OpenAI
Deployment Lead, FDE - SF
$230K–$294K
San Francisco +1 · Full-time · Posted Oct 6, 2026
- Location
- San Francisco
New York City - Experience
- 7+ years of customer-facing technical delivery leadership.
About the job
Leads end-to-end technical delivery of customer deployments, coordinating teams to move AI systems from prototype through production and adoption.
What you'll do
- Translate customer objectives into delivery plans; manage milestones, dependencies, sequencing, and execution across teams.
- Embed with customers to deploy systems, support onboarding and adoption, and measure impact and ROI.
- Share field insights and reusable patterns with Product and Research to inform products, models, and roadmaps.
What they ask for
- 7+ years of customer-facing technical delivery leadership.
- Track record leading large, complex, high-stakes customer engagements.
- Strong technical fluency, including discussing architectures and making delivery trade-offs.
- Experience shipping AI/LLM systems, including understanding integration basics and production pitfalls.
Nice to have
- Experience leading customer engagements involving AI.
- Enjoys onsite customer work; stated travel is often 25–50%, sometimes higher.
Pay
$230K – $294K USD base salary
Tools
AI/LLM
AI focus
Leads production deployment and adoption of AI/LLM systems, and shares deployment patterns and field insights to improve products and models.
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