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We deliver practical learning through workshops, online resources, and partners who train others. Our audiences include small businesses, nonprofits, educators, workforce organizations, and people learning to use AI for the first time.\nThe Academy team works closely with Customer Education and Technical Success to bring accurate product knowledge and strong instructional practices into community learning. This role will connect Academy’s audience needs with the training content, product expertise, and enablement practices across those teams.\nAbout the Role\nWe’re looking for a Learning & Instruction Lead to own the design, delivery, and ongoing improvement of Academy’s learning programs. You will lead priority workshops, build live and self-paced curriculum, and develop the training, assessments, and credentials that prepare community trainers and advisors to support others.\nThis role combines exceptional live instruction with hands-on learning design and program ownership. 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Evaluate new capabilities quickly and turn useful advances into better learning experiences, with careful review for accuracy, accessibility, and reliability.\n\nPartner with Customer Education and Technical Success to adapt shared resources for Academy audiences and keep programs current as products and learner needs change.\n\nTest demos and activities in the accounts and environments learners will use, including access, feature availability, timing, privacy, and appropriate verification of AI outputs.\n\nOwn training and credential requirements for community trainers and advisors, aligned with shared OpenAI frameworks and Academy audience needs. 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Own priorities, quality, and the overall learner experience.\n\nUse learner work, feedback, and recurring product friction to improve programs and inform relevant internal teams.\n\nYou might thrive in this role if you:\nHave a track record of designing and delivering practical adult learning, customer education, technical enablement, or workforce training.\n\nHave taken a learning program from design through launch and ongoing operation, coordinating content, assessments, learner access, and external contributors.\n\nAre an exceptional live instructor with a track record of leading engaging, hands-on sessions, explaining complex ideas clearly, reading the room, and adapting in real time for beginners and experienced participants.\n\nUse ChatGPT and Codex confidently to build, test, and refine practical demonstrations and learning resources, with sound judgment about accuracy and limitations.\n\nAre an excellent learning designer who can translate an audience need into clear objectives, well-sequenced instruction, meaningful practice, and useful evidence of learning.\n\nHave a portfolio of fully polished training resources that you personally created and brought to delivery quality, combining strong writing, visual judgment, instructional design, and attention to detail.\n\nHave coached instructors or partners and can define observable standards for teaching readiness and quality.\n\nBring the judgment to distinguish a beginner workshop from a session requiring deeper engineering expertise and involve the right specialists.\n\nWork well across content owners, product experts, program managers, and external partners, with clear ownership and follow-through.\n\nCare about expanding access to useful AI skills and have experience adapting learning for varied professional and community contexts.\n\nHelpful experience\nTrain-the-trainer programs, facilitator networks, or partner-led education.\n\nLearning assessment, accessibility, localization, or delivery to nonprofit, small-business, education, and workforce audiences.\n\nFamiliarity with APIs, agents, and evaluations to support collaboration with technical instructors and appropriate builder content.\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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