OpenAI

Technology

DeveloperEducationLead

$198–335k San Francisco, California, United States FULL TIME
Market Sentiment
HIGH DEMAND

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The Brief

“Developer Education Lead at OpenAI. Skills: Developer education, AI products, Frontier AI. Own the education strategy for OpenAI's product ecosystem. Build and manage an education roadmap”

What You'll Achieve.

Reflect real understanding; Reflect activation; Reflect adoption; Reflect durable AI fluency

Industry & Context.

Technology
Problems you'll solve

Synthesize ambiguous inputs

What They're Looking For.

Must Have

7+ years of experience in developer education, 7+ years of experience in product education, 7+ years of experience in developer relations, 7+ years of experience in technical content strategy, 7+ years of experience in product marketing, 7+ years of experience in instructional design, Experience owning education roadmaps end to end, Experience owning developer experience roadmaps end to end, Experience owning content strategy roadmaps end to end, Technical fluency to use new AI tools deeply, Ability to work across technical and non-technical stakeholders, Ability to synthesize ambiguous inputs, Ability to turn early product direction into crisp learning experiences, Comfort operating in fast-moving environments

Nice to Have

Experience building educational programs that scale, Experience building content systems that scale, High taste for demos, High taste for examples, High taste for teaching moments, Builder mindset, High agency, Bias toward experimenting with new educational formats

What You'll Do.

Own the education strategy for OpenAI's product ecosystem

Build and manage an education roadmap

Create scalable educational programs

Create scalable demos

Create scalable curricula

Create scalable workshops

Create scalable launch materials

Create scalable interactive experiences

Design learning journeys for broad audiences

Partner with product teams

Partner with research teams

Partner with engineering teams

Partner with go-to-market teams

Partner with communications teams

Partner with community teams

Experiment with new formats for education

Use OpenAI's own products as teaching surfaces

Create examples where people learn by building

Create examples where people learn by exploring

Create examples where people learn by prompting

Create examples where people learn by coding

Create examples where people learn by analyzing

Create examples where people learn by automating

Establish feedback loops

Establish content audits

Establish quality bars

Define and track success metrics

How You'll Work.

Team & Collaboration

Product teams; Engineering teams; Research teams; Go-to-market teams; Communications teams; Community teams

Communication Scope

Storytelling; Facilitation

Process & Methodology

Roadmap planning

Full Job Description

ABOUT THE TEAM OpenAI's Developer Experience team helps developers, startups, and organizations around the world understand and build with frontier AI. Our mission is to make it seamless and delightful for builders to integrate AI into applications, workflows, products, and companies, and to give them the tools, resources, examples, and support they need to unlock AI’s full potential. We create inspiring demos, sample applications, technical content, learning experiences, and developer programs that show what is possible with Codex, the OpenAI API platform, ChatGPT, and frontier models like GPT-5.5. The work spans product education, launch storytelling, hands-on teaching, and AI-native examples that help people move from curiosity to real-world fluency. We collaborate closely with product, engineering, research, GTM, communications, and community teams to make the journey from first exposure to production adoption clear, effective, and memorable. As capabilities change quickly, we help users build durable mental models that transfer across products, models, and new ways of working. ABOUT THE ROLE We're looking for a Developer Education Lead to define how people learn to work with OpenAI's products at the frontier of AI. The pace of model and product progress means that what is possible can move faster than what people understand how to use. This role turns that gap into a rigorous, creative education strategy for developers, teams, and organizations learning to build with AI. You will own the strategy for educating builders and organizations across OpenAI's ecosystem, from developers adopting APIs and coding agents to teams learning how ChatGPT, Codex, GPT-5.5, multimodal capabilities, and emerging product surfaces can reshape their work. The goal is not just to explain features - it is to create moments of understanding that help people build new intuition for what AI can do and how to use it responsibly, creatively, and effectively. In this role, you will: - Own t

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