# AI Deployment Engineering Manager, Startups

**Company**: OpenAI
**Location**: San Francisco; New York City
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: Full time
**Salary**: Zone A$251K – $335K • Offers Equity
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology
**Wikidata**: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q124605186

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## Description

We are looking for an experienced AI Deployment Engineering Manager to lead and scale the Startups AI Deployment Engineering motion. This team helps high-growth startups move quickly from experimentation to production, unlock meaningful usage, and build durable technical partnerships with OpenAI.

As a leader in this role, you will define how OpenAI supports startup customers at scale: identifying where deep technical engagement can unlock outsized impact, building repeatable deployment mechanisms, and ensuring the team can serve a broad and dynamic customer base without losing quality or strategic focus.

Key responsibilities include:

- Crafting and continuously refining the strategic vision and operating model for the Startups AI Deployment Engineering team

- Leading, mentoring, and growing a team of high-performing technical ICs supporting startup customers

- Helping startups move from early experimentation to production usage by identifying technical blockers, advising on architecture, and driving practical paths to deployment

- Partnering closely with Sales to determine where technical engagement can accelerate adoption, production usage, and long-term account growth

- Representing the technical voice of startup customers by synthesizing high-signal feedback, especially around developer experience, product gaps, deployment blockers, model performance, and emerging use cases

Success in this role may look like increased startup account usage, a strong cadence of successful customer sprints and production-oriented technical engagements, high-quality customer stories, and the creation of repeatable startup deployment patterns.

Experience in founding, scaling, or operating within early-stage startups, ideally in technical leadership roles where you owned both product or customer outcomes and technical execution, is a must. Strong technical depth across APIs, platform products, AI/ML systems, developer workflows, and production deployment considerations is also essential.

## Skills

### Required
- APIs
- Platform products
- AI/ML systems
- Developer workflows
- Production deployment considerations

### Nice to have
- Strong technical depth
- Experience in founding, scaling, or operating within early-stage startups
- Technical leadership roles
- Product or customer outcomes
- Technical execution

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