Product Operations Manager, ChatGPT - job 1 of 2

About the Team

The ChatGPT team works across research, engineering, product, and design to bring OpenAI’s technology to consumers and businesses. We seek to learn from deployment and distribute the benefits of AI, while ensuring that this powerful tool is used responsibly and safely.

About the Role

This Product Operations Manager role is for a senior IC. Our ideal candidate has deep experience in Product Operations at one or more scaling tech companies, working very closely with Product/Engineering and XFN partners, on both central systems (e.g. launch calendar / launch readiness) and bringing specific products to market by running betas and launch activities.

This role is based in San Francisco, CA. We use a hybrid work model of 3 days in the office per week and offer relocation assistance to new employees.

In this role, you will:

• Program manage key betas, launches, launch events, and other strategic cross-functional initiatives

• Leverage SQL and data visualization tools to monitor product metrics, understand customer feedback trends, and support product optimization.

• Establish and lead ongoing programs and systems that provide leverage for all of Applied and sub-groups of Applied (examples: Feedback loop programs to synthesize the top needs of customers from a range of input channels, running ongoing execution sync meetings).

• Partner with product leaders to manage org cadence programs like planning, goal setting, and mid-cycle check in processes.

• Foster strong partnerships across Product, Engineering, GTM, and Support to align goals, streamline communication, and support business priorities.

• Assist in building the Product Operations function at OpenAI

You might thrive in this role if you:

• Are a great operator who can create organization in chaos and help cross-functional teams execute

• Can build systems/tools (via code / no-code / AI) to facilitate internal processes with a great user experience for those who need to use them.

• Are fantastic at building cross-functional relationships and having empathy for the many roles involved in bringing products to market and supporting them.

• Are able to move fast to get initial versions of solutions up, and then iterate them to improve the experience and scalability.

• Are a great communicator across written, presentation, and visual forms. You are highly influential with people who don’t report to you.

• Are engaged and curious about the rapidly evolving AI landscape.

• Can build a fun, inclusive, driven team culture

• Are able to understand our products and models to determine appropriate solutions to user problems.

Specific technologies / skills that will help you in this role

• Programming Languages: Python, SQL, JavaScript (for automation scripts).

• No-Code/Low-Code Platforms: e.g. Airtable, Zapier, Retool.

• Data Analysis & Visualization Tools: Experience with data languages/tools like SQL, Google Sheets automations, Databricks.

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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