Technical Program Manager

OpenAI is seeking a senior-level Technical Program Manager to lead end-to-end operational readiness and process engineering for our most critical hardware programs. In this role, you will set the strategic direction for manufacturing readiness, aligning cross-functional teams, global suppliers, and operational partners to ensure flawless execution from prototype to sustained high-volume production. You will own the readiness roadmap, establish operational excellence standards, and drive accountability at every stage to meet aggressive product launch schedules and uncompromising quality benchmarks.

In this role, you will:

• Architect and lead comprehensive readiness strategies that encompass process engineering, tooling, materials, and factory capability across global sites.

• Partner with senior engineering and operations leadership to develop, validate, and scale robust manufacturing processes that support performance, yield, and cost goals.

• Define and govern readiness gates, ensuring alignment across design, supply chain, manufacturing, and quality teams.

• Anticipate and proactively mitigate technical and operational risks before they impact program milestones.

• Represent operations at the executive level, delivering clear status, risk assessments, and data-driven recommendations.

• Direct on-site build readiness activities at key manufacturing sites to ensure smooth transitions from NPI to mass production.
  

You might thrive in this role if you:

• Bring significant experience leading large-scale manufacturing readiness or process engineering programs for complex hardware.

• Operate effectively across executive, engineering, and factory levels, influencing without direct authority.

• Are adept at managing multi-site, multi-partner programs under highly compressed timelines.

• Balance strategic decision-making with the ability to dive deep into technical and operational details.

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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