People Innovation Labs, Tech Lead Manager

About the Team

At OpenAI, we’re building the connective tissue between our mission and our people. People Innovation Labs is a fast-moving engineering team embedded in the People organization, focused on rethinking how we find and retain the best talent and empower everyone to do their best work. From recruiting to culture, we’re designing systems that give our People Team a significant edge by infusing OpenAI’s models and first-principles thinking into every aspect of our work. Our projects range from greenfield 0-1 products like OpenHouse (our internal knowledge hub) to AI-powered automations and scalable recruiting tools. We’re defining the future of work at OpenAI, creating a blueprint for how AI can supercharge productivity, culture, and innovation.

In this role, you will:

• Lead, mentor, and grow a team of engineers, fostering a culture of high impact, collaboration, and continuous learning.

• Drive technical vision, set priorities, and ensure the successful delivery of high-quality people products from ideation to execution.

• Work cross-functionally with HR, Recruiting, Design, Product, and Research teams to deeply understand business needs and design scalable, AI-powered solutions.

• Innovate by applying OpenAI’s models and technologies to solve high-leverage challenges in recruiting, culture, and productivity.

• Build robust systems and tools that increase hiring velocity, improve operational efficiency, and elevate the overall employee experience.

• Own and refine the full product lifecycle, balancing immediate delivery with long-term investments and technical excellence.
  

You might thrive in this role if you:

• Have engineering management or technical leadership experience, with a track record of delivering impactful products.

• Bring full-stack engineering expertise and a passion for building scalable SaaS solutions.

• Have domain knowledge in people products (think recruiting, HR tech, learning & development) or SaaS products in adjacent verticals like support, sales or automation.

• Are skilled at hiring, developing, and retaining high-performing engineering teams.

• Are a natural cross-functional collaborator, skilled at balancing diverse stakeholder needs and translating them into impactful technical solutions.

• Have product instincts and experience building products from 0→1, with a focus on collaborating with users to find product-market fit and scaling effectively.

• Bring an entrepreneurial mindset, with a bias toward experimentation and iteration in fast-moving environments.

• Bonus: Have experience in AI/ML, or at least a deep curiosity to learn how these technologies can revolutionize the future of work.

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.

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