OpenAI
Deployment Lead, Life Sciences- NYC
$207K–$294K
San Francisco · Hybrid · Full-time · Posted Sep 23, 2026
- Experience
- 7+ years of customer-facing technical delivery leadership; no alternative stated.
About the job
Leads end-to-end delivery and adoption of AI deployments for Life Sciences customers, coordinating engineering, research, product, and customer teams.
What you'll do
- Translate customer goals into delivery plans; manage workstreams, milestones, dependencies, and trade-offs.
- Lead production deployments, onboarding, adoption, change management, and measurement of customer value and ROI.
- Share field insights and reusable solution patterns with Product and Research to inform products, models, and roadmaps.
What they ask for
- 7+ years of customer-facing technical delivery leadership and expertise in Life Sciences.
- Track record leading large, complex, high-stakes customer engagements with tight coordination and fast decisions.
- Strong technical fluency, including evaluating architectures, mapping customer workflows and data, and making trade-offs.
- Experience shipping AI/LLM systems; understanding of solution patterns, integrations, and production pitfalls.
Nice to have
- Experience leading engagements involving AI.
- Enjoys onsite customer work; the posting notes this is often 25–50%, sometimes higher.
Pay
$207K – $294K USD base salary
Tools
AI, LLM
AI focus
Deploy AI capabilities across Life Sciences drug discovery, development, and operations; lead AI/LLM systems from prototypes through production, adoption, and scale.
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