Manager, Applied AI Architects

You might thrive in this role if you

• Possess deep technical acumen in modern AI systems, frontier models, agentic applications, platform technologies, software and cloud architecture, APIs, data integration, identity, security, privacy, evaluation, and enterprise deployment.
• Bring 10+ years of experience in customer-facing technical roles such as solutions architecture, solutions engineering, technical account leadership, AI deployment, or technical consulting, including work with large and complex enterprises.
• Have 4+ years of people-management experience hiring, coaching, and developing high-performing customer-facing technical teams.
• Have guided enterprise organizations from technical discovery and evaluation through production adoption, healthy usage, and measurable business impact.
• Demonstrate outstanding executive communication and presentation skills, with the ability to build credibility with CTOs, CIOs, CISOs, boards, business leaders, and hands-on engineers.
• Can lead a complex portfolio, make thoughtful resource-allocation decisions, and balance regional strategy with hands-on support for critical customer engagements.
• Exercise strong architectural judgment, including knowing when to go deep personally, when to coach the team, when to involve specialists, and how to define clear handoffs and ownership.
• Build strong partnerships across Sales, Product, Engineering, Research, Deployment, Customer Engagement, Security, Legal, Privacy, and external partner ecosystems.
• Are comfortable leading across Japan from Tokyo and adapting your approach to different industries, cultures, regulatory contexts, and customer operating models.
• Embody a customer-centric philosophy focused on durable value, responsible production adoption, technical excellence, and long-term partnership.
• Approach your work with humility, curiosity, a collaborative spirit, and a deep commitment to the safe and beneficial advancement of AI.

About OpenAI

OpenAI is an AI research and deployment company dedicated to ensuring that general-purpose artificial intelligence benefits all of humanity. We push the boundaries of the capabilities of AI systems and seek to safely deploy them to the world through our products. AI is an extremely powerful tool that must be created with safety and human needs at its core, and to achieve our mission, we must encompass and value the many different perspectives, voices, and experiences that form the full spectrum of humanity.

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