Deployment Lead, Forward Deployed Engineering (FDE) - PlatformActive$207K–$294K

The opportunity

OpenAI’s Forward Deployed Engineering (FDE) team partners with customers to turn research breakthroughs into production systems. Within FDE, the Platform team turns promising use cases into repeatable solutions to deliver at scale.

What you'll do

  • Define clear solutions around a valuable problem and shape the path to market.

  • Use customer, field learnings, and market evidence to set the next proof: point, narrow scope, and recommend where to invest.

  • Select design partners and use pilots to test value and repeatability.

  • Define quality and launch criteria.

  • Enable field teams and partners to scope, sell, and deliver the solution: using playbooks and building the support model they need.

  • Track adoption and establish ongoing ownership as solutions scale.

What they're looking for

  • Bring 5+ years of product leadership or customer-facing technical delivery experience.
  • Have taken technical products from discovery through production and adoption.
  • Translate customer workflows and deployment evidence into clear product priorities.
  • Can reason through integrations, data, evaluations, and enterprise deployment constraints.