Program Manager - It Operations

OpenAI OpenAI · AI Frontier · San Francisco, CA · IT

Program Manager to help scale IT operations at OpenAI, leading cross-functional programs to improve operational maturity, streamline team collaboration, and build durable operational capabilities. The role focuses on improving scalability, consistency, and operational excellence across various IT support functions and partnering with technical teams to ensure operational readiness for new deployments and infrastructure investments.

What you'd actually do

  1. Lead cross-functional operational programs that improve scalability, consistency, and operational maturity.
  2. Drive operational excellence initiatives across IT Support, employee lifecycle operations, meeting room and calendaring services, onsite support, vending, and research support environments.
  3. Build operating models, readiness plans, escalation paths, governance cadences, and success metrics for complex operational programs.
  4. Partner with technical teams to ensure new deployments, infrastructure investments, and internal platforms are operationally ready and sustainably supported at scale.
  5. Drive high-priority operational programs supporting company growth, including infrastructure expansion, operational integrations, and other emerging initiatives.

Skills

Required

  • program management
  • cross-functional initiatives
  • high-growth, fast-moving environments
  • operational processes
  • service models
  • operating frameworks
  • technical and operational teams
  • internal operations
  • workplace technology
  • support environments
  • large-scale service-oriented programs
  • judgment
  • execution skills
  • prioritization
  • alignment
  • sustained momentum
  • communication
  • stakeholder management
  • technical partners
  • non-technical partners

What the JD emphasized

  • 10+ years of program management experience
  • Experience building and scaling operational processes
  • A strong track record improving internal operations