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OpenAI

Strategy & Operations, Support

OpenAI is hiring a Strategy & Operations, Support in San Francisco, United States. It pays $216k-$310k a year and Level rates it ; you can apply on OpenAI.

Level's read on this job

  • On Level's scale, this role is Works on AI ●●●○: the daily work is on AI products, without building the model.
  • Tools and skills the posting cites include AI research, operations strategy and customer support.
  • Level classifies it as a senior role.
  • Level lists 795 other open roles at OpenAI.

AI in this role

Drive strategic and operational initiatives for OpenAI's support organization, focusing on AI automation and scaling customer experience.

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About the Team

The User Operations team (Support) is central to ensuring that our customers' experience with our products is nothing short of exceptional. We resolve complex issues, provide technical guidance, and support customers in maximizing value and adoption from deploying our products. We work closely with Sales, Technical Success, Product, Engineering and others to deliver the best possible experience to our customers at scale. OpenAI's customers represent a range of diverse backgrounds and maturity, from early-stage startups to established global enterprises.

About the Role

We are seeking a dynamic support strategy operator to drive strategic and operational initiatives across OpenAI’s customer support/user operations landscape. In this role, you will work closely with leaders in User Operations and across the company to help scale, mature, and optimize our support operations. Your work will span a range of strategic initiatives aimed at enhancing the customer experience and driving operational excellence, ensuring that our support organization can sustainably scale with the business's growth.

You’ll be responsible for deeply understanding our organization and priorities – where we’re at, where we’re going – and will work relentlessly towards planning and executing on our vision to provide best-in-class support. This role is not “creating and executing playbooks”. AI has and will continue to fundamentally change the customer experience and the way we build tools and organizations; this role requires a proactive, strategic planner and executor that can think ten steps ahead, defining the future of customer support at OpenAI and in the world.

 

In this role, you will:

  • Drive the ideation and operationalization of new support systems, processes, and programs.

  • Collaborate with leaders to identify, evaluate, and prioritize new strategic and operational initiatives, ensuring alignment with company goals and unique organizational objectives

  • Work with product, engineering, and data teams to uncover and address key operational challenges and growth/scaling opportunities within the support organization, such as automation, process optimization, and enhanced self-service options.

  • Deep dive into the critical drivers of our support operations and identifying opportunities for optimization and innovation.

  • Partner with other members of the go-to-market organization, product, and partnerships to launch new initiatives – helping think through strategic impacts, executing on operational components, and driving change management.

     

You might thrive in this role if you:

  • Have 8+ years of experience in operations, strategy, and consulting, with at least 5 years of experience building and leading customer-facing operations. You have a history of high impact work in a technical environment.

  • Are non-traditional – this role will require leveraging technology and concepts that are not yet established in the world (some of which you will produce yourself).

  • Are comfortable operating at all altitudes – discussing strategy and vision with executives, and troubleshooting operations with individual contributors.

  • Have extensive experience in taking end-to-end ownership of large, ambiguous problems, and breaking them down into clear, actionable plans.

  • Have direct experience engaging with executives and senior leaders to influence and drive strategic decisions.

  • Are highly analytical, with strong skills in data modeling and operational forecasting to drive insights and decision-making.

  • Possess excellent communication and collaboration skills and are skilled in influencing stakeholders across all levels of the organization.

  • Thrive in chaos, and relentlessly drive program structure to enable the team.

  • Have a passion for technology, AI, and customer service, and are enthusiastic about the transformative impact of AI on business and society.

     

About OpenAI

OpenAI is an AI research and deployment company dedicated to ensuring that general-purpose artificial intelligence benefits all of humanity. We push the boundaries of the capabilities of AI systems and seek to safely deploy them to the world through our products. AI is an extremely powerful tool that must be created with safety and human needs at its core, and to achieve our mission, we must encompass and value the many different perspectives, voices, and experiences that form the full spectrum of humanity. 

We are an equal opportunity employer, and we do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, age, veteran status, disability, genetic information, or other applicable legally protected characteristic.

For additional information, please see OpenAI’s Affirmative Action and Equal Employment Opportunity Policy Statement.

Background checks for applicants will be administered in accordance with applicable law, and qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment consistent with those laws, including the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers, and the California Fair Chance Act, for US-based candidates. For unincorporated Los Angeles County workers: we reasonably believe that criminal history may have a direct, adverse and negative relationship with the following job duties, potentially resulting in the withdrawal of a conditional offer of employment: protect computer hardware entrusted to you from theft, loss or damage; return all computer hardware in your possession (including the data contained therein) upon termination of employment or end of assignment; and maintain the confidentiality of proprietary, confidential, and non-public information. In addition, job duties require access to secure and protected information technology systems and related data security obligations.

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How we rate this

Strategy & Operations, Support at OpenAI rates 65 out of 100 for how much of the daily work is AI. That makes it Works on AI (AI Level 3 of 4). The level is about AI in the job, not seniority.

Classification

Works on AI. The daily work is on AI products, without building the model.

  1. ●●●● Builds AI80 to 100
  2. ●●●○ Works on AI60 to 79
  3. ●●○○ Uses AI40 to 59
  4. ●○○○ Little AI0 to 39

Levels come from how often the tools, models and workflows of the role are named in the posting itself. Read the description and count the AI tools, models and workflows it names.

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Skills and AI tools this role asks for

AI ResearchOperations StrategyCustomer SupportProcess OptimizationAutomation

Questions you could be asked

  1. Tell me about a research question you investigated. What did you find?
  2. Tell me about a project where operations strategy was part of your work. What did you do?
  3. Tell me about a project where customer support was part of your work. What did you do?
  4. Tell me about a project where process optimization was part of your work. What did you do?
  5. Tell me about a project where automation was part of your work. What did you do?

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  • List these exact terms on your resume: AI Research, Operations Strategy, Customer Support, Process Optimization, and Automation. An applicant tracking system matches the wording, not the idea.
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  • Show where AI is part of your daily process, not a one-off project. This role expects it to be a running habit.

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