Strategic Delivery Lead

Job description

About the Team OpenAI’s Forward Deployed Engineering (FDE) team turns research breakthroughs into production-grade systems. We embed deeply with customers to solve high-leverage problems and act as the delivery engine for our most complex large-scale engagements. We move quickly from prototype to production and surface reusable patterns that shape our platform. We operate at the intersection of deployment and development – working closely with OpenAI Research, Product and Partnerships. About the Role: As a Strategic Delivery Lead (SDL), you will define how OpenAI orchestrates complex, multi‑workstream customer programs end‑to‑end. Expect urgency to be high and ambiguity to be the default. You will own the plan, governance, and value realization - translating executive‑level business outcomes into a delivery roadmap, running day‑to‑day execution across FDEs, Researchers, Product, Partnerships, and customer teams, and ensuring adoption lands in production. You will map problems, structure delivery, and keep teams moving—holding the bar on both quality and pace. You will be accountable for the success of the overall program - sequencing work, aligning stakeholders, managing risk/chang...