
Manager, Technical Deployment Leads (TDL), Forward Deployed Engineering (FDE)
OpenAI
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Job details
- Company
- OpenAI
- Location
- United States
- Remote
- Yes
- Field
- Product
- Source
- via Himalayas
Posted
April 16, 2026
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About this role
As a Technical Deployment Lead Manager (TDL Manager) in the Forward Deployed Engineering (FDE) team, you will lead and grow a team of TDLs delivering production systems with frontier models, own end-to-end delivery outcomes, and define how we staff and support field teams that can scale without added complexity.
Requirements
- 8+ years of customer-facing technical delivery leadership
- 2+ years managing high-performing technical delivery, program management, or customer engineering teams
- Technical fluency and sharp sequencing judgment
- Ability to simplify complex work and make fast, sound decisions under pressure
- Ability to elevate team performance through clarity, not process
Benefits
- Relocation assistance
Originally posted on Himalayas
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