OpenAI

Onboarding & Enablement Program Manager, FDE

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Employer: OpenAI
Location: San Francisco
Seniority: Leadership
Experience asked for: Not stated
Pay band: $177K – $251K
Team: Model Deployment for Business

When we saw it

Posted 2026-03-13 — the date the employer published it
First seen 2026-05-25 — the first scan of ours that found it
Last seen open 2026-05-25
Gone by 2026-07-01 — the first scan that no longer found it
Archived 2026-05-25 — when we saved this copy

Found via OpenAI Careers (Ashby).

From the posting

About the team OpenAI’s Forward Deployed Engineering (FDE) team partners with customers to turn research breakthroughs into production-grade AI systems. FDE sits at the intersection of Product, Engineering, Research, and GTM. We embed deeply with users to solve high-leverage problems and surface patterns that shape our platform. We take frontier capabilities into the real world and translate customer signal into durable solutions, repeatable patterns, and product direction. About the role We’re hiring an Onboarding & Enablement Program Manager to build, run, and evolve the systems that help the FDE team ramp quickly, stay current, and execute consistently as the organization scales. …

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