OpenAI
Technical Program Manager, Developer Velocity
$207K–$445K
San Francisco · Manager · Full-time · Posted Sep 2, 2026
About the job
Leads cross-functional programs to improve ChatGPT developer workflows and make deployments and releases faster, safer, and more reliable.
What you'll do
- Own the roadmap for local development, CI, testing, build workflows, and release infrastructure.
- Drive deployment safety and release reliability, including rollout guardrails, rollback readiness, and post-deployment validation.
- Define productivity and reliability metrics, prioritize developer friction, and coordinate adoption of tooling across teams.
What they ask for
- Experience leading complex technical programs across developer infrastructure, CI/CD, build and test systems, release engineering, or distributed systems.
- Ability to engage deeply with engineers on workflow architecture, deployment systems, rollout risk, observability, and operational tradeoffs.
- Evidence of measurable improvements in developer velocity, deployment throughput, release reliability, or engineering efficiency.
- Ability to lead cross-functional execution, use evidence and metrics to prioritize, and communicate across technical and executive audiences.
Pay
$207K – $445K USD base salary
Tools
CI/CD
AI focus
The role improves developer infrastructure for ChatGPT; it does not specify direct AI development work.
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