AI Deployment Manager - Pilots - San Francisco

OpenAI OpenAI · AI Frontier · San Francisco, CA · Go To Market

Customer-facing role responsible for leading enterprise AI pilots, from scoping to executive readout, to help customers evaluate OpenAI's products, identify use cases, and generate signals tied to business value. Focuses on driving activation, sustained usage, and measurable impact.

What you'd actually do

  1. Own the design and execution of enterprise AI pilots, including scoping, cohort definition, and success criteria aligned to a clear commercial decision.
  2. Identify and prioritize a small set of high-impact use cases that can generate credible signal within a 30–45 day pilot.
  3. Drive activation and sustained engagement across pilot cohorts through targeted enablement, office hours, and workflow-level coaching.
  4. Monitor pilot performance and adapt in real time, diagnosing gaps in engagement, use case traction, or stakeholder alignment.
  5. Translate pilot signals into clear, executive-ready recommendations, including whether and how the customer should expand.

Skills

Required

  • Enterprise consulting
  • Customer success
  • Program management
  • Solutions engineering
  • Customer-facing role
  • Executive and senior technical audience engagement
  • Leading structured pilots, POCs, or adoption programs
  • Presentation and communication skills
  • Conveying technical concepts and pilot outcomes clearly to executive stakeholders
  • Driving product adoption and change management
  • Technical fluency to reason about data access, integrations, and deployment constraints
  • Connecting technical capabilities to concrete business outcomes
  • Operating in fast-paced, ambiguous environments
  • Making tradeoffs in real time
  • High ownership mindset
  • Collaborative approach

Nice to have

  • Experience driving change management within large organizations
  • Moving users from initial experimentation to sustained usage

What the JD emphasized

  • 8+ years of experience in enterprise consulting, customer success, program management, solutions engineering, or a similar customer-facing role
  • Have led structured pilots, POCs, or adoption programs tied to a clear business or commercial decision.
  • Are personally committed to the responsible and ethical deployment of AI.