Technical Deployment Lead - Tokyo

OpenAI
Tokyo
Workplace: HybridFull timeFunction: Administration & Executive AssistanceExperience: 7+ yearsSkills: ["Communication","Leadership","Problem-solving","Stakeholder management","Project management"]

Founding Technical Deployment Lead role focused on defining delivery plans, embedding with customers, and driving end-to-end production deployments of OpenAI AI/LLM solutions. Expect 7+ years of customer-facing technical delivery leadership, high autonomy, and frequent travel (25-50%). Hybrid work in Tokyo with relocation assistance and close collaboration with Product, Research, and customer teams to deliver measurable outcomes.

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Technical Deployment Lead - Tokyo

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Job Summary

Founding Technical Deployment Lead role focused on defining delivery plans, embedding with customers, and driving end-to-end production deployments of OpenAI AI/LLM solutions. Expect 7+ years of customer-facing technical delivery leadership, high autonomy, and frequent travel (25-50%). Hybrid work in Tokyo with relocation assistance and close collaboration with Product, Research, and customer teams to deliver measurable outcomes.
Location: Tokyo
Workplace: Hybrid
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: Administration & Executive Assistance

Key Responsibilities

  • ā€¢Own the technical delivery plan for multiple interdependent workstreams and translate business objectives into a roadmap with milestones, dependencies, and acceptance criteria.
  • ā€¢Run day-to-day engineering execution and drive delivery across OpenAI FDE and customer teams, keeping progress unblocked and sequenced.
  • ā€¢Embed with customer teams to land production deployments, map workflows, shape tools/integrations, and lead onboarding, adoption, and change management.
  • ā€¢Partner with Product and Research to ensure platform components and research workstreams land in time to support deployment goals.
  • ā€¢Codify reusable solution patterns and field signals to improve product and model performance.
Travel: High travel

Key Requirements

  • ā€¢7+ years of customer-facing technical delivery leadership.
  • ā€¢Experience leading large, complex customer engagements with AI involvement.
  • ā€¢Ability to operate in high ambiguity environments and map customer workflows to technical plans.
  • ā€¢Strong technical fluency with the ability to discuss architectures and trade-offs with stakeholders.
  • ā€¢Willingness to onsite with customers to accelerate delivery (often 25-50%).
Experience:7+ yearsAIEnterprise deploymentsCustomer delivery
Skills:CommunicationLeadershipProblem-solvingStakeholder managementProject management
Tech Stack:AILLMProduction deploymentsArchitectureSystems thinking

Company Brief

OpenAI
Develops and deploys advanced generative AI models (including ChatGPT and DALLĀ·E) and AI infrastructure, providing APIs and consumer products to accelerate safe AGI for broad benefit.
Industry: AI & Machine Learning
Company Size: Enterprise (1,001+ employees)
Revenue: USD 1B+
Growth: Scaleup
Valuation: Hectocorn (USD 100B+)
Funding: Series E+
Headquarters: San Francisco, United States
Founded: 2015
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