Lead PoP & WAN Infra TPM

Rozgoo; United States; Hybrid; USD 150,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Relocation assistance

Hybrid work model

Health insurance

Job summary

OpenAI is hiring a Technical Program Manager to own the WAN infrastructure rollout across PoPs, long-haul fiber, cloud interconnects, and provider handoffs. This role emphasizes hands-on execution, clear ownership, and coordination with network engineers, datacenter operators, cloud providers, and vendors.

You will manage end-to-end PoP buildouts, supply chain, and implementation readiness, with a hybrid in-office schedule in San Francisco and relocation assistance for new hires.

Qualifications

• Deep experience driving infrastructure, networking, datacenter, cloud connectivity, telecom, fiber, or technical operations programs.
• Strong technical intuition across physical networking, WAN/backbone infrastructure, colocation environments, cloud interconnects, cross-connects, optics, cabling, routing, and operational readiness.
• A track record of independently owning ambiguous, cross-functional infrastructure programs from planning through production handoff.
• Experience working directly with network engineers, datacenter operations, colocation providers, carriers, cloud providers, vendors, finance, procurement, and business stakeholders.
• Excellent written communication and operating discipline: clear trackers, clean handoffs, useful status updates, and escalation notes that drive decisions.

Responsibilities

• Own end-to-end execution for PoP buildouts, expansions, and network capacity delivery across internal teams, vendors, colocation providers, fiber providers, and cloud providers.
• Drive physical and logical readiness across routers, line cards, optics, cabling, patch panels, cross-connects, provider handoffs, cloud interconnects, BGP sessions, routing policy, and production turn-up.
• Maintain clear ownership of timelines, dependencies, risks, blockers, escalation paths, and readiness milestones for active network deployments.
• Translate network capacity needs and deployment plans into concrete execution workstreams with owners, dates, test expectations, and acceptance criteria.
• Partner closely with network engineers to validate link state, optics health, FEC/BER signals, light levels, interface configuration, routing readiness, and handoff completeness.

Skills

Infrastructure program management

Network engineering collaboration

Operational readiness

Stakeholder communication

Problem solving

Tools

Arista

Juniper

Cisco

Deployment tooling

BGP

Job description

OpenAI is hiring a Technical Program Manager to own the WAN infrastructure rollout across PoPs, long-haul fiber, cloud interconnects, and provider handoffs. This role emphasizes hands-on execution, clear ownership, and coordination with network engineers, datacenter operators, cloud providers, and vendors.

You will manage end-to-end PoP buildouts, supply chain, and implementation readiness, with a hybrid in-office schedule in San Francisco and relocation assistance for new hires.