Technical Program Manager, Cloud AI Partnerships

The role

This person will drive technical strategy and execution to bring OpenAI models and platform capabilities into partner environments. They will lead end-to-end execution for cloud partner programs and manage integrated technical roadmaps.

What you will do

• Lead end-to-end execution for major cloud partner programs.
• Own integrated technical roadmaps across OpenAI and partner teams.
• Own launch readiness across cloud partner platforms.
• Act as a primary technical interface to partner engineering organizations.
• Drive alignment across engineering, infrastructure, product, safety, security, legal, finance, and go-to-market teams.
• Provide clear, transparent reporting on program status, issues, risks, and decisions.
• Convert open issues into prioritized plans with clear owners and closure paths.
• Help build repeatable and efficient development and launch pipelines for OpenAI models on partner platforms.

Required qualifications

• Substantial technical program management leadership across infrastructure, platform, or large-scale engineering work.
• Track record of owning complex programs end to end.
• Experience leading complex partner-facing programs requiring coordination across company boundaries.
• Understand cloud architectures, AI/ML deployment, model serving, and practical integration challenges.
• Communicate crisply with engineers, executives, and external partners.
• Ability to create alignment without direct authority.
• Ability to thrive in ambiguous, scaling environments.
• Strong judgment on risk and sequencing.

Nice to have

• Direct experience with major cloud or AI platforms.
• Familiarity with how foundation models are integrated, packaged, launched, and operated through partner platforms or marketplaces.
• Experience with inference systems, model serving, accelerator-backed infrastructure, or distributed systems.

Benefits

• Relocation assistance

Before you apply

• Background checks will be administered in accordance with applicable law.

About the company

OpenAI is an AI research and deployment company dedicated to ensuring that general-purpose artificial intelligence benefits all of humanity. They seek to safely deploy AI through products like ChatGPT and their API platform.