Strategy & Operations, Support

OpenAI OpenAI · AI Frontier · San Francisco, CA · User Operations

This role is a Strategy & Operations position within the User Operations team at OpenAI. The primary focus is on driving strategic and operational initiatives to scale, mature, and optimize customer support. While the role involves leveraging AI/LLMs and working with product/engineering teams on automation and optimization, the core function is operational strategy and execution, not direct AI/ML model development or deployment. The role aims to enhance customer experience and operational excellence in support.

What you'd actually do

  1. Work within User Operations and across OpenAI to leverage AI/LLMs across the organization.
  2. Collaborate with leaders to identify, evaluate, and prioritize new strategic and operational initiatives, ensuring alignment with company goals and unique organizational objectives
  3. Thrives in chaos, and relentlessly drives program structure conducive to progress and execution.
  4. Work with product, engineering, and data teams to uncover and address key operational challenges and growth/scaling opportunities within the support organization, such as automation, process optimization, and enhanced self-service options.
  5. Deep dive into the critical drivers of our support operations and identifying opportunities for optimization and innovation.

Skills

Required

  • 8+ years of experience in business operations, strategy, venture capital, private equity, consulting
  • High impact work in a technical environment
  • Comfortable operating at all altitudes – discussing strategy and vision with executives, and troubleshooting operations with individual contributors
  • Extensive experience in taking end-to-end ownership of large, ambiguous problems, and breaking them down into clear, actionable plans
  • Direct experience engaging with executives and senior leaders to influence and drive strategic decisions
  • Highly analytical, with strong skills in data modeling and operational forecasting to drive insights and decision-making
  • Excellent communication and collaboration skills
  • Skilled in influencing stakeholders across all levels of the organization

Nice to have

  • Passion for technology, AI, and customer service
  • Enthusiastic about the transformative impact of AI on business and society

What the JD emphasized

  • AI has and will continue to fundamentally change the customer experience and the way we build tools and organizations; this role requires a proactive, strategic planner and executor that can think ten steps ahead, defining the future of customer support at OpenAI and in the world.
  • leveraging technology and concepts that are not yet established in the world (some of which you will produce yourself).