AI Deployment Manager (Builder) - Tokyo

About the Team The AI Deployment Management (ADM) team enables organizations to turn OpenAI products into real, sustained impact through world-class enablement and training execution. Our mission is to help customers successfully adopt and operationalize AI across their organizations. We partner with enterprises to translate the potential of OpenAI’s technology into durable capability—through structured training, technical enablement, and scalable deployment programs. By helping customers move from experimentation to production, the ADM team accelerates time-to-value, deepens product adoption, and helps make OpenAI indispensable to how organizations work. About the Role The AI Deployment Manager role is a specialist post-sales enablement role focused on delivering high-impact enablement and adoption services across OpenAI’s product suite. This role is responsible for designing and delivering technical enablement experiences that support a repeatable adoption framework– driving sustained activation, expanding breadth and depth of usage, and measurable business value across OpenAI’s product suite, including ChatGPT Enterprise, Codex, Agents, and the API. This includes helping customers understand and correctly apply the deployment harnesses, evaluation layers, and operational controls required for reliable use. This role blends deep technical fluency, instructional design, and customer advisory. You will lead live trainings, workshops, and adoption interventions for audiences ranging from hands-on builders to executive leaders, helping customers understand not just what OpenAI’s products can do, but how to use them effectively in real-world contexts. Success in this role means accelerating customer confidence, increasing product adoption, supporting successful launches of new product capabilities, and helping customers translate technical features into tangible outcomes. This role is based in our Tokyo Office. We use a hybrid work model of 3 days in the office per week and offer relocation assistance to new employees. In this role, you will: - Own the technical enablement of OpenAI products, including ChatGPT Enterprise, Codex, Agents, and API capabilities, helping define effective enablement patterns that support adoption across customer segments - Lead customer training and enablement across the full customer lifecycle, from initial onboarding through expansion, optimization, and long-term adoption. - Design and deliver high-impact training engagements, including onboarding sessions, advanced capability trainings, executive briefings, hackathons, and hands-on workshops for audiences ranging from senior leaders to working teams. - Drive customer activation, sustained usage, and measurable business value through structured enablement and deployment programs designed for durable adoption at scale - Partner closely with Sales, AI Success Engineers, Solutions Engineering, and Product teams to ensure seamless handoff from pre- to post-sale and consistent customer experience. - Develop and refine reusable training assets, playbooks, and best practices based on patterns observed across customers and regions. - Gather customer feedback from training and enablement engagements, synthesize themes across accounts, and relay insights to internal stakeholders to inform product and program improvements. You’ll thrive in this role if you: - Have 4+ years of experience in customer-facing or instructional roles, engaging C-level and senior technical audiences in complex enterprise environments. - Possess exceptional presentation and communication skills, particularly when conveying the value of technical concepts clearly to senior and executive-level audiences. - Strong technical depth across coding, agents, and APIs, with a practical understanding of how AI systems are built, evaluated, and operated in production, including RAG, evaluation strategies, fine-tuning, and key tradeoffs. - Proven experience leading structured technical trainings, such as API bootcamps, workshops, or enablement sessions, with the ability to design learning journeys, handle live questions, and reason through problems in real time. - Strong ability to connect technical features and capabilities to concrete business outcomes such as productivity, efficiency, cost reduction, risk mitigation, or revenue impact. - Have a humble attitude, an eagerness to help others, and a desire to pick up whatever knowledge you're missing to make both your team and our customers succeed. - Comfortable thinking on their feet in live customer settings, adapting quickly to new information, shifting priorities, and real-time questions while maintaining clarity, ownership, and momentum. - Are personally committed to fostering the safe and ethical evolution of AI. 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

4+ years of experience in customer-facing or instructional roles, engaging C-level and senior technical audiences in complex enterprise environments. Exceptional presentation and communication skills, especially when conveying the value of technical concepts to senior/executive audiences. Strong technical depth across coding, agents, and APIs, with practical understanding of how AI systems are built, evaluated, and operated in production (including RAG, evaluation strategies, fine-tuning, and key tradeoffs). Proven experience leading structured technical trainings (e.g., API bootcamps, workshops, enablement sessions) with ability to design learning journeys, handle live questions, and reason through problems in real time. Ability to connect technical features to concrete business outcomes such as productivity, efficiency, cost reduction, risk mitigation, or revenue impact. Willingness to learn and adapt in live customer settings and a commitment to safe and ethical AI practices.