Manager, Applied AI Architects

OpenAI
Tokyo
Workplace: HybridFull timeFunction: Data Science & Machine LearningExperience: 10+ yearsSkills: ["Executive communication","Customer stewardship","Cross-functional leadership","Architectural judgment","Partnership building"]

Lead the Applied AI Architect team in Tokyo, partnering with OpenAI’s largest and most complex customers across Japan to turn frontier models into production value. Own technical account plans for ChatGPT Enterprise, the OpenAI API, Codex, and agentic AI solutions—setting the operating model, guiding multi-threaded customer journeys, coaching technical leaders, and mobilizing specialists to deliver measurable business impact and healthy adoption.

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Manager, Applied AI Architects

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Job Summary

Lead the Applied AI Architect team in Tokyo, partnering with OpenAI’s largest and most complex customers across Japan to turn frontier models into production value. Own technical account plans for ChatGPT Enterprise, the OpenAI API, Codex, and agentic AI solutions—setting the operating model, guiding multi-threaded customer journeys, coaching technical leaders, and mobilizing specialists to deliver measurable business impact and healthy adoption.
Location: Tokyo
Workplace: Hybrid
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: Data Science & Machine Learning
Seniority: Manager level

Key Responsibilities

  • •Hire, coach, and develop a high-performing team of Applied AI Architects to drive technical excellence and customer stewardship.
  • •Set and continuously refine the operating model for Applied AI Architecture across Japan, aligning company priorities with strategic customer needs.
  • •Partner with Sales leadership and Account Directors to prioritize accounts and allocate technical resources for consequential engagements.
  • •Own technical account plans and account health: drive technical milestones, adoption priorities, risks, and measurable customer impact for portfolio expansion.
  • •Lead complex customer journeys from executive vision to production value, coaching architectures across models, applications, data, integration, security, privacy, and deployment.

Key Requirements

  • •10+ years of experience in customer-facing technical roles (e.g., solutions architecture/engineering, technical account leadership, AI deployment, or technical consulting), including work with large enterprises.
  • •4+ years of people-management experience hiring, coaching, and developing high-performing customer-facing technical teams.
  • •Deep technical acumen in modern AI systems, frontier models, agentic applications, and platform technologies spanning software/cloud architecture and APIs.
  • •Experience guiding enterprises from technical discovery and evaluation through production adoption, healthy usage, and measurable business impact.
  • •Strong executive communication skills with credibility across CTO/CIO/CISO levels, boards, business leaders, and hands-on engineers.
Experience:10+ yearsEnterprise deploymentAI solutionsAgentic applications
Skills:Executive communicationCustomer stewardshipCross-functional leadershipArchitectural judgmentPartnership building
Tech Stack:APIsCloud architectureIdentitySecurityPrivacyGovernanceEvaluationReliabilityDeployment

Company Brief

OpenAI
Develops and deploys advanced generative AI models (including ChatGPT and DALL·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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