Openai
Applied AI Engineering Manager, Startups | Greenfield
London, UK, Remote. Posted 5 days ago
The role
You will lead and scale the Applied AI Engineering team for the Startups segment. You will help early-stage startups reach production deployment and win high-potential startups through technical pursuits.
What you will do
- Craft and refine the strategic vision and operating model for the Startups Applied AI Engineering team.
- Lead, mentor, and grow a team of high-performing technical ICs.
- Help startups move from experimentation to production usage by advising on architecture and driving deployment.
- Lead technical strategy for priority competitive pursuits.
- Partner with Sales to accelerate adoption and long-term account growth.
- Represent the technical voice of startup customers by synthesizing feedback.
- Translate recurring startup needs into repeatable playbooks, starter packs, and reference architectures.
- Serve as a senior technical escalation point for founders and CTOs.
- Balance urgent customer needs with OpenAI product and platform priorities.
- Work with VC Partnerships, Marketing, and developer-facing teams to expand reach.
Required qualifications
- Proven experience founding, scaling, or operating within early-stage startups in technical leadership roles.
- Track record of building and leading technical, customer-facing teams in high-growth or startup-heavy environments.
- Technical depth across APIs, platform products, AI/ML systems, developer workflows, and production deployment.
- Experience creating scalable operating models.
- Comfort working directly with founders, CTOs, and technical executives.
- Ability to translate complex technical and product considerations into clear decisions.
- Commitment to fostering the safe and beneficial development of AI.
Nice to have
- Experience in technical leadership roles where you owned both product or customer outcomes and technical execution.
About the company
OpenAI is an AI research and deployment company dedicated to ensuring that general-purpose artificial intelligence benefits all of humanity.