make it happen.
• Are a strong communicator who can work confidently with employees, senior leaders, customers, partners and external vendors.
• Have strong attention to detail and a high bar for the experience you create for others.
• Are comfortable with ambiguity and enjoy working in a fast moving environment where processes are still being built.
• Want to grow beyond traditional office management and take on broader operational responsibility as the team scales.