Technical Deployment Lead, Forward Deployed Engineering - London
OpenAI
London, United Kingdom
Remote
Customer-facing technical delivery leadership
Ai/llm systems deployment
Translate business outcomes to technical plan
As a Technical Deployment Lead (TDL), you will define how OpenAI delivers complex systems to customers, owning how they are built, shipped, and adopted
Job Summary
As a Technical Deployment Lead (TDL), you will define how OpenAI delivers complex systems to customers, owning how they are built, shipped, and adopted.
This is a founding role with high-trust and high-autonomy, requiring deep technical project management expertise and extreme ownership of outcomes.
Success will be measured first and foremost by impact – deployments that deliver measurable value against customer goals, drive adoption, and become critical to their workflows.
Matching Summary
As a Technical Deployment Lead (TDL), you will define how OpenAI delivers complex systems to customers, owning how they are built, shipped, and adopted.
Skills & Requirements
Must-have
customer-facing technical delivery leadership
AI/LLM systems deployment
translate business outcomes to technical plan
own end-to-end delivery
drive 0→1 prototypes through MVP and scale
field insights to Product and Research
Nice-to-have
high-trust, high-autonomy role
extreme ownership of outcomes
judgment under pressure
strategic thinking and pattern-matching
expertise in major sector
Key Requirements
7+ years of customer-facing technical delivery leadership