# Manager, Applied AI Architects (Australia)

**Company**: OpenAI
**Location**: Sydney
**Experience**: executive
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology
**Wikidata**: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q124605186

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## Description

The Applied AI Architect team at OpenAI partners with organisations to turn OpenAI's most capable models into meaningful, real-world impact.

As the Manager of Applied AI Architects, you will lead a team of senior technical leaders responsible for the technical strategy, customer journey, and path to production value for a portfolio of OpenAI customers across Australia and New Zealand.

In this role, you will:

- Hire, coach, and develop a high-performing team of Applied AI Architects

- Independently define and refine your team's strategy, priorities, and operating model

- Partner with Sales leadership and Account Directors to prioritise accounts and opportunities

- Ensure Applied AI Architects serve as the primary technical advisors for their portfolios

- Lead complex, multi-threaded customer journeys

- Coach the team on Applied AI architectures

- Build trusted relationships with C-suite and board-level stakeholders

- Mobilise Deployment Engineering, implementation, enablement, Product, Engineering, Research, Security, Legal, Privacy, partners, and other specialists

- Remain accountable for the team's technical progress and customer outcomes

- Establish a rigorous view of portfolio health

- Translate patterns from the field into actionable feedback for Product, Engineering, Research, and go-to-market teams

- Build a culture that balances ambitious customer outcomes with responsible AI deployment

You might thrive in this role if you:

- Possess deep technical acumen in modern AI systems, frontier models, agentic applications, platform technologies, software and cloud architecture, APIs, data integration, identity, security, privacy, evaluation, and enterprise deployment

- Bring 10+ years of experience in customer-facing technical roles

- Have 4+ years of people-management experience

- Have guided enterprise organisations from technical discovery and evaluation through production adoption

- Demonstrate outstanding executive communication and presentation skills

- Can lead a complex portfolio and make thoughtful resource-allocation decisions

- Exercise strong architectural judgement

- Build strong partnerships across Sales, Product, Engineering, Research, Deployment, Customer Engagement, Security, Legal, Privacy, and external partner ecosystems

- Embody a customer-centric philosophy

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## Skills

### Required
- modern AI systems
- frontier models
- agentic applications
- platform technologies
- software and cloud architecture
- APIs
- data integration
- identity
- security
- privacy
- evaluation
- enterprise deployment
- solutions architecture
- solutions engineering
- technical account leadership
- AI deployment
- technical consulting

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