Engineering Manager, Education

The role

This person will lead and manage a team of senior full-stack engineers building AI-native learning experiences in ChatGPT. They will write and ship code, manage engineers, and help shape product direction for students and educators.

What you will do

• 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.

Required qualifications

• Several years of direct people-management experience with engineers.
• Highly technical and comfortable doing IC engineering work.
• Strong product sense and can operate like a GM for a focused product area.
• Can lead senior engineers with credibility and clear technical direction.
• Effective at cross-functional influence, communication, and project management.
• Genuinely interested in education, learning science, and how AI can improve learning outcomes.
• 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 the company

OpenAI is an AI research and deployment company dedicated to ensuring that general-purpose artificial intelligence benefits all of humanity. They push the boundaries of the capabilities of AI systems and seek to safely deploy them to the world through their products.