Technical Community Manager, Campus Leaders

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About OpenAI

OpenAI’s mission is to ensure that general-purpose artificial intelligence benefits all of humanity. We build models and products that help people learn, create, and solve problems—and we work to do so safely and responsibly.

About the Team

OpenAI’s community team builds direct relationships and channels with people who use our tech, then amplifies their stories and use cases so peers can learn from them and channels their insights to our product and research teams. More than 900 million people use our tools each week.

Role summary

We’re hiring a full-time program and community manager to shape how we show up on college campuses where usage of our tools is most advanced. This person will own relationships with a small group of campuses with dense populations of builders and future startup founders, shape engagement strategy for those campuses, align that strategy with cross-functional teams, and provide personalized support to student leaders.

Responsibilities

• Identify and develop deep relationships with standout student leaders at leading global campuses.
• Learn the culture, priorities, and opportunities unique to each campus and identify where OpenAI can provide the most value.
• Support campus leaders in planning semester strategy, recruiting members, and building sustainable engagement on campus.
• Serve as the primary point of contact between OpenAI and frontier campus chapters, helping students navigate resources, opportunities, and support.
• Partner with chapter leaders and groups to design and execute events, workshops, and campus activations.
• Design and refine engagement formats that help students build and stay up to date with OpenAI tools.
• Connect campus leaders with relevant OpenAI teams, speakers, programs, partners and opportunities.
• Coach and support campus leaders to grow communities and programs; foster a network among campus leaders.
• Capture insights, playbooks, and best practices from frontier campuses and translate them into resources for the broader network.
• Surface exceptional students, projects, and community initiatives to relevant teams across OpenAI.
• Gather feedback from campus communities and share insights that inform product, education, and community strategy.
• Continuously strengthen the network of student leaders shaping how the next generation learns, builds, and collaborates with AI.

Requirements (Must-haves)

• Deep knowledge of AI tools, including ChatGPT, Codex, and OpenAI APIs, and coding ability; comfortable helping students build, debug, prototype, and apply OpenAI products in highly technical projects.
• Has personally built, prototyped, or shipped projects using AI tools, APIs, agents, coding assistants, or related developer workflows.
• Exceptional communication skills and ability to build trusting relationships with ambitious, highly capable people.
• Strong project and program management skills, with experience coordinating events, initiatives, or communities involving multiple stakeholders.
• Demonstrated ability to operate independently, exercise good judgment, and navigate ambiguity.
• Strong pulse on AI-native builder culture; actively follows and participates in technical builder communities and can identify standout students, projects, and communities early.
• Experience designing and executing community programs, events, workshops, fellowships, ambassador programs, or similar initiatives.
• Strong organizational skills and attention to detail; ability to manage multiple campus relationships simultaneously.

Nice-to-haves

• Experience working with university students, campus organizations, startups, research communities, and/or developer ecosystems.
• Experience running hackathons, conferences, workshops, or other community-driven events.
• Experience gathering community insights and translating them into recommendations for product, education, or marketing teams.
• Experience creating community content, newsletters, guides, or playbooks.
• Existing relationships within leading universities, student organizations, research communities, or entrepreneurial ecosystems.

Benefits

• Medical, dental, and vision insurance with employer contributions to Health Savings Accounts.
• Pre-tax accounts for Health FSA, Dependent Care FSA, and commuter expenses.
• 401(k) retirement plan with employer match.
• Paid parental leave and paid medical/caregiver leave.
• Paid time off and 13+ paid company holidays.
• 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 such as charitable donation matching and wellness stipends.

Location & Work Type

• Primary location: San Francisco, United States
• Secondary location: New York City, United States
• Workplace type: Hybrid
• Employment type: Full-time