Founding Technical Deployment Lead, FDE Platform (Hybrid)

Rozgoo; San Francisco (CA); Hybrid; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Relocation assistance

Travel up to 50%

Job summary

OpenAI is seeking a founding Technical Deployment Lead for the Forward Deployed Engineering Platform team. You will own early deployments, scope success criteria, and drive production adoption across interdependent workstreams with partner teams.

This ops-heavy, technically deep role requires aligning with OpenAI and customer stakeholders, ensuring enterprise readiness, and delivering measurable platform outcomes.

Qualifications

• Have 5+ years leading complex, customer-facing technical delivery where you owned outcomes end-to-end in high-ambiguity environments.
• Are deeply credible with senior technical stakeholders and can whiteboard architectures, reason about enterprise deployment constraints, and go in the weeds when required.
• Have strong instincts for enterprise security and governance, including permissions/RBAC, audit trails, data access boundaries, and rollout safety.
• Bring an ops-first background (platform delivery leadership, technical program/delivery leadership, product/engineering operations) and a track record of driving execution through matrixed teams.
• Communicate with executive presence: you can align sponsors, make tradeoffs legible, and keep teams focused on the critical path under pressure.

Responsibilities

• Define pilot scope and success criteria: Partner with customer sponsors and technical leads to translate goals into a concrete plan, measurable outcomes, and clear acceptance criteria.
• Own the delivery plan across work streams: Build and run integrated milestones, dependencies, and execution rhythms across Applied, platform engineers, and customer teams.
• Drive stakeholder alignment and decision‑making: Lead internal and external working sessions, keep tradeoffs explicit, unblock decisions, and escape crisply when needed.
• Ensure enterprise readiness from day one: Pressure‑test security posture, permissions and access boundaries, audit‑ability, and deployment/infra requirements as part of the delivery plan.
• Manage production adoption and value realization: Drive onboarding, enablement, and change management so deployments land in real workflows and deliver measurable impact.
• Run multiple deployments with rigor: Maintain clear status, risks, and mitigations across concurrent pilots, and continuously adjust plans to protect outcomes.
• Convert learnings into actionable next steps: Synthesize what worked and what broke into clear requirements, sequencing proposals, and improvements to the platform delivery approach.

Skills

Technical delivery

Stakeholder management

Enterprise security

Delivery leadership

Cross-functional collaboration

Job description

OpenAI is seeking a founding Technical Deployment Lead for the Forward Deployed Engineering Platform team. You will own early deployments, scope success criteria, and drive production adoption across interdependent workstreams with partner teams.

This ops-heavy, technically deep role requires aligning with OpenAI and customer stakeholders, ensuring enterprise readiness, and delivering measurable platform outcomes.