Tech Lead Manager, Education

OpenAI; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 325,000 - 405,000; Full time

Job summary

OpenAI is seeking a hands-on Tech Lead Manager to guide a small team of senior full-stack engineers building AI-native learning experiences in ChatGPT Education. You’ll write and ship code, manage engineers, and shape the product direction for how students and educators use AI.

You’ll drive cross-functional collaboration with research, go-to-market, and model teams, defining priorities, delivering roadmap milestones, and mentoring engineers in a fast-paced environment.

Qualifications

• Proven experience leading engineers and shipping product features.
• Strong technical skills with ability to contribute code when needed.
• Ability to set direction and priorities for a product pod.

Responsibilities

• Lead and manage a team of three senior full-stack engineers.
• Build product experiences for ChatGPT Education and related workflows.
• Partner with research on field studies, data pipelines, and outcomes.
• Collaborate with model and go-to-market teams to broaden ChatGPT behavior.
• Define product strategy, priorities, and delivery plans for a new product pod.

Skills

People management

Full-stack engineering

Product judgment

Cross-functional collaboration

Education technology interest

Job description

About The Team

OpenAI’s Education team is building products that advance how people learn with AI. The team works across higher education institutions, K-12 districts, and country-level partnerships, including applied research on how AI affects learning and cognitive outcomes.

About The Team

OpenAI’s Education team is building products that advance how people learn with AI. The team works across higher education institutions, K-12 districts, and country-level partnerships, including applied research on how AI affects learning and cognitive outcomes. The team owns owns ChatGPT Edu, ChatGPT for Teachers, and related product/research work. The team partners closely with go-to-market, research, Consumer Learning, and model teams to turn education-specific insights into product experiences that can improve ChatGPT more broadly.

Some Of Our Recent Work

• New Education Plugins for ChatGPT Work and Codex
• New tools for understanding AI and learning outcomes
• Education for countries
• Advancements in higher education
• Early product work - Introducing Study Mode

About The Role

We’re looking for a hands-on Tech Lead Manager to lead and manage a team of senior full-stack engineers building AI-native learning experiences in ChatGPT. This person will combine technical execution, product judgment, and people leadership: they will write and ship code, manage engineers, and help shape the product direction for how students and Educators use AI.

In This Role, You Will

• Lead and manage a team of three senior full-stack engineers.
• Build product experiences for ChatGPT Education, ChatGPT for Teachers, and AI-native learning workflows.
• Partner with research teams on field studies, randomized control trials, classifiers, data pipelines, and cognitive-outcome measurement.
• Collaborate with Consumer Learning and model teams to translate education insights into broader ChatGPT behavior and product improvements.
• Drive execution across product, engineering, research, go-to-market, and partner teams.
• Help define product strategy, priorities, and delivery plans for a new product pod.

You Might Thrive In This Role If You

• Have several years of direct people-management experience with engineers.
• Are still highly technical and comfortable doing IC engineering work.
• Have strong product sense and can operate like a GM for a focused product area.
• Can lead senior engineers with credibility and clear technical direction.
• Are effective at cross-functional influence, communication, and project management.
• Are genuinely interested in education, learning science, and how AI can improve learning outcomes.
• Have experience operating in a large, complex technology organization.

Nice To Have

• Experience in education, learning products, learning science, or edtech.
• Experience across both larger technology companies and startup-like environments.
• Experience building products that connect research, data pipelines, and user-facing product experiences.
• Experience with B2B products that can later scale into broader consumer workflows.

About OpenAI

OpenAI is an AI research and deployment company dedicated to ensuring that general-purpose artificial intelligence benefits all of humanity. We push the boundaries of the capabilities of AI systems and seek to safely deploy them to the world through our products. AI is an extremely powerful tool that must be created with safety and human needs at its core, and to achieve our mission, we must encompass and value the many different perspectives, voices, and experiences that form the full spectrum of humanity. We are an equal opportunity employer, and we do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, age, veteran status, disability, genetic information, or other applicable legally protected characteristic. For additional information, please see OpenAI’s Affimative Action and Equal Employment Opportunity Policy Statement. Background checks for applicants will be administered in accordance with applicable law, and qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment consistent with those laws, including the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers, and the California Fair Chance Act, for US-based candidates. For unincorporated Los Angeles County workers: we reasonably believe that criminal history may have a direct, adverse and negative relationship with the following job duties, potentially resulting in the withdrawal of a conditional offer of employment: protect computer hardware entrusted to you from theft, loss or damage; return all computer hardware in your possession (including the data contained therein) upon termination of employment or end of assignment; and maintain the confidentiality of proprietary, confidential, and non-public information. In addition, job duties require access to secure and protected information technology systems and related data security obligations. To notify OpenAI that you believe this job posting is non-compliant, please submit a report through this form. No response will be provided to inquiries unrelated to job posting compliance. We are committed to providing reasonable accommodations to applicants with disabilities, and requests can be made via this link.

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Compensation Range: $325K - $405K