OpenAI

Enablement Lead, Government

OpenAI$110K — $130K *
Education, Government & Non-Profit
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 6+ years in customer-facing roles related to enablement, instructional design, or adoption in government environments.
  • Strong understanding of public service and ability to build credibility with government leaders and teams.
  • Exceptional presentation and communication skills, adept at simplifying complex AI topics for diverse audiences.
  • Experience in designing learning journeys and conducting large-scale training initiatives.
  • Practical fluency in OpenAI products, especially ChatGPT and Agents, with insights on their application in government.
  • Proficient writer capable of creating compelling training and engagement materials.

Responsibilities

  • Own enablement strategy for OpenAI products in government settings.
  • Lead customers through the full enablement lifecycle from onboarding to sustained usage.
  • Define and manage structured enablement programs with clear objectives and measures.
  • Design and deliver high-impact engagement activities tailored to various audience levels.
  • Guide government clients through organizational change and translate capabilities into practical workflows.
  • Serve as subject matter expert for specific products and government use cases.
  • Develop tailored learning journeys and materials that ensure effective adoption at scale.
  • Provide timely product education and support workforce communication strategies for broader engagement.

Benefits

  • Hybrid work model with three days in the office per week.
  • Relocation assistance for new employees.
  • Opportunity for travel and regular engagement at government sites.
  • Access to continuous learning and professional development resources.
  • Involvement in impactful projects that enhance public service through AI.
Full Job Description
About the Role

The Enablement Lead, Government is a specialist role focused on delivering high-impact enablement and adoption services across OpenAI's product suite. This role is responsible for designing and delivering experiences that support repeatable adoption frameworks, drive sustained activation, expand the breadth and depth of usage, and produce measurable value for government organizations.

This role sits at the intersection of enablement, education, adoption, community, content, and customer experience. It blends strong product fluency, instructional design, customer advisory, and a deep understanding of public service. You will lead live workshops, deliver enablement programs, and design adoption interventions for audiences ranging from front-line public servants and technical practitioners to senior government leaders.

You will be a trusted guide to government customers, helping them learn, share, teach, celebrate successes, and use AI confidently in their day-to-day work. You will help organizations understand not only what OpenAI's products can do, but how to apply them safely and effectively while respecting their missions, operating environments, workforce needs, and responsibilities to the public.

Success in this role means accelerating customer confidence, increasing product adoption, supporting successful launches and deployments, and helping government organizations translate product capabilities into tangible mission outcomes. You will own outcomes related to activation and sustained usage while helping shape how OpenAI enables and supports public-sector customers at scale.

This role is based in San Francisco or Washington, D.C. We use a hybrid work model of three days in the office per week and offer relocation assistance to new employees. Travel and regular work from government customer sites are required.

In this role, you will:
  • Own the enablement of OpenAI products, including ChatGPT Enterprise and Agents, helping define effective patterns for responsible adoption across government organizations.
  • Lead government customers through the full enablement lifecycle, from initial onboarding and activation through expansion, optimization, and long-term adoption.
  • Define and manage structured enablement and deployment programs with clear goals, milestones, owners, and measures of success.
  • Design and deliver high-impact engagements-including onboarding sessions, advanced capability training, executive briefings, academies, hackathons, listening sessions, and hands-on mission or workflow labs-for audiences ranging from senior leaders to front-line staff.
  • Guide government leaders, champions, technical teams, and working teams through organizational change by building confidence, establishing effective habits, and translating product capabilities into practical workflows and mission outcomes.
  • Serve as a subject matter expert for designated products, roles, or government mission areas, building deep expertise and identifying emerging public-sector use cases for new product capabilities.
  • Develop government-specific learning journeys, training materials, playbooks, FAQs, demonstrations, use cases, customer impact stories, and communications that enable high-quality adoption programs to scale.
  • Provide timely education for product launches, new features, and capability rollouts, translating product updates into clear and practical relevance for government users.
  • Advise government customers on workforce communications and engagement strategies that build awareness, confidence, participation, and sustained use.
  • Build trusted relationships with government leaders, program owners, technical teams, champions, and front-line public servants, creating experiences that reflect an understanding of their constraints, motivations, and responsibilities to the public.
  • Support government customer communities, events, and peer-learning experiences by keeping resources, discussions, updates, and thought leadership useful and current.
  • Identify and amplify government champions, creative use cases, and meaningful customer outcomes that encourage responsible experimentation, recognize public servants' contributions, and help other organizations learn.
  • Partner closely with Sales, Customer Success, Solutions Engineering, Solutions Architecture, Delivery, Product, Global Affairs, Communications, Marketing, Readiness, and other teams to deliver cohesive experiences for public-sector customers.
  • Gather and synthesize government customer feedback, adoption signals, participation data, and engagement outcomes to improve enablement programs and bring the voice of public servants back to Product and other internal stakeholders.
  • Identify patterns across government customers and translate them into scalable programs, content, playbooks, and best practices without losing the human connection required to support public servants effectively.
You might thrive in this role if you:
  • Have 6+ years of experience in customer-facing, enablement, instructional, adoption, or transformation roles, engaging executive, business, and technical audiences in government or similarly complex enterprise environments.
  • Understand and value public service and can build credibility with government leaders, program owners, technical teams, and front-line public servants.
  • Possess exceptional presentation, facilitation, and communication skills, particularly when translating complex AI capabilities into clear, accurate, and practical value for audiences with different levels of technical fluency.
  • Have experience designing learning journeys and leading workshops, training programs, executive engagements, customer events, or scaled adoption initiatives.
  • Bring strong practical fluency and enthusiasm across ChatGPT, Agents, and the broader OpenAI product ecosystem, with an understanding of how AI can be applied to real-world government workflows.
  • Are a versatile writer and storyteller who can turn complex information into useful and compelling training materials, presentations, demonstrations, communications, and customer stories.
  • Can connect product capabilities and enablement activities to measurable outcomes such as activation, sustained usage, improved quality, faster delivery, reduced administrative burden, better decision-making, risk reduction, customer satisfaction, or mission impact.
  • Can identify patterns across government customers and convert them into scalable systems, programs, content, and best practices.
  • Are highly organized and comfortable managing multiple workstreams, adapting in live customer environments, and bringing clarity and momentum to ambiguous situations.
  • Bring humility, empathy, curiosity, and a genuine desire to help public servants and colleagues succeed.
  • Are personally committed to fostering the safe and responsible evolution of AI.


About OpenAI

OpenAI is an artificial intelligence research laboratory consisting of the for-profit corporation OpenAI LP and its parent company, the non-profit OpenAI Inc. The company was founded in 2015 by a group of technology leaders, including Elon Musk, Sam Altman, Greg Brockman, Ilya Sutskever, and John Schulman. OpenAI's mission is to develop and promote friendly AI for the betterment of humanity. The company has developed a number of cutting-edge AI technologies, including GPT-3, a language processing system that can generate human-like text. OpenAI has received funding from a number of high-profile investors, including LinkedIn co-founder Reid Hoffman and venture capitalist Peter Thiel.
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