The opportunity
The OpenAI for Government team brings frontier AI to public institutions to help them achieve their missions. We partner with government leaders, mission owners, and technical teams to deploy AI tools responsibly, with the reliability, security, and support needed for meaningful use.
What you'll do
Build trusted relationships with senior government leaders, program owners,: and technical and mission teams to identify priorities and turn senior alignment into actionable engagements.
Own delivery plans for assigned federal civilian and state and local: government engagements, with clear milestones, accountable owners, customer acceptance criteria, and measurable mission or operational outcomes.
Translate customer and mission needs into requirements and decisions that: engineers, domain experts, and senior leaders can act on; communicate progress, limitations, risks, and dependencies clearly.
Connect customer mission and technical teams with OpenAI Research, Product,: and Engineering teams to assess promising applications and move feasible opportunities into scoped, supported projects.
Coordinate the Applied AI Architect, specialist engineers, and customer: technical teams on architecture, data access, evaluation, integration, and deployment requirements.
Build sustained adoption through practical enablement, user feedback,: workflow support, and repeatable playbooks that can be applied across agencies and government customers.
What they're looking for
- Lead executive reviews and focused workshops in Washington and at customer: sites, bringing the right decision-makers and technical experts together to resolve issues and advance delivery.
- Identify security, data, infrastructure, contractual, and resourcing risks: early; work with the accountable teams to resolve them and escalate decisions promptly.
- Prioritize across a small, matrixed team, make clear trade-offs, and maintain: momentum as customer needs and model capabilities evolve.
- Coordinate with Account Directors, policy colleagues, and partners on broader: government engagement, while keeping delivery commitments aligned with available resources and approved capabilities.
