Developer Experience TPM - Accelerate Dev Velocity

AI Chopping Block; San Francisco, Northern (CA, KY); Hybrid; USD 150,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Relocation assistance

Hybrid work model (3 days in office)

Job summary

OpenAI is seeking a Technical Program Manager to improve developer velocity and deployment excellence across ChatGPT and related backend services. You will lead durable improvements to local development, CI, testing, build systems, release trains, and post‑deployment validation, partnering with platform, reliability, and observability teams to reduce incidents and accelerate delivery.

Based in San Francisco with a hybrid schedule and relocation assistance for new hires, you will drive cross‑team

Qualifications

• Led complex technical programs spanning developer infrastructure, CI/CD, build and test systems, release engineering, or distributed systems.
• Engaged deeply with engineers on workflow architecture, deployment systems, rollout risk, observability, and operational tradeoffs.
• Delivered measurable improvements in developer velocity, deployment throughput, release reliability, or engineering efficiency.
• Turn fragmented ownership and recurring manual work into durable mechanisms, standards, and tooling with strong adoption.

Responsibilities

• Own cross-functional roadmap for local development, CI, testing, build workflows, and release infrastructure.
• Define metrics for developer productivity, build/test health, deployment throughput, and velocity.
• Drive automation, observability, release orchestration, and scalable developer tooling with clear ownership.

Job description

OpenAI is seeking a Technical Program Manager to improve developer velocity and deployment excellence across ChatGPT and related backend services. You will lead durable improvements to local development, CI, testing, build systems, release trains, and post‑deployment validation, partnering with platform, reliability, and observability teams to reduce incidents and accelerate delivery.

Based in San Francisco with a hybrid schedule and relocation assistance for new hires, you will drive cross‑team