Technical Deployment Lead - Sydney

Technical Deployment Lead for OpenAI in Sydney. Founding role responsible for defining how OpenAI delivers complex AI deployments to customers, owning delivery end-to-end from embedding with customers to map workflows and ensuring components ship on time. Lead day-to-day execution across OpenAI FDEs, Researchers, and Customer Engineers; translate business outcomes into a technical plan; drive 0→1 prototypes through MVP and scale; partner with Product and Research to guide roadmaps; codify solution patterns and field signals; own value cases and ROI with KPIs and post-deployment measurement. Requires 7+ years of customer-facing technical delivery leadership, strong ability to operate in high-ambiguity environments, and experience shipping AI/LLM systems. Role is based in Sydney with a hybrid model (3 days in office), relocation assistance offered, and travel up to 25-50% to onsite customer work. The position emphasizes ownership, strategic pattern recognition, executive communication, and delivering measurable value against customer goals.