OpenAI
Deployment Lead, Forward Deployed Engineering (FDE) - Platform
$207K–$294K
San Francisco +1 · Hybrid · Full-time · Posted Oct 27, 2026
- Location
- San Francisco
New York City - Experience
- 5+ years of product leadership or customer-facing technical delivery experience.
About the job
Leads customer validation, launch, and scalable adoption of repeatable platform solutions, coordinating product, engineering, GTM, field teams, and partners.
What you'll do
- Define solutions and go-to-market paths; use customer and market evidence to prioritize scope and investment.
- Select design partners, run pilots, and set quality and launch criteria.
- Equip field teams and partners to deliver solutions, then track adoption and establish ongoing ownership.
What they ask for
- Experience taking technical products from discovery through production and adoption.
- Ability to translate customer workflows and deployment evidence into product priorities.
- Ability to reason through integrations, data, evaluations, and enterprise deployment constraints.
- Ability to build trust and drive decisions across engineering, Product, GTM, partners, and customers.
Pay
$207K – $294K (base salary)
AI focus
Deploys customer-facing AI solutions by turning research breakthroughs and use cases into production systems and scalable, repeatable solutions.
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