AI Deployment Lead for Financial Services

OpenAI; New York (NY); Hybrid; USD 180,000 - 250,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Relocation assistance

Job summary

OpenAI’s Forward Deployed Engineering team is hiring in New York City. You will own delivery end-to-end for complex AI deployments, embedding with customer teams to map workflows, ship components, and drive adoption across Financial Services clients.

This high-trust, high-autonomy role requires deep technical project management, executive-level communication, and the ability to translate business outcomes into technical plans with strong ownership and pace.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of customer-facing technical delivery leadership.
• Expertise in the Financial Services industry.
• Able to operate in high ambiguity environments.

Responsibilities

• Own the technical delivery plan for multiple interdependent work streams and map milestones and acceptance criteria.
• Run day-to-day engineering execution across OpenAI FDE and customer teams, keeping progress unblocked.
• Embed with customer teams to land production deployments and drive adoption, including onboarding and change management.
• Partner with Product and Research so platform components and research work streams land on time to support deployment goals.
• Codify solution patterns and evals, extracting reusable patterns and field signals to improve product and models.
• Own value cases and ROI, set impact hypotheses and KPIs, and report progress to exec sponsors.
• Shape how we engage Financial Services customers.

Skills

Delivery leadership

Financial Services domain

Job description

OpenAI’s Forward Deployed Engineering team is hiring in New York City. You will own delivery end-to-end for complex AI deployments, embedding with customer teams to map workflows, ship components, and drive adoption across Financial Services clients.

This high-trust, high-autonomy role requires deep technical project management, executive-level communication, and the ability to translate business outcomes into technical plans with strong ownership and pace.