Technical Program Manager, Developer Experience

About the Team

The Product & Platform teams at OpenAI are responsible for delivering the company’s most impactful offerings—such as ChatGPT, our API platform, and new enterprise capabilities—to a global and diverse customer base. These systems must perform at scale and deliver exceptional experiences to developers, consumers, and businesses alike.

The ChatGPT engineering org builds and operates the systems that bring product improvements to users across backend services, web, mobile, and desktop platforms.

The Developer Velocity team partners with product engineering, platform, infrastructure, reliability, engineering acceleration, and observability teams to make everyday development faster and releases safer, more predictable, and easier to operate.

You might thrive in this role if you:

• Have led complex technical programs spanning developer infrastructure, CI/CD, build and test systems, release engineering, or distributed systems.
• Can engage deeply with engineers on workflow architecture, deployment systems, rollout risk, observability, and operational tradeoffs.
• Have delivered measurable improvements in developer velocity, deployment throughput, release reliability, or engineering efficiency.
• Know how to turn fragmented ownership and recurring manual work into durable mechanisms, standards, and tooling with strong adoption.
• Use data and qualitative evidence to prioritize work, define useful metrics, and distinguish real productivity gains from local optimization.
• Lead effectively across platform and product teams, resolve ambiguity, and keep multi-team execution moving without direct authority.
• Use metrics to guide decisions, identify bottlenecks, and demonstrate measurable improvements in throughput, predictability, or reliability.
• Communicate with precision and can move comfortably between technical detail, operational execution, and executive-level decisions.
• Thrive in ambiguous, scaling environments and can bring order to complex cross-functional work without losing pace.
• Care about OpenAI's mission and about expanding responsible access to advanced AI systems.

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.

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