OpenAI

Technical Systems Program Manager, User Operations

OpenAI$135K — $160K *
Enterprise Technology
8 - 10 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 8+ years of experience in program management or technical program management roles
  • Strong understanding of CRM workflows and user operations
  • Experience with CRM systems and routing engines
  • Ability to drive complex cross-functional initiatives
  • Technical fluency across APIs, integrations, and SaaS ecosystems
  • Experience in SOX/SOC2-controlled environments with SDLC and QA knowledge
  • Strong communication skills for articulating priorities and risks

Responsibilities

  • Own and manage CRM systems initiatives
  • Collaborate with business stakeholders to identify and solve operational pain points
  • Align cross-functional teams for prioritization and execution
  • Operationalize AI-native workflows with scalable automation
  • Define and build agentic workflows in partnership with various teams

Benefits

  • Relocation assistance available
  • Hybrid work schedule (Monday - Wednesday in office)
Full Job Description
About the Role

OpenAI's top-of-funnel is evolving into a signal-driven, data-orchestrated engine powered by AI-native workflows, enriched customer intelligence, and increasingly interconnected systems. We are looking for a Technical Systems Program Manager to help drive the strategy, alignment, prioritization, and execution of these systems across Salesforce and adjacent platforms.

This role will partner closely with Engineering, Revenue Operations, Data, and Enterprise Platform teams to operationalize scalable CRM workflows. The ideal candidate combines strong technical fluency, operational systems thinking, and stakeholder leadership with the ability to drive execution across highly cross-functional environments.

This role is based in San Francisco, CA, and the team works a hybrid schedule (Monday - Wednesday in office). We will offer relocation assistance if needed.

In this role, you will:
  • Own and drive CRM systems initiatives across support
  • Partner with senior business stakeholders and engineering teams to identify operational pain points, define scalable solutions, evaluate technical tradeoffs, and execute across Salesforce and adjacent platforms
  • Align cross-functional stakeholders including Revenue Operations, Support Delivery, Risk, Engineering, Data, Legal, and Enterprise Platform teams while driving prioritization and execution
  • Help operationalize AI-native workflows by defining and building scalable automation, orchestration, agentic workflows, and human-in-the-loop processes in partnership with cross-functional teams


You might thrive in this role if you have:
  • You have 8+ years of experience driving high-impact technical programs in a program management, technical program management or adjacent role
  • Strong understanding of CRM workflows customer systems supporting user operations or support organizations
  • Experience working across CRM systems, routing engines, and adjacent systems
  • Proven ability to drive complex cross-functional initiatives from discovery and stakeholder alignment through execution and operationalization
  • Strong technical fluency across APIs, integrations, event-driven architectures, enterprise SaaS ecosystems, and Salesforce platform capabilities
  • Experience partnering closely with Engineering, Revenue Operations, Security, and Enterprise Platform teams
  • Experience operating within SOX/SOC2-controlled environments with strong understanding of SDLC, QA, release management, and operational governance
  • Strong written and verbal communication skills with the ability to clearly communicate priorities, tradeoffs, risks, and execution plans
Nice to Have
  • Ability to independently reason through technical system design, integration dependencies, and operational tradeoffs alongside engineering teams
  • Experience working within AI-native, high-growth, or highly ambiguous operating environments
  • Exposure to global support operations
  • Ability to operate scrappily and iteratively while maintaining a strong bias toward scalability, governance, and long-term maintainability


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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100 employees
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2015

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