AI Success Engineer - US Remote

at OpenAI
USD 192,000 per year
MIDDLE
✅ Remote
✅ Relocation

Used Tools & Technologies

Not specified

Required Skills & Competences

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Details

OpenAI’s AI Success Engineer team partners with organizations to translate cutting‑edge AI into measurable business value. The role is the primary post‑sales technical point of contact for a portfolio of customers and blends technical leadership, program management, customer advisory, and product influence. This is a remote role based in the United States.

Responsibilities

  • Lead the technical relationship for post‑sale customers and act as their trusted advisor on deployment, adoption, and value realization.
  • Own account health, adoption velocity, and ongoing technical deployment and success across your portfolio.
  • Conduct technical enablement and configuration sessions across OpenAI’s product portfolio.
  • Identify and validate use cases by embedding with customer teams to understand workflows and pain points.
  • Lead account‑level coordination across multiple workstreams, including product activation, change management, rollout and deployment planning.
  • Build relationships with executive sponsors and technical stakeholders and align business goals with OpenAI capabilities.
  • Translate customer objectives into an actionable adoption roadmap with sequencing, milestones, and KPIs.
  • Partner with Solutions Architecture, Product, Engineering, and Research to surface customer feedback, field patterns, and technical blockers.
  • Guide value realization and measure impact through baselines, KPI definition, and post‑deployment reporting.
  • Facilitate workshops on use case design, adoption best practices, champion building, and internal enablement.
  • Help drive expansions by identifying opportunities where OpenAI’s platform can power new workflows or lines of business.
  • Serve as technical advisor for existing customer implementations, guiding and optimizing account setup and configuration.

Requirements

  • 8+ years of experience in technical customer‑facing roles such as technical account management, GenAI consulting, solutions architecture, technical delivery leadership, or enterprise SaaS adoption.
  • Deep, hands‑on knowledge of OpenAI product capabilities, APIs, SDKs, connectors, and common integration patterns.
  • Ability to explain model behavior, limitations, technical tradeoffs, embeddings, retrieval augmentation, and approaches to fine‑tuning or custom model usage.
  • Ability to translate technical concepts into clear business language and demonstrate strategic impact of AI technologies.
  • Comfortable embedding with customers to map workflows, identify requirements, and diagnose adoption challenges.
  • Strong project and program management instincts; able to lead multi‑workstream initiatives with clarity and structure.
  • Experience partnering with C‑level stakeholders and diving deep with technical teams.
  • High ownership, ability to make fast decisions, and manage context switching and dynamic customer needs.
  • Proven record of driving technical deployments and owning adoption/value for large enterprise customers with complex environments and multiple stakeholders.

Benefits

  • Base pay (listed): $192,000 (may vary by market and experience). Offers equity and potential performance‑related bonuses where eligible.
  • Medical, dental, and vision insurance with employer contributions to Health Savings Accounts.
  • Pre‑tax accounts (Health FSA, Dependent Care FSA, commuter accounts).
  • 401(k) retirement plan with employer match.
  • Paid parental leave and paid medical/caregiver leave.
  • Flexible PTO and paid company holidays and office closures; paid sick or safe time as required by law.
  • Mental health and wellness support; employer‑paid basic life and disability coverage.
  • Annual learning and development stipend.
  • Daily meals in offices and meal delivery credits as eligible.
  • Relocation support for eligible employees.
  • Additional taxable fringe benefits (charitable donation matching, wellness stipends) and other benefits details provided during hiring.

Additional Notes

  • This role partners closely with Sales, Solutions Architecture, Product, and Research.
  • Background checks conducted in accordance with applicable law for US‑based candidates.
  • OpenAI is an equal opportunity employer and provides reasonable accommodations for applicants with disabilities.