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We operate at the intersection of customer delivery and core platform development, embedding deeply with customers to translate frontier model capabilities into reliable, auditable systems that create measurable business impact. Our work turns early deployments into repeatable solution patterns, operating standards, and evaluation practices that scale across regulated financial institutions.\nAbout the Role\nAs a foundational FDE manager, you’ll lead FDE through high-stakes, ambiguous financial services deployments and own technical and business value outcomes end to end. You’ll grow a team that can operate under pressure and help OpenAI learn from the field. 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This role also will require travel up to 25%.\nIn this role, you will:\nLead and grow a team of FDE delivering production systems with frontier models\n\nOwn end-to-end delivery outcomes through clarity, speed, tight coordination, and technical quality\n\nCodify what works into tools, playbooks, and roadmap inputs that create leverage for both OpenAI and our wider developer community\n\nNotice early indicators and raise them with urgency, whether in product behavior, customer environments, or delivery practices\n\nUse judgement to distinguish what requires action and what does not\n\nSet a high bar for FDE performance and support each person’s growth through direct, actionable feedback\n\nDefine how we staff and support field teams that can scale without added complexity\n\nYou might thrive in this role if you:\nBring 10+ years of engineering or technical delivery experience, including 2+ years managing high-performing FDE or customer-facing engineers.\n\nHave led high-pressure technical projects from prototype to production.\n\nWrite and review production-grade code across frontend and backend using Javascript or Python.\n\nSimplify complex work and make fast, sound decisions under pressure.\n\nElevate team performance through clarity, not process.\n\nOperate with urgency in ambiguous or evolving environments.\n\nTranslate field experience into sharp, actionable feedback for Product and Research.\n\nBuild deep trust with your team by modeling calm, focus, and judgment when it matters most.\n\nAbout OpenAI\nOpenAI 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.\nWe 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.\nFor additional information, please see OpenAI’s Affirmative Action and Equal Employment Opportunity Policy Statement.\nBackground 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.\nTo notify OpenAI that you believe this job posting is non-compliant, please submit a report through this form. 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