OpenAITech Lead Manager, Education
OpenAI is hiring a Tech Lead Manager, Education for a remote role open to applicants in United States. It pays $401k-$445k a year and Level rates it ; you can apply on OpenAI.
Level's read on this job
- On Level's scale, this role is Builds AI ●●●●: the job is building AI systems.
- This is listed as a remote role.
- The posting mentions AI research, people management and full stack development among its tools and skills.
- Level classes it as a lead role.
- OpenAI has 793 other open roles on Level.
AI in this role
Lead a team of engineers building AI-native learning experiences and educational tools.
About the Team
OpenAI’s Education team is building products that advance how people learn with AI. The team works across higher education institutions, K-12 districts, and country-level partnerships, including applied research on how AI affects learning and cognitive outcomes.
The team owns owns ChatGPT Edu, ChatGPT for Teachers, and related product/research work. The team partners closely with go-to-market, research, Consumer Learning, and model teams to turn education-specific insights into product experiences that can improve ChatGPT more broadly.
Some of our recent work:
About the Role
We’re looking for a hands-on Tech Lead Manager to lead and manage a team of senior full-stack engineers building AI-native learning experiences in ChatGPT. This person will combine technical execution, product judgment, and people leadership: they will write and ship code, manage engineers, and help shape the product direction for how students and Educators use AI.
In This Role, You Will
Lead and manage a team of three senior full-stack engineers.
Build product experiences for ChatGPT Education, ChatGPT for Teachers, and AI-native learning workflows.
Partner with research teams on field studies, randomized control trials, classifiers, data pipelines, and cognitive-outcome measurement.
Collaborate with Consumer Learning and model teams to translate education insights into broader ChatGPT behavior and product improvements.
Drive execution across product, engineering, research, go-to-market, and partner teams.
Help define product strategy, priorities, and delivery plans for a new product pod.
You Might Thrive In This Role If You
Have several years of direct people-management experience with engineers.
Are still highly technical and comfortable doing IC engineering work.
Have strong product sense and can operate like a GM for a focused product area.
Can lead senior engineers with credibility and clear technical direction.
Are effective at cross-functional influence, communication, and project management.
Are genuinely interested in education, learning science, and how AI can improve learning outcomes.
Have experience operating in a large, complex technology organization.
Nice To Have
Experience in education, learning products, learning science, or edtech.
Experience across both larger technology companies and startup-like environments.
Experience building products that connect research, data pipelines, and user-facing product experiences.
Experience with B2B products that can later scale into broader consumer workflows.
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.
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How we rate this
Tech Lead Manager, Education at OpenAI rates 85 out of 100 for how much of the daily work is AI. That makes it Builds AI (AI Level 4 of 4). The level is about AI in the job, not seniority.
Builds AI. The job is building AI systems.
- ●●●● Builds AI80 to 100
- ●●●○ Works on AI60 to 79
- ●●○○ Uses AI40 to 59
- ●○○○ Little AI0 to 39
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- Tell me about a research question you investigated. What did you find?
- Tell me about a project where people management was part of your work. What did you do?
- Tell me about a project where full stack development was part of your work. What did you do?
- Tell me about a project where learning science was part of your work. What did you do?
- Tell me about a project where product strategy was part of your work. What did you do?
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- List these exact terms on your resume: AI Research, People Management, Full Stack Development, Learning Science, and Product Strategy. An applicant tracking system matches the wording, not the idea.
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- Lead with what you built, trained or shipped. This role is judged on the AI system itself, not the tools around it.
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