Technical Deployment Lead (AI)

Location: Hybrid in Washington, D.C., New York, or San Francisco, United States; three days per week in the office, up to 50% travel, and possible work at secure customer facilities. Relocation assistance is available.

Salary: $170K–$400K plus equity.

Company

hirify.global is the deployment arm of OpenAI, delivering enterprise AI transformation and solutions built with OpenAI models and products.

What you will do

• Own technical delivery plans, translating customer business objectives into milestones, dependencies, acceptance criteria, and operating rhythms.
• Coordinate day-to-day execution across DeployCo, OpenAI, customer engineers, researchers, Product, and customer technical teams.
• Map customer workflows, shape requirements, align technical plans with success criteria, and drive production adoption.
• Move prototypes through MVP, production readiness, launch, and scale while managing scope, sequencing, resourcing, quality, risks, and blockers.
• Define value cases, baselines, KPIs, adoption tracking, and sponsor readouts.
• Codify reusable delivery patterns, implementation playbooks, evaluations, and field insights while accounting for access approvals, secure-facility scheduling, customer security, infrastructure, data, connectivity, tooling, and access restrictions.

Requirements

• 5+ years of customer-facing technical delivery, technical program management, deployment, consulting, solutions engineering, or implementation leadership experience.
• Experience leading complex, ambiguous, cross-functional technical projects requiring close coordination and fast decision-making.
• Technical fluency to pressure-test architectures, integration plans, data and workflow constraints, and production readiness.
• Ability to move between system-level strategy and execution-level detail, from executive objectives to ticket-level dependencies.
• Clear communication with business leaders, technical teams, and customer stakeholders, including tradeoffs involving risk, scope, speed, and adoption.
• Strong customer empathy and willingness to spend time onsite with customers.
• Practical interest or experience in AI/LLM systems and willingness to learn solution patterns, evaluation practices, and production pitfalls.
• Ability to operate effectively in high-ambiguity environments and structure complex work into visible, shippable outcomes.
• Experience with government, national-security, or other customers operating under clearance and access constraints; ability to balance delivery momentum with customer security requirements.
• Active U.S. government security clearance required; candidates must be able to maintain the clearance and obtain customer-specific access.

Nice to have

• TS/SCI with polygraph.

Culture & Benefits

• Hybrid work model with three days per week in the office.
• Relocation assistance.
• Equity in addition to salary.
• Work on enterprise AI deployments and complex customer transformation challenges.
• Office and secure customer-site arrangements discussed case by case.