About the TeamOpenAI's Education team is building products that advance how people learn with AI. The team works across higher education institutions, K-12 districts, and country-level partnerships, including applied research on how AI affects learning and cognitive outcomes.
The product pod is early, about three months old, and owns ChatGPT Edu, ChatGPT for Teachers, and related product/research work. The team partners closely with go-to-market, research, Consumer Learning, and model teams to turn education-specific insights into product experiences that can improve ChatGPT more broadly.
Some of our recent work:
- New Education Plugins for ChatGPT Work and Codex
- New tools for understanding AI and learning outcomes
- Education for countries
- Advancements in higher education
- Early product work - Introducing Study Mode
About the RoleWe're looking for a hands-on Tech Lead Manager to lead a small, senior full-stack engineering team building AI-native learning experiences in ChatGPT. This person will combine technical execution, product judgment, and people leadership: they will write and ship code, manage engineers, and help shape the product direction for how students and Educationcators use AI.
In This Role, You Will- Lead and manage a team of three senior full-stack engineers.
- Build product experiences for ChatGPT Education, ChatGPT for Teachers, and AI-native learning workflows.
- Partner with research teams on field studies, randomized control trials, classifiers, data pipelines, and cognitive-outcome measurement.
- Collaborate with Consumer Learning and model teams to translate education insights into broader ChatGPT behavior and product improvements.
- Drive execution across product, engineering, research, go-to-market, and partner teams.
- Help define product strategy, priorities, and delivery plans for a new product pod.
You Might Thrive In This Role If You- Have several years of direct people-management experience with engineers.
- Are still highly technical and comfortable doing IC engineering work.
- Have strong product sense and can operate like a GM for a focused product area.
- Can lead senior engineers with credibility and clear technical direction.
- Are effective at cross-functional influence, communication, and project management.
- Are genuinely interested in education, learning science, and how AI can improve learning outcomes.
- Have experience operating in a large, complex technology organization.
Nice To Have- Experience in education, learning products, learning science, or edtech.
- Experience across both larger technology companies and startup-like environments.
- Experience building products that connect research, data pipelines, and user-facing product experiences.
- Experience with B2B products that can later scale into broader consumer workflows.
